Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And I 'll write about the strange talk I had with the Nielsen woman . |
| 2 | Apart from her looks , and especially those deep green eyes , she was cheerful and friendly and seemingly unaware of the effect she had on the unsophisticated young men around her . |
| 3 | His towers rejected the fear she had of the hideous , dehumanized sadists she had known at Mars-U . |
| 4 | He would go on sleeping badly , and opening people 's luggage , and given great luck he would even keep on living with Sam , though it was difficult to imagine that she would seriously consent to give up such a trophy , however little genuine pleasure she had from the child . |
| 5 | ‘ We checked my symptoms in some of the six or so books we had on the subject of birth , but none of them matched up with what I was feeling . |
| 6 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 7 | It is impossible to describe all the uplifting and thought-provoking sessions we had at the Farm , but an especially wonderful experience for me was the fantasy meditation . |
| 8 | you know , we would li I do n't mind people being in it , but I 'd rather , you know , can you imagine that er the Greek priest we had in the very first print |
| 9 | That Mrs Aggie no longer went ragging in The Courts , but , instead , encouraged the children to bring what rags they had to the yard , there to receive their candy rock , and also the women to come on a Sunday morning to the barn and buy what they wanted , she knew was very wise . |
| 10 | BSkyB will not renew the £13 million three-season deal they had with the Scottish authorities which expired at the end of last season . |
| 11 | Whatever the fault he had from the start , |
| 12 | He did n't care about the effect it had on the rest of us . |
| 13 | Too bad Henry Phipps happened to mention your father 's debts to that chinless wonder you had on the string . |
| 14 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 15 | One of the most enjoyable aspects of the course was the lunch we had in the local pub , which did a particularly memorable steak and kidney pie . |
| 16 | Also going 10 league games undefeated would match the run we had at the start of the championship year . |
| 17 | This is indeed unfortunate , for Williamson , perhaps more than any other writer , accurately described the experience of the common man in the trenches and the lingering and traumatic effects it had on the survivors of the experience . |
| 18 | Such disruption and the effects it had on the life and economy of Egypt fuelled resentment against British domination . |
| 19 | On record there is the prolonged correspondence he had with the Postmaster-General ( PMG ) from 1908 onwards . |
| 20 | This whole saga ruins any faith you had in the game . |
| 21 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 22 | Once we have worked out with you how much you will pay towards your care , the Department has the right to continue to base this on the amount of money you had at the time of your assessment . |
| 23 | I had agonised over its content , discussing it with Caroline , my wife , who knew the reservations I had over the job I was doing . |
| 24 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 25 | Well this is the one with the business I had with the library . |
| 26 | They are primarily concerned with the use of letters rogatory , the device which had over the centuries become well-established in the practice of States , and not only those of the civil law tradition , and which remains central to the procedures for obtaining evidence from another jurisdiction . |
| 27 | So this job you had with the diplomat 's family , did you get it from the , the home or were you in a ? |
| 28 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought you had a king-sized crush on that singer we had at the club three weeks ago . |
| 30 | How reliable this will be is difficult to say , since it could n't find an old Logitech Serial Mouse we had on the test machine , but always found the pre-loaded mouse driver — but this is beta test software , so there 's still work to be done . |