Example sentences of "had [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this they did to please God , who had since the foundation of the Christian Church , been plagued by the gaudy contrivances of man . ’ |
| 2 | In early January 1990 the West German magazine Der Spiegel claimed that the East German government had since the mid-1970s trained members of the West German Communist Party ( DKP ) to carry out destabilizing terrorist attacks in West Germany . |
| 3 | More than once in cross-examination Miss Tucker said that she had since the police interview changed her statement , and had made ‘ a new one . ’ |
| 4 | In Aden Nizan had learned a simple and never-to-be-forgotten lesson : that to live one 's life , as he had since the age of twelve , with the sole objective of not being a loser was an inadequate response , since it failed to take account of the political and social structures which determined the real significance of such a project . |
| 5 | Personal transport had since the dawn of time been limited to footslogging or a horse not too exhausted by its labour in the fields . |
| 6 | Again I think if Freud and Bullitt were here today , they 'd say , well look we did , in fact , have quite a lot of data , because I , Bullitt knew Wilson intimately for several years and worked with him , and er , Freud had rarely the stuff in erm , in all papers of Woodrow Wilson in the library of Congress or wherever they were , and he had a great deal of data . |
| 7 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |
| 8 | Talks on the issue with the Slovak government proved inconclusive , however , with the latter estimating that " even with the best will " Austria had only the capacity to deliver a maximum of 400 MW , or about half of the unit 's output . |
| 9 | Since 1770 there was a brewer selling ale near an oak tree in the parish , but for a century he had only the company of a blacksmith and a boot and shoe maker . |
| 10 | Perks was n't anywhere on the platform , and Bobbie had only the station cat to talk to . |
| 11 | She was through all the ordeals now , and had only the journey to accomplish . |
| 12 | After a year , I had only the boots , but I knew that if somebody of importance would approve the idea then the rest would follow . |
| 13 | The public , of course , had only the word of the press to guide them , and although there was more than a germ of truth in what the tabloids reported , this was by no means the first autumn in which the Prince had spent weeks without his wife and children . |
| 14 | Those who could not feed themselves had only the option of closing their mouths against the intruding spoon . |
| 15 | The agricultural reform , on which a constitutional amendment was tabled on Nov. 7 , put an end to the land distribution programme begun after the 1910-20 revolution , allowed private companies to buy agricultural land and form associations with co-operative farmers ( ejidatarios ) , and permitted the farmers , who currently had only the use of their plots , to own and dispose of them as they wished and , with the approval of their co-operative , to form joint ventures with private investors . |
| 16 | It was his way of saying at once that he knew the worst of what was to come , and had only the details to learn . |
| 17 | The reason why I have thought it to be so definitely a first edition is usually only because the title verso states : ‘ First published 19XX ’ or some such wording , and there is no mention about a second or third impression , or , because there was a date on the title page and a blank on the title verso ; or the title verso had only the copyright date on it . |
| 18 | Second Division strugglers Swinton , battling for survival with crippling cash problems , had only the consolation of a 3,501 gate at their new Bury home . |
| 19 | I have received thy kind letter of February the 19th 1755 , which gave me much satisfaction : and some uneasiness , that so many years have elapsed wherein we might have reciprocally communicated our observations to each other ; and although thee had incomparably the advantage over me , yet , notwithstanding , I love to peep into the abstruse operations of nature . |
| 20 | Hailey had exactly the qualities required to make an impact at the Colonial Office , not least among them being , as Curtis astutely realized , the prestige of an immensely distinguished Indian career . |
| 21 | The firmness of the French reaction was probably inevitable , given the circumstances , but it was also highly dangerous for it meant that if and when Bismarck sought to provoke France he knew that he had exactly the cause he needed . |
| 22 | After all , he had just the man on his staff . |
| 23 | AIB had just the man for this task — an engineering inspector with more experience of such matters than any other I have met . |
| 24 | Had just the stuff in the shed . |
| 25 | haaland is a central defender and sundgot is an attacker ; both talented — though i value fat-frank far higher than sundgot. so two vikings at forest and three ( ! ) at oldham — so norway 's tally just keeps growing as the biggest contigent of non-english players — which is quite amazing — for years we had just the odd-player like aage hareide ( man city and norwich ) , einar aass ( nott forest — i imagine his english team-mates had some fun with his name : - ] ) and erik the viking at spurs but nowadays you need a computer to have control … |
| 26 | erm He had just the qualities that he advocated . |
| 27 | She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk ! |
| 28 | So when Tommaso showed interest in her during those Easter holidays , she noticed him ; while Caterina remained unaware , for she had always the effect of spreading pleasure , and did not remark his response to her , his alert shoulders , his greedy pale eyes tensing for a moment , then flicking guiltily away to contemplate her sister . |
| 29 | Now , as he eyed Harry warily and started his third cigarette , he had more the look of a hound on whom the fox had turned . |
| 30 | RUC had slightly the edge in the first half but neither goalie had any shots to save during the period . |