Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [pers pn] have had " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me that was vindication for the disagreements I 'd had with Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson , both of whom saw the music and titles after they 'd been done and said they did n't like them . |
| 2 | As we discussed at our first meeting and as I subsequently discussed with Angela Rumbold , it was very clear that unless there was a preparedness on the part of the Home Office to take its hands off the management of the Prison Service in its day to day business and allow itself to be constrained by matters of policy only , then it would not be possible to effect the changes which you deem desirable and which have become very clear to me as being necessary during the talks I have had and the visits I have made . |
| 3 | He spoke revealingly about the problems he had had with jurisprudence , bemoaning the fact that it was ambivalent and undefined , concerned primarily with the ambiguity which sustains the anthropologist by revealing the centralities of a system : ‘ it was all grey areas ; no black and white certainties or decisions ; no precedent or case law giving the definitive interpretation ’ . |
| 4 | Do you know , on the first night , Malcolm Harris did n't know about the cuts we 'd had to make for time . |
| 5 | He 'd never told Mum about the words he 'd had with the relief officers , which was a blessing really because she would never have shut up about it . |
| 6 | One of the problems we 've had of late is the wine keeping too much tannin as it matures . |
| 7 | I 'm just sitting wondering whether the in light of the problems we 've had in the Gulf , there 's no doubt about it the strengthening of the relationship between this country and the States is certainly there for all of us to see , so do you think that 'll have a spin off in terms of people wanting to come here and visit us ? |
| 8 | V. GENT enlightens us on a few of the problems he 's had to deal with over the counter . |
| 9 | distinction between attempting to respond on the basis of behaviour , or a response based on whether or not there 's a victim , can carry you a certain way , but I was just thinking of some of the discussions we 've had in college recently about the sort of behaviour with which we feel uncomfortable , and I have to say that sometimes it would be difficult to identify a given victim or , you know , a group of given victims . |
| 10 | ‘ Every trophy is nice but perhaps this is our best of all because of the difficulties we 've had this summer . ’ |
| 11 | That 's just an example of one of the things we 've had made and that particular was sponsored as many of our pieces are . |
| 12 | He was growing like a beanshoot and most of the things he had had last summer were too small . |
| 13 | We actively encourage them to take on tasks out with the role of resident to give them some leaning to their life , to give them some creativeness to actively tap some of the skills they have had as a housewife or when they were out in the community . |
| 14 | Some of the dreams I 've had are just really odd , sorry but dreaming about a white hearse is just |
| 15 | The buyer can include in his claim for damages , the amount of the damages he has had to pay out to his sub-purchaser for breach of contract , see Godley v. Perry ( paragraph 9–05 above ) . |
| 16 | She was accustomed to the barriers to understanding between the sexes , but it never ceased to annoy her : it was one of the reasons she had had to expel her mother 's lover . |
| 17 | Then , when you return to your own room , you can look up the relevant pages and study them in the light of the explanations you have had . |
| 18 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 19 | And just a wee Some of the achievements we 've had in the last ten years . |
| 20 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |
| 21 | meant beauty lotions or help for someone in trouble , we are today senior citizens , a hardy bunch when you think of how the world has changed and of the adjustments we have had to make and that is |
| 22 | It had begun to seem like the ideas he 'd had when he was younger , that you worked out in school and at night in bed , that seemed so easy , then when it carne to it did n't work out . |
| 23 | We are , as ever , delighted with the responses we 've had from artists so far and we are currently working with a superb international line-up which includes Alexei Sayle , Spinal Tap ( reforming specially for the show ) , Spitting Image , Julian Clary , Dave Stewart ( performing a specially composed number ) , Jason Donovan ( duetting with Kim Wilde ) , Tom Jones , Roger Daltrey ( with The Chieftains ) , Lisa Stansfield , EMF , Seal , Beverley Craven , Midge Ure , Mica Paris , and , as they say , many many , many more . |
| 24 | She wanted to lie there in the dark , alone with the thoughts she had had to suppress for so much of the day . |
| 25 | My Lord I think it 's right that that it 's clear from the discussions I 've had with Mr that the plaintiff is going to be in the witness box for some considerable time and I think if your Lordship 's had an opportunity to read the witness statement , seen the areas of dispute , the nature of the the fact that arised and had a look at some of the documentation , it would be much er er a much speedier process than it would otherwise be . |
| 26 | We have an artist 's projection made on the basis of our early work , and from the results we 've had so far , I have every reason to hope we 've pulled it off . |
| 27 | Half-a-dozen old retainers acted as anchor-men in the positions they had had in the previous cabinet . |
| 28 | Not like they were in the dreams he had had recently , where they could torment him without his being able to retaliate . |
| 29 | We , we , I think er in the discussions we 've had there is a , there is a movement towards questioning some of the premises . |
| 30 | However , such strategies have perhaps become less important for the very high income earners who , in recent years , have enjoyed a large reduction in the taxes they have had to pay following the reduction in the high rates of income tax since 1979 : for example , in real terms , those earning over £400 per week take home on average an extra £55 more in 1986 then they did in 1979 . |