Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I more or less had a crew cut . |
| 2 | By this time the Hintons more or less had a monopoly on sugar processing , and more and more land was being turned over to sugarcane production . |
| 3 | That was the best way to find out how good you were at your job , whether you could regard yourself as being on a par with the best — or still had a lot to learn . |
| 4 | He was pretty non commital about taking the England job saying that England were ‘ still in the WC & still had a manager and a good one at that ’ . |
| 5 | Or even had a holiday job during the summer . |
| 6 | Cook was appointed agent for Nile passenger traffic by the Khedive of Egypt in 1870 and eventually had a fleet of seventeen large vessels and about thirty-three smaller dahabeeyahs and pinnaces . |
| 7 | Indeed , Kenny only missed one match in three seasons 1976–79 ( when he missed a train to Bristol Rovers ! ) , and altogether had a run of 156 league games with just that one omission . |
| 8 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 9 | ‘ Defensively we were pretty sound , and only had a couple of lapses . ’ |
| 10 | He enjoyed the party , danced , drank and generally had a whale of a time . |
| 11 | ‘ I gave them £10 a year for it , and soon had a chain of shops . |
| 12 | Instead he opened the bowling with Garner and soon had a wicket . |
| 13 | By then his friend was sweating , breathing rapidly and foaming at the mouth , and finally had a fit . |
| 14 | He kept the flat tidy while Robyn was out doing good works , and always had a cup of cocoa or a bowl of soup ready for her when she returned home , tired but invariably triumphant . |
| 15 | Newcastle still enjoyed the King 's approval and still had a majority in the Commons , but he resigned because he realized that nobody could provide an adequate answer to Pitt 's attacks . |
| 16 | While she was deciding whether to support the Denver Broncos or the Pittsburgh Pederasts ( whatever ) , I sneaked into the bedroom and nearly had a heart attack to find a three-foot Paddington Bear propped up on the pillow . |
| 17 | They used the concept of place value and also had a symbol for zero . |
| 18 | The PC60 Massager was gentler than the Wahl model , and also had a choice of six heads . |
| 19 | So , after a very busy two more terms at the Royal College in which I gave my first recital , and also had a chance of playing the Beethoven Concerto No. 4 in G major at one of the Patron 's Fund Concerts with Adrian Boult as conductor , I left the College and came up to Oxford in October 1924 . |
| 20 | Someone I 'd say who was probably almost as good a guitar player and also had a lot of mystique about him , although he was never as big as Jimi , is Johnny Winter . |
| 21 | He 'd realized a long time ago that he 'd married a woman who cuddled complete strangers in the street and probably had a season ticket for West Ham in her handbag . |
| 22 | They 'd visited the old Mrs Scamp and then so had I and all I 'd found out was that she was Jo 's mother-in-law and probably had a picture of Hitler on her bedside table . |
| 23 | Wordsworth had some idea of what was going on , as he had prepared himself for this second visit by reading pamphlets , and probably had a letter of introduction to Brissot ; but at first he was only sentimentally affected by the ideals of the Revolution . |
| 24 | Israel Hands could move about and now had a weapon , and he was going to try to kill me . |
| 25 | His most important contact was Hayling , who had left Ford in 1983 and now had a job monitoring multinational companies in the GLC 's Industry and Employment Branch . |
| 26 | Oldham took advantage of the nervousness in the Leeds game and even had a goal disallowed on a marginal offside decision . |
| 27 | Even so , many succeeded in establishing a relationship similar to a heterosexual marriage , and Hanns Ebensten believes that ‘ had he not been a homosexual , John would have had the same occasional hours of despair and misery , and maybe had a succession of failing marriages and affairs . |
| 28 | Deemed delicious , he ate the lot and then had a cheese omelette and pronounced himself satisfied , having only had a nasty old British rail sandwich en route . |
| 29 | ‘ That wis my mother 's name , Goad rest her soul , ’ said the man for the fourth time and then had a flash of inspiration . |
| 30 | This operation ( 1960 ) seriously delayed him , for it left one eye permanently damaged , and he was in the Purey-Cust nursing home by the minster in York and then had a convalescence of several weeks . |