Example sentences of "had [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although that struggle brought about changes in the formal relationship between the press and politicians , it did not fundamentally alter the natural attraction that these two spheres had for each other . |
| 2 | Even that did n't alter the respect they had for each other . |
| 3 | Resolving the question of whether palaeocurrent flow in Torridonian Scotland was predominantly westerly or northerly is important to those interested in Scotland 's geological history , but has less external interest than the solution of the genetic code problem had for all biologists . |
| 4 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 5 | He encouraged us also to get more involved in equine matters , considering the potential Ireland had for such things . |
| 6 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 7 | The Formosans had for many decades suffered from imperial Chinese indifference and neglect , and a substantial minority of the island 's non-Japanese inhabitants benefited from the new economic and educational policies and enjoyed rising living standards . |
| 8 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 9 | Moreover I can reveal that the findings of the Committee were certainly not those indicated in this letter ; we found that Derry Corporation had for many years been carrying out a policy of anti-Rome Catholic discrimination in employment and rigid segregation in housing . |
| 10 | NUTFIELD PRIORY , AN enormous Victorian Gothic mansion near Reigate , had for many years been a school for the blind . |
| 11 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 12 | A Manchester family of Magnall , who also had business interests in London , had for many years borne arms without authority , and on 19 February 1765 Thomas Magnall was granted bearings blazoned argent on a mount vert a swepe ( or balista ) azure — a swepe/balista being a large siege catapult . |
| 13 | In that case the appellant rendering company and their predecessors had for many years carried on various offensive trades , namely blood boiling , bone boiling , fat extracting , fat melting , tallow melting and tripe boiling , without concealment , to the knowledge of the local authority and under the control of their inspectors . |
| 14 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 15 | Late in life he married a member of the Wilkinson family ( whose firm had for many years been solicitors to the College ) . |
| 16 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 17 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 18 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 19 | The membership also included Derek Senior , who had for many years been advocating a fundamental reorganisation of local government . |
| 20 | For adult offenders these had for many years been confined to absolute or conditional discharges , fines and probation orders . |
| 21 | In this context a Soviet writer observed with chagrin that the United States administration , in calling into question the right-of the USSR to take part in measures to guarantee the freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf in the aftermath of Brezhnev 's initiative , had forgotten that America had for many years carried out negotiations with the USSR over the Indian Ocean , ‘ of which the Persian Gulf is a component part ’ . |
| 22 | Its clerks had for many years to work in ‘ dark , stuffy offices , with smoke-grimed ceilings and an atmosphere compounded of overnight gas-burning and the indefinable mouldiness of adjacent ’ bookrooms ’ ‘ . |
| 23 | The Barker family had for many years been involved in mining , with for example , the Champions in their mines in Ireland . |
| 24 | She also read the message in italics printed beneath the cartoon , to the effect that the cartoonist responsible had for many years been officially connected with a provincial newspaper and was now , in the sunset of his life , himself the recipient of twice-weekly Meals on Wheels . |
| 25 | ( The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic had become a member on April 7 , 1948 , but had for many years maintained only token participation in the organization . ) |
| 26 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 27 | I had for many months loved her from afar . |
| 28 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 29 | While the Bakufu administration had for several decades been subject to criticisms from within its own ranks , a more serious threat to its supremacy emerged from within domains traditionally hostile to it . |
| 30 | This agreement ( which gave formal recognition to what had for several decades been becoming established practice ) brings out well the complexities and ambiguities inherent in much of the administrative structure of old-regime Europe . |