Example sentences of "had [verb] with the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all the time , she thought as she sat at her desk nursing the remains of her hangover , Angy had been dead in her little one-room flat , alone and open-eyed , lying where she had fallen with the knife in her throat and her lifeblood flooding her lungs . |
| 2 | Noting that Shawcross had voted with the Government in not opposing the Lords amendments on 22 July , Attlee said that he was very grateful as he knew the strength of Shawcross 's views . |
| 3 | Arthit Kamlang-ek , an influential former Supreme Commander of Armed Forces and Army C.-in-C. , had since May 1988 been leader of the Thai People party , whose 17 members had voted with the government in the July no-confidence motion , and which thus now joined the ruling coalition . |
| 4 | As he had done with the Axis in 1940 and the Allies in 1945 , Franco considered that the foreign powers were in his debt and , therefore , that he , not they , should lay down the terms of Spanish cooperation . |
| 5 | These " Whiggish Jacobites " , as they referred to themselves , produced a number of pamphlets in which they argued that William , through various acts of despotism , had broken the contract he had made with the nation in 1689 , and thus forfeited his right to obedience . |
| 6 | Another reason for expecting fundholders ' referral rates to fall after April 1991 had to do with the way in which their budgets were set . |
| 7 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 8 | Thus NEP as a monetary phenomenon took time to seep slowly through the various levels of society , just as pistoles and écus had competed with the franc in the French provinces after that other great revolution . |
| 9 | The separatist Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) , which had co-operated with the EPRDF in a strategic alliance to bring down the Mengistu government , announced on May 29 that it was to set up its own provisional government in Eritrea , although it would recognize and co-operate with the EPRDF administration in Addis Ababa . |
| 10 | His marriage to Ann , a social worker with the deaf in her own right and a sign language interpreter who had worked with the BDA in the past and would continue to do so , strengthened Verney 's qualifications for his new task . |
| 11 | It was the end of the day that had started with the interview in the dark-panelled room with the clocks . |
| 12 | Others were specifically anti-Republican , and had sided with the conspiracy in the hope that the outcome would be the return of monarchy . |
| 13 | The rebel Movement for Democracy and Development ( MDD ) announced on Oct. 30 that it was repudiating reconciliation agreements which it had signed with the government in Libreville , Gabon , on June 24 [ see pp. 38952 ; 39132 ] . |
| 14 | The privatization programme , which had begun with the opening in June 1990 of the stock exchange [ see p. 37620 ] , was framed in legislation approved in September [ see p. 37724 ] and was the responsibility of the State Property Agency ( SPA ) , which was accused of bureaucracy and delaying tactics caused by an insistence on competitive bidding . |