Example sentences of "had several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sudden and massive expansion of the company 's market in the early Seventies had several repercussions . |
| 2 | Well I do n't know what this comes under but last or er last Saturday week I had several complaints about the old market square , you know where er and shop is . |
| 3 | This policy had several advantages . |
| 4 | The civil service had several advantages for a study of this type . |
| 5 | The natural-entity theory had several advantages compared with the contractual and the fiction/concession models of the company . |
| 6 | Although tired and running out of provisions , the English had several advantages : a good defensive position ; a united command ; and the use of an army which had already proved highly successful against the Scots , a combination of archers and dismounted men-at-arms for which , in the conditions prevailing on the day , the French cavalry and the crossbowmen of their Genoese allies proved no match . |
| 7 | Life had several appearances of being on the mend . |
| 8 | Even a cursory glance is enough to show that Picasso had several changes of mind while he was working on the canvas . |
| 9 | This point is proved by describing the injury sustained by the victim , e.g. ‘ He had several bruises about 4 cm in diameter on his face ’ . |
| 10 | The small grass lawn at the front was overgrown , the wooden verandah running from the porch along the front of the house had several posts missing , and the catch on the outer porch door was broken , so that it swung open and shut with a groan and a bang in the ever freshening wind . |
| 11 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 12 | That fact had several consequences . |
| 13 | If we had several surveys at our disposal , and those aged 45 or less were always more prepared to break an unjust law , regardless of when the survey was undertaken , this would be an example of a pure age effect . |
| 14 | Apparently the Disney studio had several requests from chemists for more information on the subject following the actual spectroscopic determination in 1959 . |
| 15 | She had several pairs of sunglasses , perks of Gillman 's , but she had forgotten to bring a pair with her . |
| 16 | Leonard 's mind was such that he always had several ironies in his fire at any one time , even when he was seeking to demythologise some of them ! |
| 17 | But some creatures , notably the American Allosaurus , had several bones in its skull loosely joined together so that the entire skull could yield to pressures of various sorts . |
| 18 | Soon we were all jigging with mackerel feathers , V.I.P. 's included , and before long had several pails of twitching mackerel on deck . |
| 19 | He had several directorships and property interests . |
| 20 | From New Orleans , Burke went to New York where he had several fights before returning to England in 1837 to face William ‘ Bold Bendigo ’ Thompson . |
| 21 | Uncle had several offers but he turned them all down . ’ |
| 22 | They were told Pinnacle were a more efficient distribution company and had several meetings with them . |
| 23 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 24 | In that same month Warcup had several meetings with the king and his ministers , Laurence Hyde , later first Earl of Rochester , and Sir Leoline Jenkins [ qq.v. ] ; and on 4 March the council ordered him £1,500 by privy seal , for his expenses . |
| 25 | Given so much free choice , he had melted immediately , and by good fortune they had several hours alone on the boat . |
| 26 | had several hours and getting bored with the same answer over and over again ! |
| 27 | Theda took Hector to the kitchen and left him with Mrs Elswick to do what he might in the way of cajolery , for she had several morsels of interest to his ever ready stomach , and Theda was obviously not going to take him outside . |
| 28 | McKinsey said it had several programmes in place to build the information technology capability of its consulting staff , and Information Consulting could accelerate the process . |
| 29 | This remark had haunted Khrushchev , who had several times explained he did not mean it literally , and finally got that famous goat . |
| 30 | Kathleen had several times suppressed the thought that if they had telephoned to the doctor half a day earlier , Faith might . |