Example sentences of "had [art] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room had the steeply sloping ceiling and dormer window typical of attics . |
| 2 | He had the shamelessly sensuous look of a man for whom being saved from his sins was the last thing on his mind . |
| 3 | I had walked about five hundred yards and yet only in this one spot , about as big in area as my dining table , had the normally silty bottom been cleared by the actions of the fish and clearly exposing masses of broken mussel shell fragments against which the zander stood out very boldly . |
| 4 | Er the most interesting case erm , I remember was a chap who erm having completed his course erm joined the R A F and erm he was missing at Dieppe when they had the rather abortive attempt at landing at Dieppe during the war and er , but he was never erm posted as as erm having died and erm it was years afterwards , it was in the nineteen fifties in fact before we could get the Department of Education to agree to the loan being written off because erm obviously he was , by that time he had to be assumed as |
| 5 | I was growing in emotional courage , and I had the rather wry thought that Leslie would have been proud of me . |
| 6 | Her dark hair was a wild , half-damp tangle , her face and hands begrimed with a black substance that had the most awful smell . |
| 7 | First of all I had the most awful trouble starting this thing . |
| 8 | I was shaking , shivering and sweating and I had the most awful pain going through my body . |
| 9 | I had the most awful time with him . |
| 10 | On our course we had the most enchanting fellow — a flight heutenant doctor and his name was Tom MacDonald — who eventually became one of the most senior Medical Officers in the RAF . |
| 11 | Univac , which had the most advanced machine , spurned business applications . |
| 12 | We had the most terrible argument . " |
| 13 | One day the aunt had the most terrible toothache . |
| 14 | Walter , the youngest boy , had the most distant relationship with his father ; he and Robert had been sent to boarding school and had seen even less of John than their sisters . |
| 15 | ‘ But I had the most extraordinary adventure , ’ she went on , her blue eyes sparkling at the recollection . |
| 16 | She had the most extraordinary longing to lay her head on his chest and lean on him as though he were a tree or something solid of that sort , to feel his arms close round her . |
| 17 | They were white with a lovely pink blush when in bud , and had the most powerful scent . |
| 18 | About 12 hours later , I had the most explosive evacuation , and when they did another test , the worms were gone … |
| 19 | Trainees , or inexperienced dealers alone took the task seriously , and had the most burdensome time of it . |
| 20 | Brian Watt , from Sullom Voe , had the most unwanted catch — a 23lb pike . |
| 21 | We had the most tremendous lift from the victory of El Alamein in October . |
| 22 | Severity of gastrointestinal had the most pronounced influence on linear growth velocity during each of the first two years of follow up . |
| 23 | I really had the most constructive feedback from the questionnaires returned by you and Robert . |
| 24 | He also had the most tricky penetration zone : Hungary , Romania , Bulgaria and the Ukraine . |
| 25 | Phil Edmonds had the most perfect bowling action , probably only matched by the great Bishen Bedi , and one you would gladly try to teach to any youngster . |
| 26 | But to Bailey , Helvin had the most perfect body in the world : ‘ She was so exotic , like an orchid . ’ |
| 27 | He had the most amazing head . |
| 28 | He had the most amazing brain . |
| 29 | The Minister of War probably had the most influential voice , for one of his officials , Dmitrii Miliutin — older brother of Nikolai , the " enlightened bureaucrat " who had redesigned St Petersburg 's municipal administration in 1846 — had armed him with a wide-ranging and incisive brief entitled " On the danger of continuing military action in 1856 " . |
| 30 | Willi also had the most appalling memory when it came to forgetting things he wanted to forget . |