Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the beef regime — a second area that we have not yet discussed — there is another reason why it might be thought that the hon. Gentleman was a little premature in suggesting that we had already agreed these matters . |
| 2 | In announcing that he had signed the legislation , Bush issued a statement in which he expressed strong distaste for several ( unidentified ) provisions , and criticized as " unnecessary " the bill 's central attempt to define covert action . |
| 3 | ‘ He mentioned in passing that you had a lot of female visitors , that 's all . |
| 4 | Jane had no hesitation in refusing although she had no work offered after that particular season . |
| 5 | At the time , I was far from alone in wondering if he had not wandered further down that path than he knew , whether the playboy and gilded youth had not taken over from the redoubtable fighter . |
| 6 | When Leith was not mutinying against him , she was alternately engaged — while still producing a fair output of work — in wondering if he had really been serious about taking her to Parkwood to meet Travis 's parents this weekend . |
| 7 | The duty was a subjective one , as in considering whether it had been broken , the court had to take account of the resources of the occupier . |
| 8 | The court was unanimous in holding that it had such a right . |
| 9 | At one time , I think I 'm right in saying that they had two hundred people . |
| 10 | The pagan contemporaries of Constantine were not wrong in saying that he had carried through a huge religious and social revolution . |
| 11 | Yet he could return to Cairo with a justifiable sense of pride in knowing that he had delivered what he had promised . |
| 12 | But there was no point in speculating until she had some facts . |
| 13 | The first question which has been considered on this appeal is whether the justices were right in thinking that they had power in an appropriate case to order that there should be no contact between the mother and child under section 34(2) of the Act of 1989 . |
| 14 | Whether or not he was right in thinking that he had allowed his music to be led by and all but overwhelmed by Auden 's words Paul Bunyan marked the end of his close collaboration with Auden . |
| 15 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 16 | On the eve of a second major exhibition of his work at the Tate Gallery ( 17 June-6 September ) , curated , once again , by Richard Morphet and devoted , on this occasion , to his oil paintings , Hamilton spoke to Roger Bevan of his career , his relationship with dealers , the continuing attraction of television , his declining interest in America and his delight in discovering that he had been rediscovered by a younger generation of artists and students . |