Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colchester Hackney Carriage Association had pleaded with the borough council to relent after they were told cabbies would face five or six per cent increases on licence charges this year . |
| 2 | Baltic permanent representatives at the UN requested aid in inspecting military units as their requests to the Russian side had met with refusal . |
| 3 | The position of the minority governing coalition had worsened with the resignation of Finance Minister , Andrzej Olechowski , on May 6 following the Sejm 's refusal to oppose a Constitutional Tribunal ruling concerning index-linked revaluations of pensions and public sector salaries . |
| 4 | These statements added little to what Arafat had already said but such casuistry , the decision to limit official contact with the PLO to the US embassy in Tunis , and the warning that any terrorist incident attributable to a PLO faction would render US recognition of the PLO void , suggested that the outgoing US administration had acted with considerable reluctance . |
| 5 | The judiciary committee 's preliminary examination of the affair led to accusations that members of the Bush administration had tampered with the pre-1990 export records concerning Iraq , and had impeded a federal investigation of a $4,000 million fraud at the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro ( BNL ) . |
| 6 | To the east the Mediterranean Fleet had also come under air attack during 8th. from Rhodes-based Axis aircraft , and heavy air fighting had ensued with six of the attackers being claimed shot down by the defending Fulmars from the carrier ‘ Formidable ’ . |
| 7 | Each episode had to end with a cliff-hanger and repeat this at the start of the next episode . |
| 8 | By the end of the 1787 season the White Conduit Club had merged with the new Marylebone Cricket Club . |
| 9 | Held , allowing the appeal , that where a driver was required to provide a specimen of blood or urine for one of the reasons set out in section 7(3) of the Act of 1988 , or claimed the right to provide such a specimen under section 8(2) , the constable was required by section 7(4) to inform him that the specimen was to be of blood or urine and that it was for the constable to decide which ; but that there was no requirement to invite the driver to express his preference for giving blood or urine ; that if the constable intended to require a specimen of blood , the driver was to be given the right to object on medical grounds to be determined by a medical practitioner or , if the requirement had been made under section 7(3) , for some other reason affording a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ within section 7(6) of the Act ; and that , accordingly , the requirement for the defendant to provide a specimen of blood had complied with section 7(4) ( post , pp. 885G–H , 890D–G , 891A–D , 895B–E , H — 896A ) . |
| 10 | Snobbery had fought with economy , and the two had reached a very silly compromise . |
| 11 | We left them on the boat while we wandered into the town to discuss with Sunsail a fuel tank that a previous charterer had filled with water instead of diesel . |
| 12 | An atmosphere of fear had descended with many witnesses too afraid to come forward , she added . |
| 13 | While the radicals had toyed with revolution , and while the underground had played with toys , workers were on the move , and in the wrong direction . |
| 14 | The Royal Institution had begun with an abortive attempt to train artisans in elementary science ; mechanics ' institutes provided lectures for what seems to have been chiefly a membership from the lower middle class . |
| 15 | This would not only be detailed but would require the submission of a number of " case report " forms relating to cases dealt with ( but anonymised ) which would demonstrate how the applicant had dealt with certain types of specified cases . |
| 16 | Prior to their expulsion the delegation had met with the families of imprisoned dissidents Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming [ see p. 38395 ] . |
| 17 | In this case a strategy of building and strengthening an existing practice had combined with organizational arrangements to increase small farmers ' output . |
| 18 | The miners ' strike action had begun with patchily supported one-day strikes in the Donbass , Vorkuta and Karaganda coalfields on March 1 , and in the Kuzbass coalfield on March 4 . |
| 19 | Analysis of cells from these rats showed that drug action had interfered with the expression of genes for some of the proteins designed to move sugar into muscle and fat cells , exactly the target tissues which must be stimulated by insulin if they are to take up excess sugar . |
| 20 | A chill wind had come with the onset of darkness and Magee pulled up the collar of his coat as protection against the breeze . |
| 21 | There had never been a hint of any romance between them , although their friendship had deepened with each meeting . |
| 22 | And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time . |
| 23 | Most of the large entourage the president had brought with him quietly left him . |
| 24 | How could she tell this impossible Dane that for some wild , unaccountable moment the previous evening , when his mouth had joined with hers , she 'd imagined they shared a mutual attraction so powerful that it had overridden any man-made measurement of time or propriety ? |
| 25 | She was shaking and her mouth had filled with saliva . |
| 26 | Disclosure that a particular Committee had dealt with a matter might lead to argument about the status of the decision or demands that it should be endorsed by the whole Cabinet . |
| 27 | By this stage Gloucester was securely in control , while the Woodvilles ' influence had collapsed with their loss of the prince . |
| 28 | By this stage Gloucester was securely in control , while the Woodvilles ' influence had collapsed with their loss of the prince . |
| 29 | The prose seems about to burgeon into satire on the very taste that it advances — reminding one that its author was himself convinced that all true poetry had died with Pope . |
| 30 | No marriage had begun with a more definite understanding of what each required of the other . |