Example sentences of "had [indef pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 2 | Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism . |
| 3 | Apart from the wad of Reichsmarks that Joyce had acquired at the bureau de change , they had nothing at all . |
| 4 | And when the families were no more , they had nothing at all to show for their efforts . |
| 5 | She had nothing at all to go on , I thought , except that phone call , and she naturally would n't admit to having listened to that . |
| 6 | By far the most intriguing announcement in Wales also carried a competitive element , even if it had nothing at all to do with slow bowlers . |
| 7 | Everything about him spelt self-assurance , the confidence of someone who had nothing at all to prove to the world . |
| 8 | A man like Luke had no need to force his attentions on unwilling women — and he had nothing at all in common with her ex-fiancé . |
| 9 | This smug man who had nothing at all to do with her life had helped to wipe out her father 's existence for her . |
| 10 | That someone who had nothing at all to do with her life should have had a hand in removing her father 's last trace in her life infuriated her . |
| 11 | And all I could think about was George , about how I had nothing at all left for George now . |
| 12 | She soothed herself with the thought that the small deception she was about to practise was not the only reason for her attack of nerves : her own college in London , housed in a nondescript modern block , had nothing at all in common with the medieval gateway in front of her . |
| 13 | In other words , by the 1770s and after Berton 's reforms , debate had nothing at all to do with audible stick signals , but everything to do with the presence of a conducteur , communicating visually . |
| 14 | I mean I had nothing at all to do with t' business except I went in partnership with me wife and that . |
| 15 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 16 | If you thought ram-raids had nothing at all in common with bungee jumping , you were wrong . |
| 17 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |
| 18 | First of all I never hear it any more on the continent I ca n't seem to hear the radio , you hear some , you know , put on the radio and you have a , Brussels already , he had nothing at all . |
| 19 | Maybe he had someone at home . |
| 20 | ‘ They had none at Castle Menzies , as you know . |
| 21 | Still , rich men had motor vehicles in greater number and in better condition than middling men ; poor men had none at all . |
| 22 | To me all the cows looked similar — small and black all over although I did recognize that some had longer horns and a few had none at all . |
| 23 | Archbishop Hugh of Lyons was the outstanding advocate and example of this policy in the last quarter of the eleventh century , and whatever influence he may have had on Anselm 's later political vocabulary , he had none at all in this matter . |
| 24 | And and if if if you know they had none at all |
| 25 | One drop of water is not much to ask , but the king 's son had none at all . |
| 26 | In fact they had none at all . |
| 27 | And the fitters worked happily in their particular section and they had everything at their disposals you know , more or less er er in the one unit . |
| 28 | He could not plan for the way of the wind , that was luck , but for the rest he had everything at his finger-ends . |
| 29 | ‘ I had something at the hospital . ’ |
| 30 | Niki went fishing for another drive , and thought he had one at Renault ; but the big-manufacturer politics of that season and Gerard Larrousse 's increasing weakness therein , sabotaged that : Niki was kept dangling , offered the drive and then dropped . |