Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretly she exulted that he had the car . |
| 2 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 3 | When the British columnist Godfrey Winn travelled to Northern Ireland in June 1941 to interview the crew of Smith 's Catalina and found that he had the scoop of a lifetime , he was not able to use it , and based his article instead on Smith 's co-pilot , Flight-Lieutenant Briggs of the RAF . |
| 4 | Presently she found that she had the gift of tongues : notions of sacrifice and immolation and of a saviour with hair of sackcloth poured out of her mouth like a river of lava . |
| 5 | And also he doubted whether she had the intelligence to be so devious . |
| 6 | At the time of qualifying , however , I realized that I had the choice of working for the Eastern Health Board or the Catholic Church ( the two are interchangeable ) . |
| 7 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
| 8 | " In my Opinion there can be no doubt that the chief underlying cause of the serious and widespread unrest lies in the fact that the strikers believed that they had the sympathy of the government " . |
| 9 | At first he thought that he had discovered a new particle , but then an astrophysicist friend of one of Alvarez 's colleagues recognised that it had the characteristics of proton-deuteron fusion — pd fusion-catalysed by a muon . |
| 10 | When I had finished and opened my eyes I noted that she had the cup in one hand and the saucer in the other . |
| 11 | Well who , who noticed that you had the least Brummie accent ? |
| 12 | I always thought that you see when the , er Normans came and you had the |
| 13 | I suspect that if ever the day came when we had the misfortune of the Labour party inflicting regional government on us from Newcastle , those people would be wondering why their income tax or whatever other form of tax that Labour would seek to impose was so much higher in the northern region than elsewhere . |
| 14 | Looking ahead , I suppose travel would be nice , if only the opportunity arose and I had the courage to go with it . |
| 15 | In earlier years , is it true that you attended a Senior Management Seminar as a representative of the International Sports Company , ( Dunlop , Slazenger , Carlton , Litesome ) , and stated that you had the two finest wooden rackets in the world and that you had no intention of following the fibreglass and graphite racket trend as it was all a flash in the pan ? |
| 16 | The pilot repeated this information and stated that he had the airfield in sight . |
| 17 | When asked about statistical material , the teacher stated that she had the national statistics . |
| 18 | The committee claimed that it had the support of 90 per cent of the area 's population and noted that representatives of the IDA , IIRS , AFF , Raybestos and the trade unions did not attend , despite being invited . |
| 19 | Well fortunately the Spanish were even more incompetent than he was and what the Spanish commander , instead of rubbing his hands at the prospect of er the damage they were about to wreak , he discovered that they had the wrong calibre shells for their guns and Roosevelt and the Rough Riders overran the Spanish guns a and Teddy Roosevelt became a war hero and on the strength of becoming a war hero , he become vice president of the United States , got the vice presidential nomination and in good American fashion the president was shot er by an assassin er and Teddy Roosevelt became president , so there you are , there 's a there 's a career plan for you to er to think about . |
| 20 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 21 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Leavis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening — whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period , I decided I think roughly before the eighteenth century . |
| 22 | It was clearly intended as a question about her personal life , and , after a short hesitation , she decided that he had the right to an answer , if she really was going to take the job — and she now suspected gloomily that she was . |
| 23 | In the United States the Supreme Court in Marbury v Madison ( 1803 ) 1 Cranch 137 , decided that it had the power to declare both the acts of Congress and of the President to be unconstitutional . |
| 24 | He had selected the 27-year-old Kate Miskin on her record and her performance at interview , satisfied that she had the qualities for which he was looking . |
| 25 | Sir John Pryce ( 1698–1761 ) of Newton , Glamorgan , was so distressed when his first wife died that he had the body embalmed and placed next to his bed . |
| 26 | And then the largest of the Oaks moved forward and Tealtaoich saw that he had the high , domed forehead of a scholar and a thinker and that his ancient eyes held wisdom and knowledge . |
| 27 | Blaina always felt that they had the ability to go up last season so , to ensure that they do not miss out a second time , a new team manager was recruited and given the task of harnessing the club 's talent . |
| 28 | Though Will was distracted by crowds and other outside influences , he was very quick to learn and Trish felt that he had the makings of a dressage horse . |
| 29 | It may be relevant for the Industrial Tribunal to investigate whether at the time he was dismissed and if not then when thereafter , he knew that he had the right to complain that he had been unfairly dismissed ; in some cases the Tribunal may have to consider whether there has been any misrepresentation about any relevant matter by the employer to the employee . |
| 30 | Cos I thought that he had the wrong number ! |