Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] have the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians . |
| 2 | The Bank of England sought to have the bank declared insolvent , to allow depositors compensation from the UK 's Deposit Protection Fund ( which paid 75 per cent of deposits up to £15,000 ) . |
| 3 | As a compromise the Running Foreman agreed to have the engine fully prepared and ready . |
| 4 | Okar claimed to have the support of several bodies which had been critical of the present government , particularly the Nigerian Labour Congress , the Bar Association and the unions of journalists and students . |
| 5 | Riding on again , down the road which they thought would be the easiest route to the Fire Court , Fenella began to have the feeling that the twisty Tree stumps were not Tree stumps at all , but horrid , stunted living things and that malicious ancient eyes looked out from their depths . |
| 6 | Celtic did have the ball in the net in ten minutes , but Frank McAvennie was clearly offside when he pounced to beat Theo Smelders from eight yards . |
| 7 | She was not afraid of the dark , because when she was very little Maggie had had the last few scales of Fenna 's tail to suck on while she fell asleep . |
| 8 | She had understood that Frank had to have the bike . |
| 9 | Berle hoped to have the British blamed for breaking up the conference , as he knew he had the support of the Latin American states and some European countries . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel sure that if the Corporation of Exeter had had the facts of the present case brought before them they would never have insisted upon the payment of a toll which they clearly would have had no right to insist on if the plaintiff had but claimed exemption upon landing the limestone . |
| 11 | In his June 8 announcement Shamir claimed to have the allegiance of 62 members of the 120-seat Knesset ( parliament ) : 40 seats from Likud , the rest from three small religious parties ( Shas , Mafgal ( the National Religious Party ) and Degel Hatorah ) and three right-wing nationalist parties ( Moledet , Tehiya and Tzomet ) , and three individuals , including a Labour Party defector , Ephraim Gur . |
| 12 | After all , Dickens had had the decency to keep it to himself , not go telling the world about it . |
| 13 | IMP had to have the latest print-outs of the disaster . |
| 14 | At least the Rabiers had had the good sense to leave the inside of the château as it had been , at any rate on this floor . |
| 15 | But Frohnmayer seemed to have the President 's confidence , and until Buchanan 's remarkably strong showing against Bush in the New Hampshire primary , his position had seemed reasonably secure . |
| 16 | England had lost two series to Australia and looked a fairly ordinary outfit ; despite their experience in Australia , West Indies looked to have the better all-round team , and Greig 's ‘ forecast ’ seemed altogether ill-advised . |
| 17 | After the drama of the tied first Test , Australia won the second by seven wickets and West Indies the third by 222 runs ; as the fourth neared its close , West Indies appeared to have the game in their hands , only for the last Australian pair to survive for an hour and forty minutes and earn a draw ; and the final Test was won by Australia with just two wickets left . |
| 18 | ‘ the burden is upon the defendant , Mr. Smith , to satisfy the court on the balance of probabilities that Mr. Winterbone did have the necessary capacity . |
| 19 | Owen had had the house cleared and the servant who let Sesostris in was one of his own men . |
| 20 | Defries had had the same idea . |
| 21 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 22 | Dallas seemed to have the game in their hands after Aikman 's two five-yard touchdown passes to Jay Novacek earned them a 17-7 half-time lead . |
| 23 | In Washington , meanwhile , Mr Smick struggled to have the five-page letter translated . |
| 24 | And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth . |
| 25 | It is evident that the priests who served St Martin knew how to jade a horse and to attribute its state to the saint 's intervention ; and if Gibbon had had the slightest suspicion of how the miracle had been performed he would have used a much stronger form of irony than a mere italicizing of the word itself . |
| 26 | I began to wish Lou Vecchi had had the brains to get out of the country . |
| 27 | Apart for his incongruously white hair , Amaldi seemed to have the mental lucidity and expected energy of a man half his age . |
| 28 | Kate began to have the feeling that she was caught by forces stronger than her , that she was in the power of some strange vortex that was spinning her around so fast that she no longer knew how to keep control . |
| 29 | Of the quintet Bradley looked to have the best chance : second in the Gold Cup in 1982 and a gutsy winner of the Hennessy , the nine-year-old Bregawn was clearly a chaser of great ability , though he had begun to show signs of temperament , being reluctant to line up for the start on occasion . |
| 30 | Galileo did have the insight to perceive that the effect was probably the same as that when a drop of water would remain on a cabbage leaf . |