Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jury heard Warwick had financial worries which caused marital pressures . |
| 2 | Billmaier indicated SunSoft had little difficulty with six of the eight points , non-controversial items such as support of open systems , industry standards interoperability and maintaining ABI compatibility between Solaris and Destiny . |
| 3 | For her stepmother to tell her meant that she and her father must sometimes talk about her , and that her father had undoubtedly on at least one occasion said that he thought Artemis had some ability . |
| 4 | I knew Nigel had other plans . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew Faye had some complications and needed a nurse — Tom mentioned it the other day — but I had no idea you were a sort of watchdog as well . |
| 6 | I thought Collimore had good break three against two and I thought the the ball he should have played he should have measured a ball into er Kingsley Black 's stride . |
| 7 | ‘ Who else knew Nicola had this information ? ’ |
| 8 | A pity really , as I thought Gazelle had great potential with a few modifications . |
| 9 | A colleague at the Maze , said : ‘ We all knew Susan had matrimonial problems but we did n't suspect she was so depressed . |
| 10 | I thought Macao had greater sophistication — certainly the casino hotels offered a more ambitious modern architecture than anything I could see in this furred heart of a moribund empire . |
| 11 | The man who shot Richard had grey hair and was wearing a black leather jacket , a blue jumper and jeans . |
| 12 | Who said Orkney had horizontal rain ? |
| 13 | I think Jeanette said Tom had that problem cos he did n't speak until he was about two and a half and they thought he was you know a bit daft |
| 14 | But he stopped short of setting up a ‘ shadow government ’ before the handover , a previously threatened step that would undermine the authority of the colonial government and denied China had any intention to seize the colony back before 1997 . |
| 15 | Mr Record said Britannia had net debts of £40m and gearing of 110 per cent . |
| 16 | Prosecuting , Gareth Davies said Harbison had excess alcohol in his breath when he was stopped in his car by police on the A45 between Barrow and Bury St Edmunds . |
| 17 | Miss Sue Rutherford , marketing director for Burton Property Trust , said Darlington had fewer traffic and parking problems than most other major town centres . |
| 18 | Mark Whitehall , defending , said Arthurs had two Achilles ' heels — ‘ his love for his children and his bad temper ’ . |