Example sentences of "had [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she always insists , quite correctly , on the importance of social and economic aspects of medical practice , Moscucci also reveals the complexity of medical thinking , and the capacity some practitioners had for developing critical perspectives on their own procedures . |
| 2 | ‘ We believe the Tories know of the plans PDAG had for developing Welsh medium education because they 've spent years trying to avoid financing them . |
| 3 | The former view tends to ignore the fact that the Labour Party was deeply-rooted in trade-union politics before 1914 , while the latter overlooks the great potential which the war had for destroying old values and arrangements . |
| 4 | Well I would say it 's , yes , better , cos mean with th with th these erm containers you see now I mean , we had about say ten years ago we had a man here he used to deal with the all general cargo , all loose cargo from Beirut and all the Mediterranean ports but course now you got the trouble there now that 's a , that 's a cargo that 's , what 's fell away . |
| 5 | He had loaned five thousand pounds to Phillip Wreck , one of the most notorious villains in Paddington , and in Joe 's mind Michael had more chance of getting the Pope 's inside leg measurement than he had of getting that money back . |
| 6 | He mentioned some plan they had of buying old houses and converting them into flats for sale . |
| 7 | Yeah , well if we had , if we had of had more time we could 've , like , written each individual room but really I just put the numbers down quickly just to , to demonstrate |
| 8 | She fell into the way of sitting with him at supper , liking the custom that the Beastline creatures had of making each evening a little ceremony in its own right . |
| 9 | But any hopes they had of forcing extra time ended when Andy Comyn shot wide with the goal at his mercy . |
| 10 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 11 | An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news . |
| 12 | Any substantive disagreement centred around the issue of what role social deprivation and unemployment had in bringing young people to protest violently on the streets . |
| 13 | Ceauşescu 's first contact with British statesmanship was through the interest that he had in obtaining British technology and the up-and-coming Antony Wedgwood-Benn had in selling it . |
| 14 | Holdaway ( 1977 ) documented the difficulties police managers in Hilton had in overcoming wellaccepted practices in order to introduce more professional police practice in the form of unit beat policing . |