Example sentences of "had [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Press reports noted that Mugabe had during the March 1990 general election campaign promised public-sector pay increases and salary restructuring , but that senior staff had been the main beneficiaries . |
| 2 | In summary , it would appear that the non-respondents as a group differed from the respondents mainly with regard to the more negative feelings they had towards the Oxfordshire scheme . |
| 3 | This is the view the Swindon fans had of the West Ham match and in the first half their hearts must have almost stopped as Town were hit hard by the Hammers … keeper Nicky Hammond played a blinder … |
| 4 | And I 'll write about the strange talk I had with the Nielsen woman . |
| 5 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 6 | She had offered a substantial reward for information which led to the capture of either of them , and had used what contacts she had with the London constabulary to have them both placed on their wanted lists — officially they were sought in connection with the " murderous attack " on two of her employees . |
| 7 | The worst meeting they had with the Shah was the last . |
| 8 | In his position as the British Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan announced , in July 1961 , that the British government wished to negotiate joining the Common Market , i.e. the European Economic Community , but the French President , de Gaulle , fearing that France would lose her position as the leader of the six member countries , was not keen on the British , entry , despite the agreement of the other five nations , The special relationship that Britain had with the U.S.A. was also disliked by de Gaulle and , in any event , the French government wanted special provisions to protect French agriculture , so he effectively blocked Britain 's entry into the E.E.C . |
| 9 | The complexity of the Sun , IBM and Motorola designs can also slow time-to-market : a six-month slip , such as Sun had with the SuperSparc , can make a new CPU suddenly uncompetitive . |
| 10 | The complexity of the Sun , IBM and Motorola designs can also negatively impact time-to-market : a six-month slip , such as Sun had with the SuperSparc , can make a new CPU suddenly uncompetitive . |
| 11 | In Danzig it was not possible for the Nazis to proceed as they had in the Reich . |
| 12 | When rights of conquest or hereditary rights had placed two or more territories under a medieval ruler , he was quite accustomed to finding that they were ruled under different constitutions and he would not think of trying to impose a uniform system of government on them ; Queen Elizabeth had rights and duties in England that were rather different from the rights and duties she had in the Channel Islands , which were all that was left of William the Conqueror 's Norman territories , and it was perfectly natural for each new English acquisition overseas to be won on terms that differed from what had happened previously . |
| 13 | The poet 's paternal grandmother , Rachel Phillips , was a native of Abertillery ( or Blaenau Gwent ) where a native Welsh tradition had survived , as it had in the Tredegar of her youth . |
| 14 | A day I had on the Severn some years ago exemplifies the contrariness of chub . |
| 15 | All in all , he was the closest thing the OUP had to a DUP man . |
| 16 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | But the battles I had at the BBC over The Monocled Mutineer and Tumbledown ! |
| 18 | I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce . |
| 19 | In Time magazine on the eve of the hearings Walter Shapiro offered advice for congressmen wishing to become stars , as Sam Ervin had at the Watergate hearings : they should play to the cameras , should not be afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves , and should never make the mistake of reading their questions . |
| 20 | They threw everything they had at the Swindon goal , but Hammond stopped the lot . |
| 21 | Easy on the whisky — there is not much left after the great crack we had at the McLaggans ’ . |
| 22 | This change had by the November 1983 uprating resulted in the abolition of short-term child support . |