Example sentences of "had a [noun] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't had a minute to myself since the fête opened . |
| 3 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 4 | The heavier atomic bits — the stuff that goes to make up the planets — they had to wait until later until they 'd had a chance to be built up . |
| 5 | I mean yes er as I said earlier on it 's just a question for for just a bit more obviously in the readings report th there is there is concern naturally with the by-passes in paragraph two five I mean I have n't had a chance to sort of looking up yet , and I 'd by grateful for County Executive 's advice on that and I thought we as a County Council had agreed a line erm for a by-pass through the West Sussex portion at least . |
| 6 | you see up to now she has n't had a chance to okay maybe it 's erm |
| 7 | She thought you 'd probably never had a bathroom to yourself and that you 'd appreciate something a bit special . ’ |
| 8 | Liza had always had a tendency to wildness . |
| 9 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 10 | Youth Club The club had recently had a trip to Beecraigs for a barbecue with Corstorphine Youth Club . |
| 11 | Youth Club The club had recently had a trip to Beecraigs for a barbecue with Corstorphine Youth Club . |
| 12 | Moving offices and such at work , in fact we ve just had a drink to ‘ celebrate ’ so please excuse any slurred words and the like … |
| 13 | I have had a reference to bovine excrement splashed in red ink across an entire manuscript page . |
| 14 | This close association of Church and Party may well have had a cost to the Church in limiting recruitment to people who are not committed supporters of the Official Unionist Party but , given that the DUP support is twenty times the size of the Free Church and that there is a large uncommitted population , this is probably not something which explains why more people do not join the Free Church . |
| 15 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 16 | Dick has had a ministry to businessmen for many years . |
| 17 | Jack had had a good to middling season and with pro-ams and the occasional exhibition match I had earned nearly £8000 . |
| 18 | Even the son had had a tang to him , although he had proved surprisingly hard to digest at the end . |
| 19 | There was always a rumour that Noreen had had a baby to an Italian , but they had never heard the truth of it in Ireland . |
| 20 | Elizabeth had had a baby to the duke and Georgiana bore one to Charles , Earl Gray , a member of the famous tea family . |
| 21 | Tony and Matt are both experienced cavers , they have the right equipment , have had a guide to the mines produced by the Northern Association of Caving Clubs , and , more importantly , Matt at least has done this sort of thing before , or as he said , If I remember rightly … " |
| 22 | He could have wandered unchecked all over north London if he had had a mind to it , but this was supposed to be Bienvida 's party and he and Bienvida were supposed to be there . |
| 23 | which you you 've obviously had a mind to because you 've done the breakdown about the various other regions , |
| 24 | What with all the activity and everything , I 've hardly had a moment to myself . |
| 25 | She has been trying to stake a claim which I vow to you on my honour she has never had a right to . |
| 26 | I have not had a reply to a series of letters that I have sent , nor has the prospective Labour candidate in my constituency . |
| 27 | Today I have had a reply to a parliamentary question to the Minister , which tells me the latest figures of young people currently in young offender institutions . |