Example sentences of "had at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easy on the whisky — there is not much left after the great crack we had at the McLaggans ’ . |
| 2 | Mr Berge , appointed in September last year by his friend President Mitterrand , opened the conference with the declaration that despite the jealous and envious reports of the foreign press they now had at the Opera a ‘ welded team ’ and were in a condition of being ‘ resonant and reasonable ’ . |
| 3 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 4 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 5 | In Time magazine on the eve of the hearings Walter Shapiro offered advice for congressmen wishing to become stars , as Sam Ervin had at the Watergate hearings : they should play to the cameras , should not be afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves , and should never make the mistake of reading their questions . |
| 6 | She had at the back of her mind the thought that some new male companion might figure in it . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher expressed confidence that she would win and declared again , as she had at the outset , that even if she did not win outright she would continue to a second ballot no matter how narrow the margin of her majority over Heseltine . |
| 8 | Everybody talks about the five he had at the end and the last hole , but he missed less than a two-foot putt on the first in the first round . |
| 9 | the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail . |
| 10 | They both headed the list with the responsibilities they had at the time . |
| 11 | The two strangers flanked Dorothy , making her wonder , as she had at the PopCon building , whether she could get away . |
| 12 | He had been as surprised and chagrined at her choice as he had at the prospect of taking up a new job with an unknown PA , but there had been an additional and more disturbing reaction . |
| 13 | But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals . |
| 14 | She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report . |
| 15 | It is impossible to describe all the uplifting and thought-provoking sessions we had at the Farm , but an especially wonderful experience for me was the fantasy meditation . |
| 16 | He did n't know what Lewis meant about someone looking after the house but no doubt he , Adam , had at the time concocted some tale to keep his father quiet , to keep him away even . |
| 17 | The memories they described in response to the stimulus were highly specific and no longer consciously recollected ; on experiencing the memory they also relived the feelings they had at the time . |
| 18 | A VIDEO of the robbery showed the thief with a plaster cast on his hand — exactly like the one Nick Moore had at the time . |
| 19 | She picked up another letter , and again read aloud : ‘ I think of you often and of the happy times we had at The Hall , and they were happy times . |
| 20 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 21 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 22 | It was a crazy idea , but it was all he had at the moment . |
| 23 | I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce . |
| 24 | But the battles I had at the BBC over The Monocled Mutineer and Tumbledown ! |
| 25 | Gone , for example , is the cherished place that easel painting once had at the head of the hierarchy of media . |
| 26 | We must be cautious , though , in making the assumption that such words as ‘ king ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ Messiah ’ still convey to us the meaning which they had at the time and in the world of Jesus . |
| 27 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 28 | Since neither [ defendant ] had at the time of the removal of the goods from the shelves and of the label switching assumed all the rights of the owner , there was no appropriation and therefore no theft . |
| 29 | The worst problem I had at the palace was the Queen 's dwarf . |
| 30 | The social worker I had at the time kept coming to see me in Low Newton and saying , ‘ Do you not think it 's best if you get him adopted ? ’ |