Example sentences of "had [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The HDZ government of Croatia had been building its own army : it had 35,000 police units of which 25,000 were in the reserves and 10,000 belong to special units . |
| 2 | And I had a se , you know , I mean you you were aware that you were in a coach and you 'd you 'd wake up occasionally and realise you we , but by enlarge I had eight hours sleep ! |
| 3 | The other two had lower OBS scores ( four and six ) but one had such poor mobility that she was incapable of doing much for herself , and the other was disorientated and lonely , and was felt to require some companionship and support . |
| 4 | Second , the enormous increase in international liquidity generated by the exodus from the dollar ( see above ) meant that the countries which still had weak payments balances could borrow easily . |
| 5 | And on this farm he had some ducks eei eei Oh |
| 6 | All the interior walls were of matchboard and both first floor rooms had sizeable under-stairs cupboards . |
| 7 | During the summer we had serious problems report on childrens homes which erm which y'know which pointed out a few things y'know that had n't been doing well , mainly , mainly in defence of erm because they did put in a lot of effort |
| 8 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 9 | She had real women friends : pretty , witty women more likely to speculate on a swift method of fermenting potato peel than slaver over wild sorrel . |
| 10 | Ballymena 's Alex Richardson and Jim Fleming ( Crawfordsburn ) both had straight sets wins in the over 55 team 's 4–1 success over the host side . |
| 11 | Courtship in Baldersdale had well-defined rules Romance between the children of established families and hired hands was firmly banned . |
| 12 | And had these things kind of pinned on , wore First World War army badges . |
| 13 | As Anwar and I had these conversations Jamila liked to open the door to the store-room and just point the black barrel-ends of her eyes at me as if I were sitting with Eichmann . |
| 14 | Lotus 1-2-3 version 3.4 has 3D graphs now and better printer support , but most DOS spreadsheets had these features yonks ago . |
| 15 | At the time of the alleged fraud , MPL had three directors Peter Gough , current chairman John Harris and Alan Moore . |
| 16 | ‘ We could only find one orginal frame , which we used for Summer , so we had three replicas hand carved for Spring , Autumn and Winter . ’ |
| 17 | Care proceedings over the 13-year-old were started after social workers became concerned about her relationship with a woman in her 20s who had three men friends , including a convicted sex offender . |
| 18 | Compared with 1973 SDLP lost seats in Armagh and Mid-Ulster which could have been retained had Republican Clubs supporters transferred votes to SDLP . |
| 19 | The Liberals had powerful grass-roots strength and an historic identity in much of the Scottish Highlands , rural Wales , and especially Devon and Cornwall . |
| 20 | Gus , who in real life had black finger-ends cross-hatched like a file and no nails to speak of , smiled benignly out from the rain storm , his hair carefully combed , hands hidden under the counter . |
| 21 | The Great War started and took the scho er This Road school had all men teachers extep except standard one , which was an introduction from infants to grown-up and a matronly lady always called Miss , er broke us into this new sort of discipline and sternness really . |
| 22 | They both had pink vests Flintstones ! |
| 23 | Mrs Green was first told her husband , who had 25 years service , had died in a training accident . |
| 24 | Well he said , Alright , he said , I 've made arrangements for your baggage to be picked up and you 'll stay with me in New Rochelle , and he was going away and he slipped me ten bucks cos I only had ten pounds money . |
| 25 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 26 | By the end of the century France , Russia and the Habsburg empire all had flourishing cabinets noirs . |
| 27 | We had fifteen minutes association a day — or sometimes just three times a week . |
| 28 | On the other hand as many as five out of twelve members had industrial relations expertise . |
| 29 | Thirteen had an acute or subacute self limiting condition , but the remaining three had several years history of recurrent obstructive symptoms . |
| 30 | I was staying in the police house — they had several police station-houses for CID men staying , instead of going to a hotel . |