Example sentences of "had [verb] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bless the lady : she gave me a large breakfast and then told me she had arranged with a friend who had a car to take me into Lochinver . |
| 2 | The tradition of literary criticism had developed with a comparable aesthetic presumption . |
| 3 | The skipper of the Lady Hamilton also had to cope with a bird 's nest on his reel halfway through the fight and had to strip off yards of line before he could resume the battle . |
| 4 | Gradually , as time passed without this return occurring , Christians had to cope with a world that continued to exist , its end being postponed to an indefinite future . |
| 5 | But she had to cope with a foreign language too . |
| 6 | ‘ Freda- through-the-wall ’ was her nickname for her neighbour whom she frequently invited in , particularly when she had to cope with a sticky social situation . |
| 7 | The attitude of Patullo , a conventional , observant , middle-class intellectual , is a familiar one , and so is his ambiguous attitude to this kind of reading , expressed in a later comment on the unexpected heroism of the man he had regarded with a certain scorn : |
| 8 | On the facts , the defendant was found not liable , as he had conformed with a practice which was approved by a responsible body of medical opinion . |
| 9 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 10 | Racal Electronics , up 10p at 237p , had to contend with a down and up grading by County NatWest WoodMac . |
| 11 | Denis Healey , nevertheless , had to contend with a wide range of critics , from socialists such as Benn who claimed that his successes resulted from such right-wing nostrums as a wage freeze and cutting public spending , to the monetarists of the Policy Studies Committee who attacked him for being far too dirigiste . |
| 12 | The Maya were an agricultural people who had to contend with a capricious climate . |
| 13 | On the one hand he had to contend with a tough gang of young people attracted to the youth club , and on the other to care for the elderly people who made up a considerable proportion of his congregation . |
| 14 | Winding up for the Government when the new clause was debated in the House of Commons on 14 April 1948 , Ede faithfully followed the Cabinet 's line , expounding the case for retention on the grounds that public opinion was not conducive to any change , adding as a supporting argument that the unarmed police had to contend with a ‘ class of gangster and armed criminal which hardly existed at all before the war ’ . |
| 15 | Karadjordje had to contend with a group of strong-willed oligarchs who enjoyed considerable power within their own territories and who jealously guarded the various perquisites which they had acquired , such as the levying of ferry tolls and local taxes . |
| 16 | Thus there could be no economies of scale in case a sleeve cut from one lay of medium blue had to go with a dress cut from another lay of so-called medium blue . |
| 17 | Greg Thomas came close to a wicket three times in his first over in Test cricket , but Greenidge and Haynes survived to give their usual start before Greenidge had to retire with a cut forehead after mishooking Botham . |
| 18 | But in South Africa , after having been in the lead for forty-three laps , he had to retire with a seized gear-box . |
| 19 | Turnbull had to retire with a shoulder knock in the second half but he was so drained and short of breath that he could not finish his sentence . |
| 20 | ‘ Even if they are n't for my eyes , ’ he had added with a twinkle . |
| 21 | ‘ Especially when he 's been cagey enough to tie the showing to a charity affair , ’ Caroline had added with a sigh . |
| 22 | When the farmer went to the barn after hearing gunshots he had found the body of the younger worker , but Janotte had vanished with a shotgun . |
| 23 | Political will ( backed by force — as it had to be in the view of the highly ambivalent public reaction to the programme hitherto ) had come with a vengeance ( Gwatkin 1979 : 29 ) . |
| 24 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 25 | Another burst of applause announced the arrival of the Prince of Orange , who had come with a handful of staff officers . |
| 26 | There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner . |
| 27 | Wilson had responded with a statement saying that the administration of Hong Kong was currently the responsibility of the United Kingdom and the Hong Kong government , and declaring that construction of the project would go ahead . |
| 28 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 29 | When , in 1150 , the citizens of La Rochelle had asked the Bishop of Saintes for permission to build a new parish church to accommodate the growing number of worshippers , they had met with a refusal . |
| 30 | The meeting was concerned with a new Australian peace plan which proposed a large-scale UN involvement in Cambodia and which had met with a favourable response at the UN Security Council during January and February . |