Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In each age they had different demands and made different choices for the use of the land . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The people of Lewis do not always present a sympathetic profile but in this case they had my sympathy and for two reasons . |
| 6 | Traditionally , African beer is drunk from a large cup , passed round the groups of drinkers , but in this village they had a different technique : they brewed the stuff in an old oil drum and served it up in buckets . |
| 7 | In this sense they had never been closer . |
| 8 | I mean do n't forget do n't forget do n't forget when everybody was wearing their sickles and hammers in this country they had millionaires in Russia . |
| 9 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 10 | In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs . |
| 11 | Born in late March they had excellent birth coats and survived very wet conditions well . |
| 12 | In all cases English kings had to come to terms with the conditions which they found in these three different countries ; and in all cases they had to show an ability to adapt themselves and their armies to new conditions , military , social and economic , as well as to new thinking in the ways that armies were formed and war was fought . |
| 13 | In many towns they had for generations lived peaceably with , and often trusted by , their Christian neighbours . |
| 14 | In many ways they had both been so much alike : the nervous , magpie-like intelligence , the pedagogical aspirations , the Yankee toughness combined with the shuddering sensitivity . |
| 15 | In those days they had very few clothes . |
| 16 | I do n't sort of , I mean in those days they had wh apprenticeships and , and that sort of thing . |
| 17 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 18 | And Anglican laymen in America may have felt that a bishop from across the ocean would be harder to influence than the local clergy , many of whom were American by origin , though in several cases they had gone to Britain to complete their education . |
| 19 | In other words they had become , in her opinion , a rubber stamp , and not an independent body making decisions for the authority to abide by . |
| 20 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 21 | For Republicans this was a particularly rewarding set of results ; in recent decades they had enjoyed considerable success in presidential elections , but the victories of Eisenhower and Nixon had not , with the fleeting exception of 1953 — 55 , been flanked by success in Congressional elections . |
| 22 | In recent weeks they had mounted attacks on a French aid convoy and against European tourists , four of whom were seriously injured on Jan. 25 near the uranium centre , Arlit , some 1,200 km north-east of Niamey , the capital . |
| 23 | He also concluded that in most cases they had simply been wrong . |
| 24 | In earlier days they had actually earned their living by war and become rich from the plunder they could collect on their annual expeditions . |