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Example sentences of "had [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Yeah , but that top she had on before all you need is a black dre a black skirt and it 's a suit then
2	Barth and Brunner had most in common .
3	The best trainees and established dealers had little beyond brief academic demands made on them in the early days .
4	And from his Portakabin headquarters behind barbed wire round the back of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre complex , ‘ actually a great improvement on the one room we had inside until this month ! ’ , he 's been lining up a string of new sponsorship deals .
5	That , at the Norman Conquest , Anno Christi 1066 , the kingdom had somewhat above two millions of people ;
6	Although Jonadab Oaks had never encouraged his girls to ride , as he did his sons , they had all on several occasions had a go at riding the horses owned by their father .
7	But the main institutions which the British had adapted in keeping their nation together — the Crown , Parliament , the forces of law and order , civil and commercial institutions — had all in different ways turned sour with the progressive disillusion of the years after 1945 .
8	They had only about one hundred and fifty yards to gather speed and could not achieve a full gallop in the time .
9	It seems pretty damning that the nine syndicates with the greatest expected losses in 1989 had only between four and nine per cent of working Names while the ten most profitable 1988 syndicates ( the last for which we have figures ) had an average of 18 per cent of working Names , one having 26 per cent , another 36 per cent and one 48 per cent .
10	After another fortnight you had enough for twelve or sixteen .
11	In their efforts to pinpoint the causes of Japanese aggression and warmongering , the allies ' experts on Japan had long before 1945 reached the conclusion that the structure of land ownership was a fundamental evil .
12	Table 15 indicates that 45% of authorities experienced an increase in allocated money , while 31% had the same amount and 11% had less for 1984/5 .
13	In fact , they had less in common than their persecutors , or their hosts , believed .
14	Nasrallah argued that those parties calling for a boycott of the elections had nevertheless in 1982 participated in the presidential elections which , he said , had been held " under Israeli guns " .
15	Three years after Guntram 's death , however , Childebert himself died , leaving two sons , Theudebert II ( 596 – 612 ) and Theuderic II ( 596 – 613 ) , of whom the former had already in 589 been given a sub-kingdom of the cities of Soissons and Meaux , at the request of some of the leading citizens — development pregnant with implications for the future .
16	Belloucif , who had left his post as secretary of the Minister of Defence in 1987 , had already in 1989 faced a commission of inquiry of six generals , although this hearing had not been made public until now .
17	He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied .
18	If she went to the Dordogne she would be facing a life that had gone on without her , a life that had not for one minute taken her into consideration .
19	The hard core of support seemed to have risen slightly during the year , but voting Green in the Euro-elections had not for most of the voters signified a new allegiance .
20	I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way .
21	He had not at that time known that specific request for permission to shoot at Yugoslavs in support of Military Government had come from Gen Keightley at 5 Corps in Austria .
22	I had not at that time ever been to India .
23	However , the abolition legislation had not at that stage been passed or even presented to Parliament .
24	Despite the policy agreements , the infighting over the succession to both Mitterrand and Mauroy had not at that point been resolved .
25	She had not at all looked forward to being a débutante and wearing fancy women 's clothes , and not being allowed to climb trees , and accompany Papa , who always , said her mama despairingly , let her do exactly as she pleased .
26	She had not at first taken it seriously .
27	These arguments had not at first cut much ice with social democrats , but two further ideological strands came to prominence in this period which helped to put the advocates of social progress through public spending and ‘ welfarism ’ onto the defensive , or even convince them of the folly of their ways : the monetary theory of inflation , and the ‘ too few producers ’ thesis of Bacon and Eltis ( 1976 ) .
28	From the fairly casual manner of Nicholls ' wording and his failure to mention what he had recommended , we may take it that , at least so far as he was concerned , the problem of the status of emigres holding non-Soviet passports had not at this stage been presented as of overwhelming importance or urgency .
29	These two are in a very small minority of black sportsmen who had not at some stage faced the distressing realization that they were black and so they were different and that difference could significantly limit their chances of access to the kind of resources available to others , prestige , affluence , esteem in the eyes of others .
30	Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder .