Example sentences of "had [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technical staff had difficulty verifying the up-to-date status of information being used , which could be significant in terms of accuracy of work produced . |
| 2 | The students had difficulty augmenting the semantic net . |
| 3 | I had help lugging the heavy cases from Jim Wilson 's truck , but I had to do my share ; and even thinking of where to put things was exhausting . |
| 4 | So if you were unemployed in Mississippi and you were black , you had trouble getting the fifty dollars to start with but that was all you 'd get , but if you went to New York you get five hundred dollars , so what would you do ? |
| 5 | But even Dr Gardiner had trouble doing the last question which was one of the hardest on the whole paper . |
| 6 | Set off early , which was fortunate as I had trouble finding the right path . |
| 7 | He had trouble finding an appropriate language for the painter 's obsession with the illuminated material world . |
| 8 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 9 | It was either because they were non-Greek speakers or because the Romans had trouble understanding the Celtic tongue . |
| 10 | Previously performed colonoscopy and/or barium enema had shown that seven had had total colitis , one patient had disease affecting the transverse colon , and three patients distal colitis — that is , the most proximal extension was below the splenic flexure . |