Example sentences of "[vb past] they had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 2 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 3 | As the denomination most solidly based in the countryside , they also realized they had little choice in the thousands of new streets with their red and yellow brick terraces that were covering England 's acres . |
| 4 | Many students realised they had little hope of going abroad and sought instead other escape routes from their situation . |
| 5 | Mr Hook pointed out many of the Division One sides were concentrated round the south-east , which meant they had less travelling expenses . |
| 6 | They were helped by their post-war cost advantages — rapid reconstruction at home meant they had newer facilities than many of their competitors — but they were also pre-disposed towards exporting by the Allies ' confiscation of their pre-war overseas assets . |
| 7 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 8 | The majority of women workers were between 20 and 25 as the management felt they had fewer problems with young women . |
| 9 | It was felt inadvisable , for obvious reasons , to use the dementia sufferers as informants about their family , care or housing circumstances , but , in addition to the OBS and Depression scale questions , they were to be asked whether or not they felt they had sufficient company and adequate help at home . |
| 10 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 11 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 12 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
| 13 | She knew they had different fathers and she knew that in each case there was only a certain number of possibilities , but beyond that all was obscure . |
| 14 | They 're around 30 , some victims thought they had foreign accents . |
| 15 | They 're around 30 , some victims thought they had foreign accents . |
| 16 | Well we thought they had last time we went . |
| 17 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 18 | Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete . |
| 19 | Mr Lewis said they had great sympathy for the flood victims . |
| 20 | You said they had nice boys at Walthamstow . |
| 21 | Other employees said they had favourite sections of the roadshow , and everyone was enthusiastic about the Crystal Maze game that makes up part of the roadshow . |
| 22 | ‘ Then a stewardess said they had another passenger with stomach pains . |
| 23 | Among the most striking of its findings were that all those surveyed said they had more confidence in statements on biotechnology made by environment and consumers ' groups than in those issuing from government or industry . |
| 24 | Oh they had they had big house parties you know . |
| 25 | They were produced in court , where Sergeant Thorpe explained they had new pockets . |