Example sentences of "had by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only to find , first , that genuinely ill as he was , he had missed the local paper saying the psychopath had been caught , and that the compulsive liar Brenda had been telling everyone he was her lover , a rumour that had got back to his wife whose mac he had by mistake worn during the murder and had been unable to destroy . |
| 2 | These were the Jews who helped maintain the camp and who , like Wolski , had by luck and chance avoided the death that fell upon the majority of the 250,000 Jews who came to Sobibor . |
| 3 | The question I return to , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , is always the same : I put everything into this , everything I had by way of mind and body and heart , and this is what I have produced . |
| 4 | What they had by way of this was largely impressionistic , qualitative and suggestive rather than confirmatory . |
| 5 | The steward told me how the management , had by chance , come across records of the women 's wages . |
| 6 | Mr Wood works with the South Eastern Education Board and said Northern Ireland 's Education Minister , Michael Ancram , had by contrast taken consultation seriously and announced a slowing up of the reform process to get it right . |
| 7 | The two factors combined to foster the belief that to be a patriot a Cuban had by definition to be anti-United States . |
| 8 | In my case it was also different , for though I had done no criminal act I had by force of circumstance set sail for Koraloona to build a new life there . |
| 9 | ‘ That it appears to this Committee that the conduct of the Secretary has been highly culpable in inspecting and exposing the contents of papers of a private nature belonging to the professor which had by accident fallen into his ( the Secretary 's ) hands . |
| 10 | In his statement of claim the plaintiff admitted that since termination of the contract he had by reason of continuing to work within the insurance industry acted in such a way that , if the contract were still subsisting , he would have been in breach of clause 9A . |