Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were on exactly the same wavelength as Massim d'Azeglio who said , after Italy had been politically unified : ‘ We have made Italy , now we have to make Italians ’ , that is out of the inhabitants of the peninsula who had all sorts of identities , but not one based on a language they did not speak , and a state that had come into existence over their heads . |
| 2 | The Cat in question of course is the Dr Zeuss character who had all manner of surprises in his Hat for the delight and amazement of tiny tots everywhere . |
| 3 | John , who had many times heard the distant rioting of armies of drunken , brawling navvies on a payday randy , recognized it at once . |
| 4 | A Qatari son of a Qatari Sheikh who had many falcons . |
| 5 | ‘ One of the cruellest had a girlfriend who had many friends involved in the struggle against the regime and he would go with her to cafes , where they would sing songs against the dictatorship . ’ |
| 6 | But Mackenzie was greatly missed as his devoted service to deaf people was universally acknowledged , and he was a man of great charm and Christian virtue who had many friends among the deaf community . |
| 7 | Unlike Dönitz , he was a highly cultivated man who had much charm , spoke fluent , conversational English and was quite at home with the microphone . |
| 8 | Oh , I know the prince is n't a fascist , he 's got nothing but contempt for Musso ; Constanza says her father was never the man who had much faith in any trains running on time ; but he is a man who can still get favours from the regime . |
| 9 | This meant that two essentially judicial functions were exercised by the seneschal of Gascony under Edward I : first , an annual progress through the duchy to preside over assises at Bazas , Dax and St Sever , although the seneschal , who had much business elsewhere , often empowered a lieutenant to serve in his place . |
| 10 | She had never met anyone who had such ability to make anger surge and fire within . |
| 11 | A R. What you are saying is that everyone seems to miss the work of Litz Pisk [ a legendary movement teacher at Central School ] who had such movement sense . |
| 12 | He 's a charming Hungarian , who had such trouble with the Communists that he had to get out . |
| 13 | NNS and NN , who had such information , assumed that what mattered to an unemployed individual was total income regardless of source . |
| 14 | … his wretched father , who had each year sunk lower and lower in the underworld , had been a gentleman once , a man who had been familiar with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good breeding . |
| 15 | But then here we are twenty thirty years on and those of us who had that upbringing about the purity of that Royal Family that 's suddenly been confronted with this image that 's anything but that and you know and I 'm , and I , and it 's been and now you have the tabloids saying giving you pictorial evidence of its any , any but that and so that whole erm image , view that a lot of Britons grew up with has gone , it 's been |
| 16 | All too often Labour councillors dream of monuments to municipal munificence — which , incidentally , bear the name of the councillor who had that dream . |
| 17 | This is because I can always ask ‘ Would I still prescribe that action if it was I who had that desire ? ’ |
| 18 | One possibility is that he took the view in this case that the trust inhered in specific property , and that it was payable by the person who had that property , so far as the other conditions for a valid trust were also met . |
| 19 | Who had that copy er , a la carte ? |
| 20 | Those who had little locomotor activity are hospitalised more often , have surgery more often and die sooner . |
| 21 | The defendant 's servant , who had little skill as a chauffeur , started the engine of the car and without any fault on his part the petrol in the carburettor caught fire . |
| 22 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 23 | The majority were individuals doing their national service , who had little enthusiasm for that , let alone for a task of this type in this perishingly cold country . |
| 24 | None the less , civilized people should not be called upon to suffer such cheek from the younger generation , who had little spending power and did nothing to justify their existence . |
| 25 | But to the father who had little sense of his divine power , he replied , ‘ If it is possible ! … |
| 26 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 27 | The Webbs , who had little sympathy with Liberal cosmopolitanism , were happy to come to terms with the imperialist agenda in order to promote their own brand of statist socialism . |
| 28 | In a competitive match-up , the Eagles knocked the New York Giants out of the unbeaten ranks , leaving the Los Angeles Rams , who had little trouble with the Atlanta Falcons , with the League 's only perfect record . |
| 29 | He was probably very frustrated too as his bride , who had little time to be with him , was struggling to keep two homes running . |
| 30 | Fowler , who had little time for him , was mildly surprised at his erudition . |