Example sentences of "have was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only you could of had was the snow ! |
| 2 | ‘ I may not have been the tallest , nor the most athletic — Mick Doyle reckoned I only ever jumped from my shoulders up — but what I did have was the most effective arse in world rugby ’ . |
| 3 | What they did have was the word ‘ Leeds ’ : often the only English word they knew , passed on to them by relatives who had been early immigrants . |
| 4 | S. S. The only bit of crowd trouble we had was the Catholics on the north side of the division and the Orangemen on the south side ; when the 12th of July was approaching there used to be a bit of trouble . |
| 5 | The last horse we ever had was the best , a plump little Dales pony called Thomas . |
| 6 | All I ever had was the job . |
| 7 | The only protection they had was the car itself . |
| 8 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 9 | Increasingly labour was forced off the land , and the only right workers had was the right to sell their labour for a money wage . |
| 10 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 11 | All she had was the image of a woman lying on the ground and people desperate to help her . |
| 12 | All that he had was the blackjack , and that would n't do it . |
| 13 | ‘ The style that EVO had was the one I particularly picked up on ’ , says Miles . |
| 14 | One of the main concerns that Vernon had was the mess that was caused by throwing , his words , the bales down , and they were breaking open . |
| 15 | All she had was the conviction that he desired her , despite himself . |
| 16 | What I had was the sa same sort of |