Example sentences of "had a [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme is available , free of charge , to employees under 65 who have not had a test in the last three years . |
| 2 | British Steel 's Corby Works , the headquarters of the company 's Welded Tubes business , has had a presence in the town since the early 1930s . |
| 3 | " You look as though you 've had a kick in the belly . " |
| 4 | It is not thought to have had a stake in the video . |
| 5 | Er our latest competition question for you , we are asking for you to identify the nationalities of these three riders , Rider A pretty good video er we 've er had a look in the office actually and er surprisingly enough it 's got through the censors and we 're actually giving it out as a prize . |
| 6 | On the way back from moving the sheep , I felt as if I 'd had a night in the pub , started feeling very wheezy and , Oh this is good . |
| 7 | Darlington College has never had a winner in the national finals but course leader Alan Brookfield thinks this could be the lucky year . |
| 8 | When you 've had a day in the open air you have a sort of |
| 9 | OCS CLWYD Premier Division champions St Asaph City have had a re-shuffle in the boardroom . |
| 10 | ‘ Glasgow 's had a facelift in the past few years but it 's no more than that . |
| 11 | Remember that penalties imposed during the main bout carry forwards into the extension , so if you have had a warning in the bout proper for stepping out , and then immediately incur a half-point penalty during the sudden-death , your opponent wins . |
| 12 | If he seems to have had a foot in the door for an awfully long time then that is probably because he made his debut as an 18–year-old during the Dermot Reeve era . |
| 13 | It would have had a beginning in the big bang , about fifteen billion years ago , and it would come to an end for a star that collapsed and for anything that fell into the black hole the collapsing star left behind . |
| 14 | They had had a banquet in the middle of the fast . |
| 15 | It escapes me why he has n't had a spell in the reserves to shake him up a bit . |
| 16 | Have you ever had a drink in the morning ? |
| 17 | Anyway , I 'd had a drink in the Club , that 's where I heard . |
| 18 | I mean as usual with financial journalism , er i it 's somewhere in between , I mean endowments are having a bad run at the moment and that 's because they 've paid out such excellent bonuses in the past so if you 've had a maturity in the last four or five years , you 'll have seen how good they are . |
| 19 | United also might have had a penalty in the second half when City skipper , Keith Curle , appeared to push striker Mark Hughes over in his box , but referee Robert Hart , waved play on . |
| 20 | United were unlucky … so what 's new … they could or is it should have had a penalty in the second half when Chrissy Allen was brought down … |
| 21 | It was unlikely that Hatton could have had a hand in the Cornwall or Monmouthshire jobs . |
| 22 | I am not claiming it is my doing , but I have had a hand in the fact that four years ago and two years ago and again this year we have had exhibitions by living sculptors . |
| 23 | Although there were suggestions that Ashraf may have had a hand in the affair it seems more likely that the Shah dalliance with another women was the real cause . " |
| 24 | Most of the printed newsbooks now attributed to Mabbott 's editorship were probably not written by him , although there is some evidence that he may have had a hand in The Perfect Diurnall ( 1642–55 ) , edited by Samuel Pecke . |
| 25 | At the end of the Civil War , Mexico had taken in thousands of Republican exiles , some of whom had had a hand in the drafting of the proposal . |
| 26 | In Paris , he enlisted the aid of an influential American physician , Dr. Edmund L. Gros , who had had a hand in the creation of the American Ambulance Field Service . |
| 27 | Thirty five , but that includes the meal as well , they 'd have had a meal in the restaurant there wo n't you ? |
| 28 | Although we are not told it , Mary 's home would certainly have had a fire in the one and only downstairs room , and there the Holy Family would have met to eat and to share together . |
| 29 | We switched off everything , I 'm sure , and we had n't had a fire in the grate for days . |
| 30 | This is n't the first time that we 've had a fire in the school and it is n't the first time that we 've solved the problem quickly , and we 'll have more again . |