Example sentences of "[coord] had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A separate Harmsworth chain owned a morning and three evenings , and United Newspapers controlled or had a major interest in six . |
| 2 | Such calls are usually of an offensive sexual nature , e.g. heavy breathers and also come under point 3 , but could be offensive in other ways , e.g. telling a woman that her dead husband was having an affair , was homosexual or had a criminal record etc . |
| 3 | The median age divides the women into two equal size groups ; one half of the women first married ( or had a first birth ) at a younger and one half at an older age . |
| 4 | Business friends , golfing partners , members of your fucking club , whoever 's on the board of your companies , anyone you 've made a phone call to , or had a confidential chat with , anyone who 's asked for help , or given it . |
| 5 | ‘ Whether you 've enjoyed quick service in a restaurant or had a great hair-do , giving a cash token lets people know their talents are n't taken for granted . ’ |
| 6 | Whoever had killed Don Roberto had known him or had a first-rate introduction because there were no signs of violence other than the knife wound and Don Roberto had given his staff time off . |
| 7 | Those who had entered the country before May 15 , 1991 , were entitled to present documentation showing tthat hey either were employed or had a viable project to set up a business . |
| 8 | Very often , if they lost their income or savings , or had a bad marriage , or developed a serious organic disease , they did recover from their neuroses . |
| 9 | It is strange therefore that the signal box instruments revealed it as clear , the signal must have been at green , or had a heavy weight been lying across the signal wire ? |
| 10 | The corners of his mouth bit inward deeply ; it was sometimes difficult to know whether he smiled , or had a wry taste on his tongue . |
| 11 | We had failed to locate a single prahu master , or " nakoda " , who had been anywhere near them , or had the slightest interest in doing so , and it was now so late in the west monsoon that there only remained another six weeks before we would no longer be able to depart without risking the winds dying and starting to reverse themselves before we had reached our destination . |
| 12 | It was recognized that a work of literature might employ , to advance its serious purpose , a style which resembled , or had the same effect as , the pornographer 's : here the jury was to be assisted to draw the line by experts who would offer judgments as to the degree of importance the article represented in its particular discipline . |
| 13 | This action is available if , at the time of the conversion , the plaintiff was in possession of the goods ( The Jag-Shakti [ 1986 ] 1 AC 337 ) or had an immediate right of possession of them . |
| 14 | However , many academic courses have or had an implicit point of reference in school-teaching , and many are organized in institutes or professional or subject associations . |
| 15 | The ECSC had not conditioned the European public in favour of supranationalism , nor had the key interest groups in coal and steel , whether the industries were publicly or privately owned , emerged as a vanguard of European integration . |
| 16 | Nor had the Dutch republic , still a great commercial force in the Baltic . |
| 17 | Nor had the sudden coolness between himself and Mrs J. Roscoe escaped most of the other tourists ; indeed , this development was proving one of the few topics of conversation as the coach accelerated along the dual carriageway towards Woodstock . |
| 18 | Nor had the ten hour day yet come to pass . |
| 19 | Sam was the ‘ kingpin' and had every possible racket nicely tied-up . |
| 20 | This was , however , a target of a completely different order , as Benghazi was a large town which would be well guarded and had a civilian population still in occupation . |
| 21 | The girl involved in the case — which echoes the hit film Home Alone — goes to stage school and had a non-speaking part in The Bill . |
| 22 | I decided this had to be done puristically and had a young boy dressed up as a girl in the play . |
| 23 | This creature superficially resembled the modern amphioxus and had a bilobed head and pair of tentacles , as well as myotomes and a notochord which , unlike the amphioxus , appears not to have extended to the anterior . |
| 24 | Leeds defeated Rangers 2-0 at Elland Road and had a no-scoring draw at Ibrox , and went on to win the competition . |
| 25 | But he was very systematic in his descriptions and had a rare gift for the significant detail . |
| 26 | It is true that the oil crisis dealt an important blow to the functioning of the system and had a major impact on the form and timing of the crisis — constituting a trigger for the crash which separates the period of overheating from the subsequent one of mass unemployment and stagnation . |
| 27 | He loved radio , the cinema , and the theatre and had a wide knowledge of classical music , playing the violin , cello , and viola at Perkin 's musical parties in Manchester . |
| 28 | Lord Dulverton was a leading wildlife campaigner and forester and had a lifelong dedication to forestry and to deer . |
| 29 | He said he was feeling sick and numb and had a crushing pain . |
| 30 | Tall , he suffered the sunken chest of a consumptive , and had a hooked nose and eyes that , though hidden behind dark lids , were too big for his face — it was the starving poet look that enslaved self-sacrificial women . |