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Example sentences of "in [noun] and [pron] had " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And er we were quite fortunate in this cos I went , had to go to a meeting in Sheffield and I had n't realized in advance but at this meeting the people at the meeting were asked to give recommendations as to what priorities should be given in terms of awarding the bids .
2	They had n't known we were in NZ and we had n't known they were .
3	Vander Zalm , a Dutch immigrant who made his fortune from a garden nursery business in Vancouver and who had held the premiership since 1986 [ see p. 37940 ] , was one of the country 's most colourful politicians .
4	Chesarynth was drowning in light and it had a message .
5	‘ I 'm no use to anyone in football and I had better get out , ’ he said .
6	Moving to fine china , there was a very considerable overseas sales decline , particularly in Canada where there were lots of major retailers going bankrupt , but despite that , sales were over two hundred million for the fourth year in succession and we had a record December .
7	Erm I would like to formally second Mr because I followed a situation where the previous minister had baptised anyone and when I arrived I discussed with the session what our policy on baptism was and we concurred that we should follow the nineteen sixty three law but apply it under grace and with the spirit of God in mind and we had some very difficult situations when people said to me no I have no time for God in my life but I want you to baptise my baby .
8	James had stated in the prologue to ‘ The Black Jacobins ’ that he had written the book with the independence of Africa in mind and he had considered it more than fortuitous that a number of other books by black writers had been published around the same time .
9	I looked for one of those sandwich box things for Gerald in Sainsburys and they had n't got one .
10	I remember the one one of the ladies , er she was dressed in erm in green and she had a big bow .
11	to put these things in ice and they had n't got any of the , of the
12	It was now the second week in January and she had n't spoken to him since the night of the Christmas dance .
13	I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink .
14	McCormack , who has won the Welsh title six times and the national title three times , is now a Royal Marine training in Devon and he had to enter the championships in England .
15	We have to understand that it is going to cost many millions of pounds throughout industry in Scotland and we had better get it right . ’
16	It was impossible to say that the order made by the justices had any foundation in law and they had erred in principle in making it ; MacDougall v. Knight [ 1889 ] A.C. 194 , Scott v. Scott [ 1913 ] A.C.417 , Att. -Gen. v. Leveller Magazine Ltd .
17	Er but then she worked went to work in a munitions factory in Kilburn and she had a marvellous time .
18	You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had
19	He had not seen Anna since Nahum 's arrival in Swinbrook and he had no plans to visit the Hankses ' cottage in the near future .
20	‘ 1976 was a heat wave in England and we had a basset hound called Hector with big ears and a droopy face .
21	At the time I could n't work legally in England and I had about two or three months to deliver my thesis for my degree .
22	And you were If you had a spare room you were all Well I think you were forced to take in troops and we had Elizabeth , a baby , and we had lodgers , nearly all the wartime .
23	The watchman had been schooled in security and he had been told not to open the door under any circumstances .
24	I said I was not commencing duties until the next day as my girlfriend worked in Richmond and I had arranged to see her , which I had , by phone .
25	A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home .
26	Once , Reginald Forte , the famous organist , came to Middleton in Teesdale and I had the pleasure of attending that concert .
27	I enjoyed the work there — dealing with customers on the phone — there were two of us girls … the other girl was in charge and we had a man over us , but it was between us two … we had to get all the statements out at the end of the month …
28	No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six .
29	It lasted three days in court and I had to do night duties and then , finishing between 12 and 2 a.m. , going on nights again , going off early , going to court .
30	Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman .