Example sentences of "had [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 2 | A male without testes would live longer than a , than a male with them , undoubtedly , on average five to seven years longer , and erm generally be more healthy in terms of avoiding a lot of problems that , that they might have had through being male . |
| 3 | That nerve-racking encounter with Julius had dashed any hopes Jessamy had ever had of being able to get a good night 's sleep . |
| 4 | ( 198 ) above , for example , is uttered by a young lady who is recounting to her horrified mother the experience she has just had of being thrown into prison and badly treated after being arrested in a bar brawl . |
| 5 | And it 's a blue chip brochure and I think obviously what I needing now after by the experience I 've had with is to get behind a company who will give me the backing . |
| 6 | After all this I 've had with being late you know ? |
| 7 | I wanted to give back something for the great interest and happiness I have had from being able to make music to people . |
| 8 | He would have had to be as different as T. S. Eliot ; and there 's an end of that speculation ! |
| 9 | ‘ Although it is argued that fear of punitive jury awards has made the US business safety-conscious , quite a price has had to be paid for that by way of corporate and insurance company bankruptcy , the closing of municipal facilities and the practice of defensive medicine . ’ |
| 10 | It was cut out of conference papers and replaced with a notice slipped into the file saying : ‘ The proposed paper on the Aids monitor has unfortunately had to be withdrawn , since it has not been possible to synchronise the publication with the Health Education Authority 's own report on the 1988 data , expected in the near future . ’ |
| 11 | Meanwhile , the decision to sell Saatchi 's ailing business consultancy division has put additional strains on Saatchi management and a number of senior managers have had to be moved to new positions . |
| 12 | With cemeteries to maintain all over the world it is nor surprising that a variety of arrangements , contracts and agreements have had to be set up to ensure proper care and maintenance . |
| 13 | He exposes the vague way in which Read deploys scientific vocabulary , pointing out how much work had had to be done by a great many people and already popularized , before a literary critic could talk in this way . |
| 14 | It is now commonplace to say that the Thatcher governments have had to be highly interventionist in order to extend the market , increase the rights of consumers , and reduce producer power . |
| 15 | Perhaps other parties , simply because they have lacked the British Labour party 's advantages , have necessarily had to be more adaptable and willing to make alliances . |
| 16 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that everything in this world has had to be designed ? ’ asks Sir Terence Conran , pausing for the significance of his question to sink in . |
| 17 | In Art History the rehabilitation of artists and bodies of work which have been overlooked has been going on since Vasari made such a good job of classifying Florentine art that all other art in Italy and beyond has had to be defined , at least until this century , and at some level even now , in relation to Vasari 's classifications , or at least in relation to the model of stylistic evolution which he outlined . |
| 18 | Perhaps if the National Front had been excluded , the racism they stand for would have had to be faced up to , ‘ making it worse ’ for those very genteel people in charge of education . |
| 19 | And now a third major part has had to be changed . |
| 20 | An attempt was made to preserve a sense of the large , formerly unitary space of the mill 's second storey which had had to be subdivided to create the dining- and food preparation rooms , by ‘ unifying ’ the stair hall and dining-room through very large sliding doors which formed the end panels of the dining-room rear wall . |
| 21 | Ever since William had started school , Diana had had to be based in the south . |
| 22 | A government-financed horticulture nursery in Belfast falsified the value of its plants for 13 years to the extent that more than £500,000 of public money has had to be written off . |
| 23 | Dusty samples have had to be unearthed for his refreshment . |
| 24 | The National Audit Office , Parliament 's financial watchdog , in a report published yesterday estimates that another £330 million has had to be paid out to cover ‘ premature maintenance . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've had to be very , very careful and say ‘ you ca n't afford it ’ . ’ |
| 26 | Surrey managers said that many elderly day patients who would normally be carried by non-emergency crews have had to be readmitted to hospital in the past three months . |
| 27 | Yesterday Mr Olsen said the company had been approached by CITIC about the possible purchase of a holding back in November and the talks had reached a point at which they had had to be made public . |
| 28 | The popularity of road transport has meant that railways have either had short shrift , as in Britain , where investment per kilometre is about one-third that in France , or have had to be heavily subsidized , as in France and Germany . |
| 29 | The Lanes ' vat has had to be fitted with a new stainless steel liner . |
| 30 | The Gospel Green wooden truckle ends have had to be replaced with pvc equivalents to satisfy current health standard requirements . |