Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment .
2 The first was that , with the passage in 1832 of the Reform Bill came the full realisation that parliamentary reform had done nothing for the emergent working class , except to isolate it .
3 If his wife had put anything on the cake it would be long gone by now .
4 The bank had organized everything concerning the various consultants , the share price , and the prospectus — a forty-page , glossy volume about the company 's structure , trading situation , and future plans .
5 Since the crux pitch is ( F6a ) , the climbers who bolted the route had assumed anyone on the route was good enough not to need bolts on the grade-4 pitches .
6 He thought it was maybe just er the driver had taken someone to the church was waiting to go back for them .
7 Gregory of Tours and Bede both knew that the conversion of their peoples to Christianity had done something to the religion to which they were converted .
8 It was a disgraceful act which I do not condone , but I am almost certain my son had done nothing of the kind before .
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