Example sentences of "[noun sg] that the [noun] had [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one more indication that the government had its own vested interest in allowing Ulster to stew indefinitely in its crime and racketeer misery . |
| 2 | The crew looked pleased enough , the camera man muttering something to the effect that the bitch had it coming . |
| 3 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
| 4 | Ember would n't even tell her what from , but she could sense through the flux of data that came from her paling blue awareness that the others had something planned for her , something that she did n't want . |
| 5 | It was an open secret that the scheme had its supporters in West Germany . |
| 6 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 7 | The hatred was enough , answer to the strange , stifling power that Luke Scott had over her , but now a new suspicion preyed on the edges of her consciousness of it , the shadowy suggestion of a conviction that the hatred had its genesis in something darker and more complex than the realities she was calling to mind . |
| 8 | The music is quite uncharacteristic of the mature Elgar , but written with the clear purpose that the group had something new to play regularly . |
| 9 | With jackdaws and Mambas both out of the frame , I found myself considering the bizarre idea that the storm had something to do with the disappearance of my dead sister 's remains . |
| 10 | The ankle muscles were holding the foot in an almost normal position — oblivious to the fact that the joints had nothing to rest on , that this was a classic case of a boy who would normally have ended up with a club foot . |
| 11 | The audience , who knew for a fact that the Press had its facts wrong about the marriage , wittered on about ‘ ordinary people ’ being able to solve problems in the privacy of their own homes . |