Example sentences of "that [pron] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think main that I had the chance to work with a very good choral society . |
| 2 | It was there that I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Stella Gawthrop , who has not only the distinction of being a pathfinder for the breed in the UK , but having emigrated to South Africa , has also been of great assistance to the newly formed clubs there . |
| 3 | Even when I was a schoolboy I was able to disguise it because my parents made sure that I had the best of footwear specially made to build up my right foot without making it obvious that this was the case . |
| 4 | I knew that I wanted neither , but was n't sure that I had the strength or conviction to refuse them should they be prescribed . |
| 5 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He said that I had the ability to be not only Britain 's top sprinter but also number one in Europe . |
| 8 | I wished intensely that I had the power to see into Filmer 's mind . |
| 9 | At that time we also ran a children 's hospital , so that I had the opportunity of seeing the effects of treatment on acute surgical cases , both pre- and post-operatively , as well as dealing with some fairly ill children and a good mix of diagnostic and management problems in the adult unit . |
| 10 | I told him that I had the one that was n't — but had no symptoms at all and even felt ‘ high ’ . |
| 11 | To my astonishment the words came flooding back , and for some ten minutes , while the train lay cocooned in a web of silence and darkness , I continued my singing , grateful that I had the compartment to myself . |
| 12 | Indeed it was one of the most shocking stories of police corruption and legal incompetence I had ever read , and believing that I had the ability to rectify it , I decided , whatever my other commitments , that I must bring it to public notice as soon as possible . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Would that I had the luxury of a museum director to track down and obtain credit for works by other artists that owe even superficial debts to my work . |
| 15 | Finally , foreign museums started contacting the Ministry of Culture and asking if they could buy , let us say , a picture by Malévich or Popova , and then it became clear that I had the pictures . |
| 16 | And that I had the nerve and the cheek , the audacity to be tired at fifteen years of age i i it it it was n't possible . |
| 17 | In his memoirs he wrote , ‘ It was during my visit to Bulgaria that I had the idea of installing missiles with nuclear warheads in Cuba without letting the United States find out they were there until it was too late to do anything about them ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 493 ) . |
| 18 | I am still rather surprised that I had the good sense for once in my life to follow my hunch and come and see you . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's true that I had the opportunity to be alone in the office , and we both know that I was angry and said a lot of things in the heat of the moment … but would I really be this vindictive ? ’ |
| 20 | I recognised at school that I had the talent to become a politician when , at the end of a particularly bad term , the headmaster wrote on my report , ’ One can not help but be quite captivated by him , provided one gives him no work to do . ’ |
| 21 | The council that I had the honour to serve was Bradford which , from October 1988 , suffered the so-called ’ people 's revolution ’ . |
| 22 | When the gentleman in your office , however , addressed me not as Mrs Maitland , but by my maiden name , which is the one I write under , I realized that it must indeed be me who was being phoned , whereupon it suddenly seemed ( perhaps only by association of ideas ) imperative that I had the means of writing to hand . |
| 23 | honestly felt a wee bit nervous at the start just to make sure that I had the structure , that , that , I think that was the whole crux of the thing . |
| 24 | In Joffre 's own words , that night ‘ I wished more than at any time of my life that I had the gift of omnipresence . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She was flying , just within the still pocket of air , but enough to know that she had the power . |
| 28 | Now that she had the money she needed , she was singing happily . |
| 29 | Kylie reportedly admitted in November 1988 that she had the problem back under control . |
| 30 | A doctor jilted by a nurse took revenge by falsely diagnosing that she had the Aids virus . |