Example sentences of "had [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , they only had them the the er rescue operations , rescue men . |
| 2 | We had them the other night . " |
| 3 | No longer had she the ache of longing for that stretch of white road leading round to the sycamores . |
| 4 | Mrs Sugden meant no harm to anyone , but neither had she the intelligence to be really kind . |
| 5 | Nor had she the slightest desire to become involved in her aunt 's quarrel . |
| 6 | If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product . |
| 7 | Even had he the strength , the swim would take him out from the protection of the cliff . |
| 8 | This appears , sadly , to be the situation in many countries , and suggestions like the one from the WHO document Social and health aspects of sexually transmitted disease ( 1977 ) that ‘ it is essential for clinics to have the basic equipment required for making rapid diagnosis : the darkfield examination , a quick micro-flocculation test for syphilis , and smear and culture of specimens for gonorrhoea ’ are not much use to a health worker in a village in India , who , far from considering buying a microscope , can not obtain the antibiotics needed to cure gonorrhoea had he the facilities for diagnosing it . |
| 9 | He could not leave her here even had he the courage to go up into that vast nothingness above … |
| 10 | Even if Madeleine were able to convince Aubrey that she loved him and was willing to wait for him , had he the moral right to ask her to do so ? |
| 11 | I invite the student of the air war to compute Harris 's achievements with 1,625 aircraft and consider how much sooner we could have achieved victory in Europe had he the support of the promised 3,500 aircraft , and the entire Chiefs-of-Staff Committee . |
| 12 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 13 | Sandy and Dave had it the same . |
| 14 | This dream : I had it the night after Mum-in-the-mud , the night after English Lit when I 'd sat and stared at these dead simple questions — I mean , ‘ Examine Mark Antony 's friends , Romans , Countrymen speech with a view to its effect on a modern audience ’ . |
| 15 | HORATIO : Not from his mouth , had it the ability of life to thank you : He never gave commandment for their death . |
| 16 | Now the funny thing about it , when I took metallurgy I got , I , I got all this process I knew all about it you know , and er I had it the theory explained to me then , but er I was in the Bell one day about twenty years ago and an old boy came in and I started talking to him and he says , I bet you do n't know what I am ? |
| 17 | I had it the other day over s some occasion when I had to go on some t television and the reporter said what 's the Home Secretary gon na do about it . |
| 18 | had it the last time . |
| 19 | I had it the coat , I 've just taken my coat off |
| 20 | And , we had it the one with the gear box . |