Example sentences of "with the [noun sg] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Minton held a party at the Mandrake , giving Boris Watson £200 over the bar with the insistence that it had to be spent . |
| 2 | The kids used to be standing there one time — well , we hit them a few times with the cape and it had a bottle in it . |
| 3 | The third was heading for Isengard , to alarm Pippin on its way with the thought that it had somehow been despatched for him ( 11 , 204 ) . |
| 4 | His anger at the ineptitude of the present government action led him to suggest that ‘ when the loans were repaid and the revenues from new commerce were collected , the Treasury might even be able to soothe Parliament with the claim that it had , after all , turned famine into a going concern . ’ |
| 5 | A censure motion introduced on Oct. 26 by the conservative opposition parties to protest against an " unrealistic " budget obtained only 261 of the 286 parliamentary votes necessary to defeat the government ; the Communist party abstained , rather than voting with the right as it had done in an earlier censure motion , in June 1992 [ see pp. 38977-78 ] . |
| 6 | Its advice was sought by all the parliamentary select committees involved in any way with the environment and it had a place on several of the government 's consultative bodies . |