Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lost any faith I had in Taylor the day he named the side for the game vs Norway . |
| 2 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 3 | When I began to visit Chedworth many years ago , often with a party of students , I well remember the difficulty I had in explaining the buildings in these terms . |
| 4 | Well I worked there and then er quite a bit I had to w they had me working on the main road . |
| 5 | OF COURSE someone had to be blamed for the Grand National that never was . |
| 6 | But of course I had to back off because you pulled out of it , and started fighting again . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was n't money I had in mind . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The experience I had as a partner would not be replicated today because of the increasing narrowness of individual roles . ’ |
| 9 | And therefore I , I would like to tell you an experience I had in Madagascar because it 's one of the things that will be in my memory on my deathbed . |
| 10 | The last card I had from you , you were working in London . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm really looking forward to linking up with David because I believe we can go on to become every bit as good as the partnership I had with Ian . ’ |
| 12 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
| 13 | I can not describe to you , my dear sister , what I went through during those three quarters of an hour , seated was as pale as the jasmine I had about my head … |
| 14 | And I 'll write about the strange talk I had with the Nielsen woman . |
| 15 | That talk I had to Johnny 's not done m a blind bit of good . |
| 16 | ‘ Then suddenly I just could n't take it any longer — the knowledge that the only effect I had on you was sexual , the only way I could influence you was physically , whereas you loved Jones , as I thought ; your relationship with him was emotional … |
| 17 | It was very mean of me , I know , after the sweet beginning of your letter & the pleasure I had from it , to be very angry at the end . |
| 18 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 19 | Auditors checking Department of Energy accounts have discovered that the ministry wrote off £9.54 million spent on research which had to be cancelled following nuclear research cuts and plans for electricity privatisation . |
| 20 | Aromatic bathing and massage became a nightly ritual which had to be carried out before Owen would go to bed . |
| 21 | Perhaps influenced by the number of his contemporaries who showed neurasthenic tendencies , the Reverend Henry Newcome had founded a Society and formed a rule which had as its purpose the support of priests working in the growing parishes of newly industrialised cities . |
| 22 | Ragusa was seen as a rival which had to be subdued and brought under Venetian control . |
| 23 | And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening . |
| 24 | A typewriter which had until then been conducting a passionate solo had stopped . |
| 25 | ‘ That it appears to this Committee that the conduct of the Secretary has been highly culpable in inspecting and exposing the contents of papers of a private nature belonging to the professor which had by accident fallen into his ( the Secretary 's ) hands . |
| 26 | There was , however , one perfectly clear and simple condition which had to be fulfilled if any rational deduction was to be drawn as to the effect of abolition . |
| 27 | The condition which had to be satisfied under that Act before a care order could be made was that ‘ his proper development is being avoidably prevented or neglected . ’ |
| 28 | The same subjects who showed an advantage for the right ear with pairs of digits showed a significant superiority for the left ear when the stimuli consisted of snatches of melody which had to be identified by means of a multiple-choice response method . |
| 29 | From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |
| 30 | From the viewpoint of this being an objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorne effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output simply because they know that you are taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations . |