Example sentences of "had [adj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yeah we had that the other night , cos I got it wrong the other night as well ! |
| 2 | Manager Joe Franklin saw the use of 114-seat twin-cars as the answer to rising crew costs , which had outmoded the original concept of small 48-seat cars . |
| 3 | Oh Margaret had some the other day , she said do you want a bit of this cheese , it 's green , it 's some , it 's some green , I said I do n't want any of that |
| 4 | He looked as though he had stage-managed the whole incident . |
| 5 | A big crowd of peasants had gathered-around the slimy village pond to wash their clothes and themselves in the gray , brackish water . |
| 6 | Search for a peptide was rewarded by the discovery of a compound containing five amino acids , which combined powerfully with the opiate receptor and had all the necessary properties for it to be recognized as a new transmitter substance . |
| 7 | Dalgliesh thanked her and told her that she could go home as soon as she had checked with Detective-Sergeant Reynolds in the library that he had all the necessary information about where she had spent the previous evening . |
| 8 | They had all the necessary facilities and resources at Cedars . |
| 9 | The party already had all the necessary channels for debate , it said , adding : ‘ Socialism on German soil is not in question . |
| 10 | And yet , where Beloved had all the devastating impact of a road accident , the terrifying unexpectedness of random violence , Jazz lacks that novel 's eviscerating pull . |
| 11 | Her workshop took up all the space on the first floor , her apartment , which had all the inner walls knocked out , the second . |
| 12 | A ward nurse accompanied Mr Reynolds as far as the anaesthetic room , taking with her all his notes and X-rays to ensure that the surgical team had all the available information . |
| 13 | From them , Pat felt he had all the available information and that kept him going . |
| 14 | When I looked after Father I had all the modern equipment I needed . |
| 15 | Angela , 19 , from Woolton and presently studying medicine at Nottingham University , says : ‘ I had all the classic symptoms of flu so I put it down to that . |
| 16 | Yes we had all the dirty jobs . |
| 17 | Erm then we had all the usual maths and English , erm history and geography . |
| 18 | I had all the usual notions of the time about the need for chastity . |
| 19 | The True Brit had all the usual pictures , but there was a sinister announcement . |
| 20 | ‘ There was a postwar cult ’ , wrote Mrs Le Mesurier in 1931 , ‘ which took it for granted that as the devil has all the good tunes , so youth had all the good qualities ’ , and faced with the giddy enthusiasm of people such as S. F. Hatton , Basil Henriques , James Butterworth , Herbert Casson , H. S. Bryan and Robert Baden-Powell we can perhaps see what she was driving at . |
| 21 | Pa had all the good stuff stored in the Dower House when we had to leave , and Nanny 's there now , looking after it . |
| 22 | One way was to synthesize compounds which had all the useful properties of 6-MP but were not attacked by xanthine oxidase : this was achieved with the synthesis of a substance later named azathioprine . |
| 23 | ‘ No , ’ Iskandara said after it , and her voice had all the suppressed emotion in it that Alexandra had dreaded all her life . |
| 24 | Kinnock had all the best jokes : sad fact that this no longer seems to be considered important . |
| 25 | ‘ A Bit of a Smash in Madras ’ , told in the words of an English employee of a company in the east , had all the best qualities of his prose : pace , realism ( Connolly was amazed to learn that he had never been in India ) , exact rendering of the spoken word . |
| 26 | ‘ It had all the best things about being at school , like the chumminess , but there were no standards to keep to . |
| 27 | McPhee had all the ordinary police out in support and Garvin brought in extra police from the country districts around Cairo . |
| 28 | One of the Instructors was an Irish gentleman by the name of Fagan who had all the Gaelic charm of the Irish and , more especially , a great mass of raven-black hair exquisitely waved from his brow to the nape of the neck . |
| 29 | Yes , I had all the other feelings of distress and fear , I thought of the world at war , I remembered the last war of 1914 — 18 when I was still a schoolboy and I had experienced the air raids on London then . |
| 30 | It had all the required characteristics of a living being and Lovelock concluded that this indeed was what it was . |