Example sentences of "had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far example , madam , my life ; my life , madam is a perpetual stream of pleasure , that glides through such a variety of entertainments , I believe the wisest of our ancestors never had the least conception of any of 'em . |
| 2 | I had the immense and delicate task of restoring confidence in Kambawe . |
| 3 | I had the chance to audition for the transfer to London cast of Another Country which requires young actors to play seventeen-year-olds . |
| 4 | Though opinion in the South gradually softened , there can be little doubt that the obverse would have been the case had the British government not changed tack and demurred at an openly repressive strategy . |
| 5 | In an interview with the popular intellectual magazine Magill in June , Archbishop MacNamara found he could not accept that the state had the power to determine the meaning and nature of marriage and compared the effects of divorce to the recent Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 6 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
| 7 | Reine Sammut of La Fenière , a de luxe bistrot in the Vauclusian hill-town of Lourmarin , had the edge . |
| 8 | She even had the audacity to suggest that I might have been ‘ carrying on ’ with Sir Vivien . |
| 9 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 10 | But he never had the time . |
| 11 | Still , the fact that Lord Heptonstall had the use of his all night does rather direct the spotlight on him . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , after the potted shrimps we had the beef — and very good it was , too . |
| 13 | ‘ Not everyone had the same pudding , ’ said the inspector with a certain tenacity . |
| 14 | ‘ And those that had the Normandy pudding , ’ said Detective Constable Bewman , ‘ had the wine sauce that went with it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And those that had the Normandy pudding , ’ said Detective Constable Bewman , ‘ had the wine sauce that went with it . ’ |
| 16 | My slide shows did go down reasonably well , if only because while the lights were out , they had the chance to change places under cover of darkness in the hope of confusing you know who . |
| 17 | Besides , I did n't think I could now save enough to make a significant difference to my standard of living when I retired , so I decided I might as well enjoy it while I had the chance . |
| 18 | When I saw the room , I immediately wanted to call the whole thing off , but the chap already had the cheque and I was on a hiding to nothing with my landlord so I would just have to put up with it . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm glad she had the presence of mind to help you . |
| 20 | ‘ . Of course , had the wind been very gusty before , they would already have stopped flying , or they would have taken extra precautions to make sure that there were enough people to prevent an incident . |
| 21 | Like most new machines , everything was a tight fit and by the time we had the glider rigged , we had worn out several people with the sheer weight of the wings . |
| 22 | I had the easy choice of remaining silent , or the more difficult one of addressing the problem at some length in various publications ; which is how I resolved the practical difficulties . |
| 23 | Lucy had the decency and zest of a boarding school prefect , the kind the Lower Third would swoon over . |
| 24 | The room had the look of a tattered nest — piles of newspapers were stacked against the walls , empty stone bottles stood about with dust on their shoulders like soldiers after a battle . |
| 25 | And had the Grandtully folk best come up the glen and join on at Dull ? ’ |
| 26 | Most people had stayed on their feet , expectant and alert , and frankly curious to size up the laird 's domestic arrangements while they had the chance . |
| 27 | While its gardens were small , it had the inestimable good fortune to back on to a park with splendid views across the city and one arm of the river . |
| 28 | It was precisely this spirit-this agitation against the staid and the genteel — which Leonard had perceived in the guitar-playing of his late youthful instructor , whose demise had the intensity of surreal life . |
| 29 | It was situated in an old house , a three-storey building which the students and others had the run of , more or less . |
| 30 | His own faith did not have the answers to this , any more than it had the power to prevent the catastrophe , which exacerbated Leonard 's growing disaffection from it , or , should we say , his endless self-questioning of it . |