Example sentences of "have had a hand " in BNC.

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1 It was unlikely that Hatton could have had a hand in the Cornwall or Monmouthshire jobs .
2 Subba Row , who will not have had a hand in this particular decision , sees him as a ‘ good scout ’ .
3 Subba Row , who will not have had a hand in this particular decision , sees him as a ‘ good scout ’ .
4 He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack .
5 Although there were suggestions that Ashraf may have had a hand in the affair it seems more likely that the Shah dalliance with another women was the real cause . "
6 Most of the printed newsbooks now attributed to Mabbott 's editorship were probably not written by him , although there is some evidence that he may have had a hand in The Perfect Diurnall ( 1642–55 ) , edited by Samuel Pecke .
7 He must have had a hand in Lady Eleanor 's death .
8 That someone who had nothing at all to do with her life should have had a hand in removing her father 's last trace in her life infuriated her .
9 He had learned from Desmond Morton that there was a plan afoot involving iron ore and the Swedish port of Oxelosund , which — had he not ‘ joined the wrong eleven ’ — he might have had a hand in .
10 It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it .
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