Example sentences of "had [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strength of the Welf party lay on the lower Rhine and in the Netherlands and especially in the support of Cologne and of its archbishop , for Cologne had strong trading ties with England . |
| 2 | On inspection it turned out that the women had strong community ties through their membership of the local chapels . |
| 3 | Sir John Donaldson M.R. has described in Abse v. Smith how the judges of every court had inherent power to regulate the practices of their court , which included the identification of those they were willing to hear plead before them , and it was not in dispute before us that these powers , until they were removed by section 27 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , were exercised by High Court judges sitting as such . |
| 4 | ‘ Filmophone ’ records were made of various colours of plastic , and had low surface-noise combined with great ruggedness ; but within a short time they warped so badly that they were unplayable . |
| 5 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 6 | Well , we had that incident did n't we , several weeks ago in the tunnel , which the authorities er tried their best to play down ? |
| 7 | The pro-Hezbollah Voice of the Oppressed radio reported on May 31 that the " Islamic Resistance " had that day shot down an Israeli aircraft over Janta in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 8 | The Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran reported on Sept. 19 that Hekmatyar and President Burhanuddin Rabbani had that day signed a peace pact . |
| 9 | The UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , was notified that military action had begun under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 678 of Nov. 29 , 1990 , which authorized UN member states to use " all necessary means to uphold and implement Security Council Resolution 660 [ of Aug. 2 , 1990 , demanding an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Iraqi forces which had that day invaded Kuwait ] and all subsequent relevant resolutions " . |
| 10 | But the chapter , having no protector after God unless it be the Roman pontiff , asserted that for a certainty unless he had that church demolished the metropolitical dignity would , for the most part , be transferred to it . |
| 11 | ‘ I had that determination to do it . |
| 12 | Whether the accused had that intent had to be left to the jury . |
| 13 | Crikey , cos the last time you were down you had that stinker did n't you ? |
| 14 | Only when we had that row did I realize how much the wish to please her had come into it . |
| 15 | I 'm not sure , but I think it was Mr that had that bungalow built . |
| 16 | So , in fact , had that decision gone to the main committee , or is it going , is it coming here now . |
| 17 | Where had that question come from ? |
| 18 | I still had that hurdle to overcome . |
| 19 | ‘ Thank God I had that five-shot lead , ’ gasped Faldo after receiving the £348,763 winner 's cheque . |
| 20 | well we , we stayed in a week when we had that cold did n't we ? |
| 21 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 22 | Grundy , a commentator known for his bilious disposition , had that afternoon returned from a lunch at Punch magazine and was himself feeling no pain . |
| 23 | I suppose one would call him a hypochondriac , because Dorothy had once told me that her earliest memory was of her father standing in front of the looking-glass saying , ‘ I am a dying man ’ ; her mother 's face had that bearing-up look one sees on the faces of those suffering with their feet . |
| 24 | Hadlee professes great admiration for New Zealand 's wicketkeepers of modern times , the late Ken Wadsworth , and the incumbent record-holder , Ian Smith : ‘ But James had that ability to stand up for the one down the leg side , and the bails would be off in a flash . |
| 25 | Each of the groups possessed the necessary prior knowledge , but only one group had that knowledge activated . |
| 26 | Had that principle ruled post-war planning , there would have been no new towns . |
| 27 | And that he had that house built , er , like er , before he got in it and it was paid , built and paid for like , you know and that . |
| 28 | We had that one-shot lead , and for the par-4 start we hit a 1-iron off the tee because it 's a real tight hole . |
| 29 | Remember I told you he had that job checking street-lamps ? |
| 30 | Voice of Israel radio had reported on June 1 that the army had that morning shot dead a " a terrorist " who had infiltrated from Jordan . |