Example sentences of "had [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sweden is currently off the Richter price scale for British clients but Norway , euphoric at winning the 1994 Olympics for Lillehammer , is determined to regain the reputation it had for alpine skiing thirty years ago , when the annual quota of British skiers was 15,000 ; today it is 1,500 , but that will change when the tour operators can be induced to include Norwegian destinations in their programmes . |
| 2 | The two Bangladeshi boys I had for remedial English all this year . |
| 3 | And , it seemed to me that when I , as the er your representative on Provincial Finance Committee is asked to make a co , commitment for this , for this for er for nineteen ninety three I could say no better than what we had as out target this year and that was hard ! |
| 4 | Cos the same thing still apply because most of the stuff was new but we had of hot stuff over the years like . |
| 5 | We 've sold all the stock we had of pink rock , |
| 6 | The image I had of whole group drama when I was first introduced to the idea was of a large crowd scene in which everybody was acting as a group . |
| 7 | On his last sortie to an Italian target , of all places , he sustained tremendous flak damage which rather belied the sort of opinion that we had of Italian flak . |
| 8 | Of the two patients who did not respond to prolonged treatment one had extremely high initial serum HBV-DNA levels ( >1000 pg/ml ) , while both patients had near normal aspartate aminotransferase levels at entry . |
| 9 | The collapse of Mosley 's challenge as a reforming force , and the close connection this had with political violence , was to represent an ironic commentary on the nature of British politics . |
| 10 | Had we our Annuall Parliaments Settled , the Negative Voice Restrained , a Committee of Lords and Commons to be the Privy-Council , no Officers of the King to serve in Parliament , the Revenue Appropriated , all Eminent Offices had upon good Behaviour and Election of Members to Parliament secured , the Work might have deserved a better Character " . |
| 11 | Brenda Pridmore , recently appointed Clerical Officer/receptionist at Hoggatt 's Laboratory , pushed the marmalade across the breakfast table and began methodically slicing thin strips from the white of her fried egg , postponing , as she had from early childhood , that cataclysmic moment when she would plunge the fork into the glistening yellow dome . |
| 12 | He relished the thought of showing that he could create a viable large-scale industrial organisation in the public sector , as they had in private industry . |
| 13 | In the second case ( Reg. v. Morris ) the defendant had in similar manner switched price labels on goods in a supermarket but was not arrested until after he had passed the check-out point and paid the lesser prices for the goods . |
| 14 | 23–7–1867 Duncan Fletcher was suspended because " he had in public manner brought reproach on the profession of the Gospel by an unbridled tongue . " |
| 15 | Unlike their daughter , Meg could understand why , after retirement , they had used all their savings to buy the rectory and had in old age burdened themselves with a mortgage . |
| 16 | Appreciation of the vital place which the Church had in Medieval life is necessary to an understanding of the buildings which we have inherited from this time . |
| 17 | Both of these points need to be placed in context of the general significance which blood , of certain types , had within Hebrew thought and society . |
| 18 | Television has had as profound an effect on contemporary sport as the railway or the popular press had on Victorian sport . |
| 19 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 20 | ( Though my local shop which would never stock such fish deliberately , had on accidental import hiding among some Red Eye Tetras last week . |
| 21 | It is to the importance of this often underestimated ‘ Anglo-Saxon world ’ and the influence it had on English Nonconformity that we shall now turn . |
| 22 | Jacobitism was a continual destabilising force in British politics under the later Stuarts , so it is vital to consider precisely what impact it had on partisan strife during this period , and exactly how widespread sympathies for the exiled Stuarts were amongst the general population . |
| 23 | The machine was n't fit for this purpose so he had to good case to go back to Dixons and ask either for a replacement or his money back . |
| 24 | It hardly seems likely that the Government was jolted into action by the Northamptonshire Society 's letter , but nevertheless three days later the House of Commons ordered that a Select Committee ‘ be appointed to consider and report upon the Re-construction of the Foreign Office in relation to the future Rebuilding of other Offices on a uniform Plan , due regard being had to Public Convenience and Economy ’ . |
| 25 | But before they did , Jim , who stars as Christopher Columbus , and Sara , as sultry dancer Fatima , had to finishing filming with a romp in a ship bunk . |
| 26 | Concentration levels were immense ; continually we had to stern rudder/low brace to stay upright . |
| 27 | Surere could not disappear in the way that he had without powerful help . |
| 28 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 29 | A married woman , on the other hand , had at Common Law a very peculiar status involving both disabilities and privileges . |
| 30 | The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally . |