Example sentences of "had [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 2 | Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism . |
| 3 | Apart from the wad of Reichsmarks that Joyce had acquired at the bureau de change , they had nothing at all . |
| 4 | And when the families were no more , they had nothing at all to show for their efforts . |
| 5 | She had nothing at all to go on , I thought , except that phone call , and she naturally would n't admit to having listened to that . |
| 6 | By far the most intriguing announcement in Wales also carried a competitive element , even if it had nothing at all to do with slow bowlers . |
| 7 | Everything about him spelt self-assurance , the confidence of someone who had nothing at all to prove to the world . |
| 8 | A man like Luke had no need to force his attentions on unwilling women — and he had nothing at all in common with her ex-fiancé . |
| 9 | This smug man who had nothing at all to do with her life had helped to wipe out her father 's existence for her . |
| 10 | That someone who had nothing at all to do with her life should have had a hand in removing her father 's last trace in her life infuriated her . |
| 11 | And all I could think about was George , about how I had nothing at all left for George now . |
| 12 | She soothed herself with the thought that the small deception she was about to practise was not the only reason for her attack of nerves : her own college in London , housed in a nondescript modern block , had nothing at all in common with the medieval gateway in front of her . |
| 13 | In other words , by the 1770s and after Berton 's reforms , debate had nothing at all to do with audible stick signals , but everything to do with the presence of a conducteur , communicating visually . |
| 14 | I mean I had nothing at all to do with t' business except I went in partnership with me wife and that . |
| 15 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 16 | If you thought ram-raids had nothing at all in common with bungee jumping , you were wrong . |
| 17 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |
| 18 | First of all I never hear it any more on the continent I ca n't seem to hear the radio , you hear some , you know , put on the radio and you have a , Brussels already , he had nothing at all . |
| 19 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 20 | They had nothing for it but to crawl back to Mr Scully and to pay Mike Channon 's cancellation fee ( £353 ) out of their own pockets . |
| 21 | He wanted me to handle all the money side and do the bills but some weeks I had nothing for food , nothing for bills , nothing for the children . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 23 | His character was as bankrupt as his purse ; he had nothing with which to meet his debt of obligation to John and Nora . |
| 24 | As a child in wartime London I must have unconsciously sought a hobby that had nothing of death in it — something that was all beauty . |
| 25 | The truck had nothing of consequence in it . |
| 26 | Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature . |
| 27 | He had nothing of the self-assurance the Greeks liked to attribute to wise Jewish men . |
| 28 | Crusaders had nothing of note to show in the first half apart from a drive lofted over the bar by Stephen Lynch from Burrows ' free kick in the second minute and a double save by Distillery keeper Steve Collins from Steven Livingstone in the 31st minute . |
| 29 | The dead had nothing to be frightened of any more , and there was nothing to fear from them . |
| 30 | A year ago , Norfolk Library 's local history department told me they had nothing about Edis — perhaps the most important woman photographer in East Anglia . |