Example sentences of "had [prep] course " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subject of a flat in Harwich had of course never been raised again . |
| 2 | ( The asbestos had been built into the carriages to act as sound and heat insulation , but had of course later been found to be a health hazard . ) |
| 3 | There are answers to be had of course . |
| 4 | Anti-authoritarian leftism and the critique of bureaucratic socialism had of course been well established before the foundation of the SI in 1957 . |
| 5 | Violence , sexual scandal and murder had of course been seized on by Mary 's sixteenth-century detractors as admirable means of blackening the character of a major political figure — particularly a female political figure . |
| 6 | Scotland had of course been embroiled in the long-standing hostility between England and France before ; but not until the 1540s and 1550s did these powers actually try to determine the government and internal affairs of the country . |
| 7 | Marcus had of course left his razor behind , but the bathroom cupboard revealed a razor , virgin blades , and cream . |
| 8 | They had of course heard of the ‘ Vallar plan ’ , and had joined in discussions of it at various stages . |
| 9 | Patrick had of course ( yet why of course when he had so nearly died ? ) resumed his role as poet , jester , teaser , charmer , visited by his old pub companions , and doted upon by Alison and Franca . |
| 10 | The essence of pristine Labour policy had of course , and largely through the influence of Tawney , found its way into the official Hadow Report of 1926 : ‘ Selection by differentiation takes the place of selection by elimination . ’ |
| 11 | I have said nothing all these weeks , because there had of course to be an arrangement made by us with your former publishers , which is now completed , if you agree . |
| 12 | Douglas , disappointed , had of course been prepared for this also , and wasted little time in cursing . |
| 13 | When engaged in writing the naval history of the war , he had of course accumulated more material , both British and German , than he was ever able to use ; and one day over coffee at Cambridge I asked if he knew of any naval occasion of the Second World War which had not yet been told and which , in his view , ought to be . |
| 14 | His invoker had of course been Joshua Godolphin , and he 'd commanded Dowd to serve his line until the end of time . |
| 15 | The Spanish in South America had of course embarked on this course long before the British ; the changes of 1757–63 mark the point at which the British moved on an appreciable scale into the imperial activity of gaining new subjects in the process of expansion . |
| 16 | The asylums had of course long predated the bifurcation of health and welfare in the centralized system . |
| 17 | Individual noblemen had of course learned to their cost of both peasant fury and Russia 's military decline . |
| 18 | She had of course a long-lasting career after that ; her voice survived , a little worn and reduced in range but still sturdy and steady , till retirement in 1951 , and her bestknown operatic recordings ( the HMV Rosenkavalier and first two acts of Die Walküre were made in her mid and late forties . |
| 19 | Ellie had of course tried to refuse , but Mr O'Hara would not hear of it . |
| 20 | Attempts had of course been made before 1513 to link taxation more directly to personal riches , but they had been unpopular and , in general , ineffective . |
| 21 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 22 | yo you know if we had problems we 'd each talk to them and we had of course , we had , we formed a resident association and we took our problems to the resident 's association and and we wo , you know , if we had problems which could be ironed out the man , general manager of the development corporation , Mr would come and listen to our complaints and we seemed , you know , we we got along very very well really for such a small place with nothing because the only shopping facilities were in the old town or we had to go to Epping or Bishop 's Stortford you see ? |
| 23 | Jane Austen had of course much more first-hand experience of ‘ high life ’ than Richardson , on her brother 's estate at Godmersham ( Fig. 16 ) and elsewhere . |
| 24 | " They asked if they might come to see the palais , but they had of course to remain outside in the gardens with their nurse where they can do no damage . " |
| 25 | Purists had of course drawn on medical and evolutionary concepts , but always with the proviso that they were subordinate to the dictates of a higher morality . |
| 26 | She had of course questioned the decision that had left her heiress to Tara , while Fergus , so indisputably a leader , so plainly possessing the natural authority Grainne believed she lacked , was relegated to the command of the Fiana . |
| 27 | We had of course already found a transient increase in the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor . |
| 28 | He had of course his grasp of military and diplomatic practice to help him ; and he was firmly convinced that the Roman constitution was open to analysis in Greek terms . |
| 29 | Posidonius had of course no sympathy for the Gracchi . |
| 30 | Of modern poets , I had of course spoken to the boys — and to the masters for that matter , for most had ventured no further than Hardy and Houseman , like the Brasenose dons — of Eliot , Pound and the later Yeats ; and I discovered that they lapped this up as if slaking a mental thirst . |