Example sentences of "had [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In casual , chatty tones , she told me that " my news " had n't penetrated to her Surrey retreat , and in fact had n't reached her until an hour ago when she 'd arrived , having had nothing to the contrary since last year , to keep the traditional family tryst at my father 's house . |
| 2 | Unfortunately for the Lions , as the French persist in calling them , they will have had nothing like the preparation time of their opponents . |
| 3 | To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) . |
| 4 | You 've certainly had them in the past , ’ she reminded him , ignoring the small , unexpected twist of pain inside her as she said the words . |
| 5 | Ever since he had known her parents , he had had them in the palms of both his hands . |
| 6 | If they 'd come we 'd have had them in the bathroom . |
| 7 | I would of had them in the front . |
| 8 | Erm , and I also understand that this is the first time you 've actually had someone from the private sector , er , whose been invited to er , address your A G M so , I 'd like to thank you for the privilege , and for also for the opportunity to speak on a subject which I personally er , find of of great interest . |
| 9 | ‘ In an ideal world , I would have been delighted to have had someone from the university on the trust . ’ |
| 10 | Since we started doing ‘ proper ’ front covers ( ie , not flogging them to Tom Jones ' and Cilla 's record companies for ads ) in 1972 , the great man has had plenty of the hallowed Page Ones , but others have had more . |
| 11 | ‘ He must have had somebody on the boat , ’ said Owen . |
| 12 | Well you 're very lucky cos so , you might have easily of had nobody in the family |
| 13 | You and I might have done the same if we had been there , though we would have had none of the technical skill and detailed knowledge of Fleming . |
| 14 | No Should have had one in the bedroom last night with next door upstairs . |
| 15 | NUMBER ones from around the world : Bruce Springsteen , who with that manly stubble and grubby string vest has always had something of the macho Mediterranean stud about him , is currently top of the pops in Spain and Italy with Human Touch . |
| 16 | As earnings rank as personalty in any case and they must have had something in the way of moveables , especially those taxed on land , it is reasonable to treat all assessments as though made on goods . |
| 17 | Whether ground was distinguished from sky in any other way than by being outlined against it the evidence so far cited does not tell us , but probably some trees and flowers were shown on it , and it may have had something in the nature of shading . |
| 18 | had a girl from another troop Lynn somebody ca n't remember her last name any way her first name was Lynn and as rumour had it , she 'd had everybody in the bedroom |
| 19 | He remembered their girl as she had been when he first had her through the system in Denver . |
| 20 | A good American would have had her in the kitchen with a flue-brush , or making pastry , by now . |
| 21 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 22 | I could not help feeling that if we could have had him from the moment of the return of Civil Government Burma would have been in a happier and more disciplined condition , ready to see the real task which the nation would have to face as soon as its political future was decided . |
| 23 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 24 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 25 | She might have just had it off the hook yesterday . |
| 26 | We 've had it into the major research laboratories around the world who specialise in security . |
| 27 | around about it , like whether we liked it or not , whether he was , it was a good thing to have had it , we should have been better not to have had it with the situation at the time , you know , that kind of mulling over might be |
| 28 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 29 | Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon . |
| 30 | Er , probably Paul 's had it for the night . |