Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before women could form into groups to press for change they too had to challenge ruling ideas — ideas which suggested that their proper place was at home with the family . |
| 2 | About nationalisation I never had any doubt . |
| 3 | PP : You had every right to retire if you wanted to , but of course we also had the right to try and persuade you not to . |
| 4 | There was a lot of talk but of course you always had these people who sons and that in the army , and they would always come in with the war situation . |
| 5 | ‘ And of course I always had to argue instead and make things worse . ’ |
| 6 | Steve had gone off somewhere so , to help me along , I nicked one of his black bombers , the capsules of speed he always had around . |
| 7 | An easy and quick process even with the large amount of data I already had stored . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm saying that not even a ten-year-old would fall for the line of crap you just had me feed Kevin . ’ |
| 9 | She needed no squire for the kind of hunting she now had to do . |
| 10 | As he needed a fairly high percentage of oxygen he soon had a head box too — a clear perspex box placed over his head to concentrate the oxygen . |
| 11 | These entries are reminiscent of the leases mentioned in some probate inventories , the wording of which occasionally implies that they were valued on the basis of the number of years they still had to run , calculated perhaps as a proportion of the original fines . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't look so shocked , I 'm not suggesting we try and revive whatever kind of relationship we once had . |
| 13 | When Dauberval defined what he meant by dances of character he undoubtedly had in mind some easily recognised characters of the commedia dell'arte , whose actors regularly played such roles as the absent-minded doctor or scientist , miser , termagant wife or widow and various clowns such as the sad Pierrot or zany clown . |
| 14 | When they started their " mission " amongst the poor and destitute of the great cities of Britain they already had six children . |
| 15 | and the first sort of thing they ever had was just like a little screen it just went blip and that 's it , all they could tell you was there was something in their vicinity , it could n't tell you what direction it was or what height or anything . |
| 16 | Peter Naulls and he , searching for the hole into the mine , had got as suntanned as if they had been on the kind of holiday they never had , on the beaches of Spain or Italy . |
| 17 | In November Tajan told the Daily Telegraph of London he also had FFr15 million owed to him in France — a figure he rectified a week later to ‘ between FFr6–8 million ’ . |
| 18 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 19 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 20 | But if the patient could be restored to a state whereby he could enjoy a further period of life at the level of comfort he previously had , then it should be treated . |
| 21 | During the early 1970s , when the sort of thinking exemplified by Limits to Growth permeated official forecasts of imminent shortages of strategic commodities , the CIA toyed with the idea that ‘ The United States ’ near-monopoly position as a food exporter … could give [ it ] a measure of power it never had before . ’ |
| 22 | For years I too had these problems . |
| 23 | ‘ In places like Tynedale they only had a small stock of housing anyway and that 's been reduced . |
| 24 | That autumn was so busy for Seb he hardly had time to think his own thoughts . |
| 25 | You see , if a performance lacks this it becomes boring ; and with Strauss you always had the sense of the music moving forward . |
| 26 | Because of their early contact with parents they often had considerable influence in steering parents towards specialist provision . |
| 27 | Alexei guessed that if Burun wished to discredit him with Artai he only had to link his name with any one of the intrigues which were a constant background to the life of the court . |
| 28 | They did not celebrate it , although with Emma they always had . |
| 29 | And , as the lift doors opened , just in case he still had n't got the message , she gave him one furious push away from her and as he let go of her and went reeling backwards , ‘ Do n't you ever dare do that to me again ! ’ she flew . |
| 30 | It was time to sign off before familiarity bred contempt , and just in case it already had I decided to hurt her . |