Example sentences of "had [noun] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst teachers seemed to be fairly happy to comment on provision for equal opportunities , some heads of department had misgivings about commenting on provision for multicultural education . |
| 2 | Cale also had misgivings about setting Thomas 's poems to music , ‘ because they sound really beautiful and I did n't know whether I could take something with so much noise in them , so much built-in jazz , and maintain it . ’ |
| 3 | It adds that ARC Northern had permission for quarrying and treatment of stone , apart from the roadstone coating , to work at all times , including Sundays . |
| 4 | Like most people who are themselves paranoid , Preston had difficulty in taking other people 's fears very seriously , unless they could be directly related to his own . |
| 5 | Either he could wait until the pod splashed down at which point it would start to sink , and if the water was deep enough and he had difficulty in escaping from the safety envelope , or became entangled with the chute , he might drown before he was able to struggle to the surface — or else he could blow the hatch prior to landing , risking being either injured or knocked unconscious during an unprotected impact . |
| 6 | For instance , difficult toddlers were found to have more behavioural problems when they went to primary school ; unsociable toddlers were found to have poor social skills later and had difficulty in adjusting to school ; and toddlers with good language development showed above-average ability in language at the age of six . |
| 7 | Already distended in his excitement he had difficulty in removing his clothes . |
| 8 | By contrast , the opposition campaign lacked dynamism and the Liberal-National coalition had difficulty in removing its recent reputation for factional infighting , a major cause of its 1987 election defeat . |
| 9 | But even she could not manage Firelight , which brought him back again and again to the anchor-stone that Firelight had become in his life , which fact he would admit to no one and , in fact , had difficulty in accepting himself . |
| 10 | Then again for reasons of established cultural preference we had to go back to the Audit Commission and ask them to translate £6.358 million into ‘ real men ’ , for we had difficulty in trying to sell such an alien concept to the police mind . |
| 11 | Ten minutes after take-off severe vibration was experienced , such that the pilot of the Stearman reported that he had difficulty in holding the control column . |
| 12 | After his victory at Auberoche , prisoners were taken whose ransoms were said to be worth over £50,000 , and in 1346 , according to Froissart , Lancaster 's army returned from a raid into Poitou so laden with riches that they had difficulty in transporting all their gains . |
| 13 | What Emerson demonstrated was that her younger children had difficulty in using the causal connective as a clue to the temporal order of the events described . |
| 14 | Many had difficulty in differentiating between , ‘ Why do you have the farm ? ’ and ‘ What are you expecting to get from the farm ? ’ . |
| 15 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 16 | With part-time farmers the lack of labour was mostly a problem for those on shift work or those who had difficulty in getting time off . |
| 17 | At first I had difficulty in getting Heather 's feeds right , and I went to apologize to him when she cried . |
| 18 | After a couple of nights when he had difficulty in getting to sleep , Charles had slept well . |
| 19 | In London it was found that deaf people in East and South London had difficulty in getting to St. Saviour 's Church , so in the same year , 1873 , two new branches were opened — one at St. Barnabas Church , Deptford ( forerunner of Lewisham Deaf Club ) and at West Ham . |
| 20 | A senior executive of a business once told me that he had difficulty in getting women employees to realize and make known such skills in the working environment . |
| 21 | When it was time to leave they had difficulty in getting off the island . |
| 22 | His story is that the Jews had difficulty in getting corn from Egypt in times of famine , and Antiochus IV made war on Egypt to help his Jewish subjects . |
| 23 | They had difficulty in meeting their diocesan quota as it was . |
| 24 | She said her only hope of having the boys returned was if her husband had difficulty in looking after them . |
| 25 | Another company had difficulty in tracking down specialised research work , what there is and how to get a copy . |
| 26 | I had difficulty in fitting in |
| 27 | Her description of my flat is one that I had difficulty in recognising : ‘ We were greeted at the door by Arnold 's housekeeper , Miss Roberts . |
| 28 | Maurice had been greatly shaken ; he was pale and he had difficulty in controlling his voice . |
| 29 | One planner commented that he had difficulty in knowing where and who to approach to seek advice on how to find information . |
| 30 | He had been told very little , and even that he had difficulty in remembering because he was so filled with excitement and anticipation . |