Example sentences of "had [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where had that come from ? he wondered . |
| 2 | The primary submission for Woolwich was that a subject who makes a payment in response to an unlawful demand for tax , or any similar demand , at once acquires a right to recover the amount so paid as money had and received to the subject 's use . |
| 3 | ‘ The agreement itself is not enforceable against the other contracting party ; and if he had paid under it he could , having paid under protest , recover back the sums paid , as money had and received to his use . |
| 4 | The agreement itself is not enforceable against the other contracting party ; and if he had paid under it he could , having paid under protest , recover back the sums paid , as money had and received to his use . |
| 5 | The agreement itself is not enforceable against the other contracting party ; and if he had paid under it he could , having paid under protest , recover back the sums paid , as money had and received to his use . |
| 6 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 7 | Following the decision of the House of Lords in Hazell v. Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council [ 1992 ] 2 A.C. 1 that all such transactions were ultra vires the local authority concerned and void ab initio , the banks claim the return of the above-mentioned sums on a restitutionary basis on the footing that the consideration for which the respective agreements were concluded has wholly failed ; that the payments were made under a mistake of fact so that it is unjust and unconscionable that Glasgow should be entitled to retain them ; that the sums are money had and received for the use of the banks ; that the sums are held by Glasgow on implied or resulting or constructive trusts of the bank ; and that the banks are entitled to trace them . |
| 8 | I told him I had and left without saying any more . |
| 9 | If readers of the Figures wished successfully to grow the delectable assortment presented by Miller , they had but to turn to his Dictionary for all the practical advice gleaned over half a century 's gardening and , if that proved too expensive , then there was the Abridgement or the Kalendar . |
| 10 | If we had but thought of vamping her with cuts , we had done the business . |
| 11 | You had but to wait till your mother called you ; sit on your chair and suck your thumb , keeping quiet until I come … |
| 12 | One had but to ask for the information . |