Example sentences of "[noun] had [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Yanks had in fact had them for some months in the Scullery apartment . |
| 2 | Such treatment may reflect the readership the authors had in mind . |
| 3 | The Lords of the Congregation could rightly assert the duty and responsibility of the nobility to act for the good of the commonweal , and indeed experience of minorities over two centuries had in practice underwritten the theoretical position to an unusual extent . |
| 4 | So there they were , Vinkelkopf and Stu , lording it at Squire 's or Squires ' Wine Bar as the case may be , when who should step in but some vieille flamme of Herr Vinkel 's , and this Fräulein had in tow none other than what turned out to be our own dear Gillian . |
| 5 | Elsewhere there was no need to set up special bodies , but it is clear that much local administration had in practice to be devolved into the hands of local men . |
| 6 | Scott J concluded that if this were a case in which there was any question or threat of general disclosure by the defendant of confidential information concerning the way in which the plaintiff carried on its business or concerning any details of the affairs of any of its clients there would be no answer to the claim for an injunction ; but it was not general disclosure that the defendant had in mind . |
| 7 | It was difficult to sleep that night , not only because the floor was hard , but because we could n't escape the worry of what the future had in store for us . |
| 8 | Needless to say , plants had to evolve before animals : i.e. they had to become the food for which primitive animals had in turn to colonize the land to seek . |
| 9 | We did not want to be the cause of friction ; but as we were unable to ascertain what the Club had in mind by way of arrangements , we proposed tea or dinner , or , if he were not being entertained in the evening , both . |
| 10 | The late James Currie had in common with all comedians a voracious appetite for new material . |
| 11 | These appear to be the assumptions that Musgrave had in mind : ‘ that the size distribution of income originating in various industries is the same [ or ] there is a random relationship between the distributional origin of expenditures on any particular product and the distributional destination of factor payments ’ ( Musgrave , et al. , 1964 , p. 201 ) . |
| 12 | So whether you 're tidying away some of those large toys that the kids had for Christmas , and have got fed-up with , storing a few treasures in the loft , using it as a laundry or shopping basket , or even to clear up the garden rubbish , the ‘ Monster ’ will take it . |
| 13 | Within two days of the discovery that funds had in fact been diverted , Poindexter was obliged to resign ; North was fired ; and the open-mouthed press descended like locusts . |
| 14 | Violence , sexual scandal and murder had of course been seized on by Mary 's sixteenth-century detractors as admirable means of blackening the character of a major political figure — particularly a female political figure . |
| 15 | She can spare you but a few minutes , she says — ’ the dowager-duchess had in fact said no such thing ‘ — but will see you at once . ’ |
| 16 | He prepared to give himself over to whatever fate Lucifer had in store for him . |
| 17 | Ottoman rule had in effect atomized society . |
| 18 | Slowly it became clear that what Labour had in mind was a circular we had sent out three months earlier to health authority chairmen for comment , entitled Co-operation between the NHS and the private sector at district level . |
| 19 | Within months , some clients had in excess of 25 dealers contacting them from the same firm ; many were also being contacted from other licensed dealers . |
| 20 | That confiture d'oignons , for instance , for which the recipe appeared in Michel Guérard 's Cuisine Gourmande and which has since made the tour du monde surely derived from Pomiane 's dish of sweet-sour onions in which the sweetening elements were sultanas and pain d " épices , the spiced honey cake of central Europe , and which Pomiane had in turn borrowed from the Jewish cookery of his native Poland . |
| 21 | Local community action had in fact failed to make any important impact on the larger social and economic political structures in Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | The thought of the forthcoming windfall reminded Rev. Levitt that his last wedding had in fact been that of Mrs Cohen 's elder daughter . |
| 23 | What he sees is not what Durkheim had in mind and what Claudia was trying to detect . |
| 24 | Congar had in point of fact expressed himself cautiously enough , yet several of his books were proscribed . |
| 25 | Israel 's negotiator , Itamar Rabinovitch , replied that he needed to hear in far greater detail what sort of peace Syria had in mind . |
| 26 | In returning to the old imagery of the prince as the bearer of the sword , the reformers had in fact triggered off an important set of associations . |
| 27 | Purists had of course drawn on medical and evolutionary concepts , but always with the proviso that they were subordinate to the dictates of a higher morality . |
| 28 | Certainly , when Yeats chaired the Irish Senate committee that commissioned the Irish coinage ( so wonderfully handsome as it turned out to be ) , it was photographs of Sicilian Greek coins that went out to prospective designers to show them what the committee had in mind . |
| 29 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ While I respectfully agree that recommendations of a committee may not help much when there is a possibility that Parliament may have decided to do something different , where there is no such possibility , as where the draft Bill has been enacted without alteration , in my opinion it can safely be assumed that it was Parliament 's intention to do what the committee recommended and to achieve the object the committee had in mind . |