Example sentences of "had [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's had 10 times the number of commission bids for Vung Tau as he had for Nanking — ‘ and this is a much smaller cargo ’ . |
| 2 | I hope that the BBC will make more effort in the future to bring more coverage of major tennis events , for example Grand Slams like the French Open , on the scale of coverage they had for Wimbledon because I am sure that there are many people who are in the same situation as me and would like more tennis on TV . |
| 3 | I had for company a silver-grey , two-litre Volvo and the Pensées of Blaise Pascal . |
| 4 | The brave heresies which were uttered then , the great plans we had for Britain , our determination to allow people to keep a fair proportion of what they have worked for and won : must these noble hopes perish so soon ? |
| 5 | Though much of the 48-minute speech was devoted to outlining policies Labour had for Britain and the wider world , it was his attacks on Mr Major that set the Blackpool Labour Conference alight . |
| 6 | I mean , look at what Hendrix had for pedals — just a Fuzz Face and a great big stack of Marshalls . |
| 7 | The reverence she had for glamour touched him . |
| 8 | And all the while , as it had for aeons and always would , the giant battle-monastery flew onward through the lonely void , towards nowhere at all . |
| 9 | Soviet spokesmen could argue that although the USSR had for decades proselytised the notion of a national liberation or solidarity ‘ front ’ of Third World states , aligned at least politically to the Soviet bloc , it had not created regional groupings or coalitions of states militarily tied to the USSR or the Warsaw Pact and it had supported the opposition of the non-aligned states to military blocs . |
| 10 | The same is true of the Marques de Pombal , who for over a quarter of a century ( 1750–77 ) was virtual ruler of Portugal as all-powerful chief minister of King Joseph I. His efforts to revive the country 's economic life and challenge the dominance which British merchants had for decades wielded over its foreign trade , his ferocious repression of noble opposition , his brutal expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 ( see p. 454 ) , show a far more truly radical attitude to tradition and established interests than Frederick II displayed . |
| 11 | It was one of the great post-war institutions whose central purpose was political — to put an end to the frightful nationalistic quarrels which had for decades , indeed centuries , seen the people of Europe tearing each other to pieces and spreading havoc far and wide . |
| 12 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 13 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 14 | She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming . |
| 15 | ‘ George Harrison taught me that — I was at his house , and I noticed that all he had for breakfast was fresh fruit . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe it was somethin' she had for breakfast , ’ Sonny said . |
| 17 | You give me anyone 's phone line and mail for a month and I 'll tell you exactly who he is , how old he is , his likes and dislikes , his character , his worries , what he had for breakfast and supper , what time he wakes up . |
| 18 | They know what he had for breakfast ’ . |
| 19 | It may take anywhere from two to five or six hours , depending on the wood and the wind and what you had for breakfast and things like that . |
| 20 | Do n't just count ; tell them how you got to the studio or what you had for breakfast . |
| 21 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
| 22 | But about himself he practically told me what he had for breakfast . |
| 23 | Where 's my drink I had for breakfast ? |
| 24 | Where 's my drink I had for breakfast ? |
| 25 | And he will talk about the affection Crosby had for Ireland . |
| 26 | Even so , the significance it has for Hobbes is nothing like that which it had for Bacon . |
| 27 | But history will record that McLaren solved its problem ( by setting up the car as they had for Spain ) , Hunt was on pole alongside Niki , Niki led the race for eight laps until his engine blew , Hunt then led it but was put under heavy pressure by Depailler , was suffering from the dry heaves inside his helmet and somehow survived to win a race from which Niki garnered nothing . |
| 28 | I often think how she would despise me when I am driven by curiosities to ask the children what they had for lunch when they were invited out . |
| 29 | We knew what they had for lunch . |
| 30 | In my herb book , what on the years ago that 's all people had for medicines was herbs |