Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] had " in BNC.

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1 In wounded puzzlement I had a sudden flashback to the time immediately after Dunkirk , when Leslie had referred to the projected formation of a parachute corps , and to service in it as ‘ absolute certain death ’ in a ‘ suicide squad ’ .
2 I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin .
3 Asked about BBC1 and 2 , ITV and Channel 4 , more than two-thirds of respondents in the ITC study said in each case they had not been offended by the channel in question .
4 In each case it had in effect been ruled that Gen Robertson 's order of 14 May would apply , and that 5 Corps could continue with arrangements already entered into hand over both Cossacks and Yugoslavs but only in each case , so lob as force did not have to be used .
5 He had five victories in 1986 , another six in 1987 , though in each season he had to settle for runner-up place in the Championship .
6 And in each hand she had two heavy plastic carrier bags of shopping ; they cut into her hands and threatened to split .
7 From the king 's standpoint , the vital consequence was that in each county he had a loyal cadre of men whose services and renders he could call on directly when he chose .
8 In each age they had different demands and made different choices for the use of the land .
9 Because in that instant she had fired the ship 's rear guns and had blasted the other ship 's nose section into particles .
10 In that capacity he had presided over a campaign against corruption , and more positively over a relaxation of the restrictions upon private trade and local government .
11 ‘ Perhaps in that way she had a lucky escape . ’
12 ‘ I 've done it again , ’ she said , twisting her lips in that way she had of showing disappointment with herself .
13 Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 .
14 Now in that case we had to select those measures er by knowledge of the problem .
15 ‘ I 've seen one other case — where a woman fell on her face — but in that case she had other facial injuries which Lewis did n't have .
16 In that office he had to deal first with the Visigothic king Alaric II and then with the Ostrogoth Theodoric I. He was twice accused of treason , but was exonerated on both occasions .
17 In that moment he had made up his mind .
18 In that moment she had no conscience .
19 In that context it had long been accepted that the settlement of individual claims might be incorporated into an overall package .
20 In that time we had won 3 and drawn 2 .
21 In that time he had performed group sex with his millionaire businessmen , turned on sex starved women who have never had an orgasm
22 In that time she had to out-glare three Renaults , four Cortinas and a Volkswagen .
23 In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds .
24 No I did n't , luckily , erm my mother 's family , probably the men in that family I had the influence o of of those men and I think that helped a lot .
25 They would sit outside wait in that days we had a seat out in the and even if was a seat for sitting outside they would sit on their own way or on a rock .
26 There were two o there 's always two no matter where you go , there was two in that room they had to fetch me out .
27 There was still a world to face and in that world she had learned to take care of herself .
28 This led me into programmes like Tom Keating , Every window tells a story , which was about stained glass , Tudor miniatures , Edwin Mullins doing a Love Affair with Nature , Paintability , that wonderful Pottery Ladies series on the old ladies who painted all the original designs for Charlotte Rheade , Clarice Cliff and Susie Cooper — in that series you had a fantastic combination of feminism , oral history , skill , design , all in one series .
29 Yet in another sense he had no home , and no country .
30 In another room they had a stroke of luck when they came across a large paper bag of fruit , a couple of packets of biscuits , a tin of shortbread , a jar of butterscotch and an unopened bottle of Johnnie Walker whisky .
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