Example sentences of "had [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And North said , ‘ Oh geez , I did n't realise you had that , ’ or , ‘ I do n't know where that came from ’ … |
| 32 | What kind of leave-taking had that been , such a mother dying and leaving three young children ? |
| 33 | Ulrike had that courage . |
| 34 | Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason . |
| 35 | But when they say that ‘ the agenda shifted on to health ’ , this may just mean ‘ Mr Kinnock talked a lot about health this morning ’ , or ‘ Mr Major tried to talk about taxes this morning , but we had that yesterday , so we kept asking him about health instead . ’ |
| 36 | Perhaps it is the legacy of my Fifties upbringing , when the States always had that image of the cornucopia of goodies and pleasureable things , with no whiff of European austerity and rationing . |
| 37 | He was a big man too , and his face had that same patched-together lizardy look . |
| 38 | Had that been the giant eel ? |
| 39 | Those who bemoan the weakening of the governmental role of parliaments are not only failing to bear English history in mind where Parliament never had that role , they are forgetting continental history as well . |
| 40 | You had always to be on a level piece of ground , you see , with no rise whatsoever and we always had that ; we had an excellent stretch of green sward a short distance from the school , and we gathered there . |
| 41 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 42 | Where had that extraordinary utterance come from ? |
| 43 | What had that meant ? |
| 44 | ‘ Goodnight , ’ — Boy was not sure if he was yet allowed to address her by her name , did n't know if he yet had that right . |
| 45 | As it happened , I had that same morning been giving thought to the dilemma of whether or not I was expected to reciprocate my employer 's bantering , and had been seriously worried at how he might be viewing my repeated failure to respond to such openings . |
| 46 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 47 | Jack faded out of it with a 76 in the third round , though , and then had that fantastic 65 in the last round — all too late . |
| 48 | We had that one-shot lead , and for the par-4 start we hit a 1-iron off the tee because it 's a real tight hole . |
| 49 | One was the philosophic opposition of the Right-to-Life groups in this country ; and they said that this was a foot in the door , the first step down the road towards active and involuntary euthanasia , and we had that argument to counter and that group to deal with , and even after countering the argument , we still had the group to deal with . |
| 50 | The white hat , I wondered , had that just been another trick of my imagination ? |
| 51 | She had that dogged look about her . |
| 52 | ‘ I just felt , ’ she said , ‘ since Donald had that terrible thing happen to him , we have been a bit closer . |
| 53 | You only had that sample of five , Sin Iguales . |
| 54 | Had that been so , it would not have been necessary for his contract to include a statement that , ‘ the Company will bear the entire cost of servicing , repairing , maintaining , taxing and insuring the said motor car ’ . |
| 55 | But , of course , if you 're going to be another voice you really need to know what you 're talking about and you need to have vast access to information at least as good as all the departments who are putting forward their voices , and you need to have the time and the staff and I do n't think they always had that . |
| 56 | He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ . |
| 57 | Ira Dilworth was a leader who endeared himself to all he worked with ; he was strict , but firm and fair , and he had that somewhat rare ability to see and understand another 's point of view . |
| 58 | Had that been Swift 's study ? |
| 59 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 60 | The shop had that lovely smell which one associates with his type of establishment and the floor was always sprinkled with fresh sawdust . |