Example sentences of "had some " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Victorian Britain or France during the Second Empire the critic had some influence over taste . |
| 2 | The labour party , which still had some of the socialist leanings of its founder James Connolly , was forced by its own lay members to amend its draft constitution in 1940 in order to fall in line with current papal social teaching . |
| 3 | Last summer she had some kind of shock — nobody knows what . |
| 4 | ‘ Besides , coming back to your problem , Inspector , nearly everybody had some of the horseradish sauce . ’ |
| 5 | I went out to the theatre and the opera a lot , and when I had some time off , I was usually able to get away somewhere . |
| 6 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 7 | I paused for a moment , then added , ‘ Would you mind if I had some pudding ? ’ |
| 8 | And after that evening when Dionne said ‘ it ’ was over , they had some undoing to go through , so near the edge of agony and ecstasy . |
| 9 | William Morris prints , pre-Raphaelite paintings and Romantic poets left him cold , although Keats , especially in ‘ The Eve of St Agnes ’ , had some good moments . |
| 10 | If an attempt is to be made it would be wise to approach those organisations with whom the dead person , or their spouse , had some link , eg. Royal British Legion , 48 Pall Mall , London , SW1Y 5JY , Tel. 071–930 8131 ; or the Soldiers , Sailors and Airmens Families Association , 19 Queen Elizabeth Street , London , SE1 2LP , Tel. 071–403 8783/071–962 9696 if they were in the services . |
| 11 | Apparently no specific policy but managers told us they had some problems in the past with dogs messing in the store . |
| 12 | Wayne Williams as Sportin' Life justly drew applause for his succulent rendering of ‘ It Ai n't Necessarily So ’ and Jo Ann Pickens had some touching moments as Bess ; but none of the female voices sounded entirely in their element . |
| 13 | She lives in a large , sunny and specially adapted local authority bungalow in Northampton : the walls of the living room are decorated with her paintings ( done when she still had some use of her right hand ) and her kitchen cupboard is covered with postcards , love letters from old boyfriends and local newspaper articles . |
| 14 | He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’ |
| 15 | He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’ |
| 16 | The programme had some good out-of-the-wayish music : notably songs by Stenhammar and Rachmaninov , and Prokofiev 's brilliantly direct , inventive setting of The Ugly Duckling . |
| 17 | Aesthetically , Londoners will have to draw what consolation they can from the fact that Nicholas Ridley , the former Environment Secretary and a water-colourist with an eye for broader horizons , had some influence in the siting of the gates . |
| 18 | Afterwards Alex Ferguson had some heartening words for England manager Bobby Robson on the availability of his captain . |
| 19 | IN OUR TIME , abounding in specialists and experts in midget fields , George W. Keeton had some of the qualities of a rare survivor from a distant age . |
| 20 | Sloothaak had some fraught viewing before his prize was safe . |
| 21 | Luc Besson 's The Big Blue , for all its follies , had some lovely brooding moments , and The Abyss ( 12 ) , the biggest and almost certainly best of the current American wave of subterranean movies , nurtures expressly metaphysical intentions : it is , says the producer Gale Anne Hurd , about ‘ the abyss inside each of us ’ . |
| 22 | And he even had some affection for Mrs Thatcher ? |
| 23 | The switch of news focus clearly had some influence on the public 's agenda but a remarkably small one : in terms of television influencing the public 's agenda the cause seemed much greater than the effect . |
| 24 | In all these ways they were more akin to urban dwellers , and felt they had some independent choices to make in order to improve their lives . |
| 25 | For the first time , it appeared , Mrs Thatcher had some measure of command over her own Cabinet . |
| 26 | It still had some major figures but no broad base . |
| 27 | We had some extremely hot gear lying around so we asked them if they 'd have a go at getting rid of it for us out of town where it maybe would have cooled down somewhat . |
| 28 | His views had some support in the party . |
| 29 | ‘ As we have said several times in the last few days , ’ Hoare wrote to Neville Chamberlain on 31 August , ‘ we had some great good luck in the absence of Winston and L.G.' Having destroyed one coalition , Baldwin had no intention of entering another . |
| 30 | Boat anglers at Dean Tail , The Nab and marks around the Isle of Wight had some whiting , pout , dogs and the occasional cod . |