Example sentences of "had at " in BNC.

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1 After the day I 'd had at work .
2 Nice clothes can also be had at the dollar stores run by the Cubans and the Bulgarians , whose recent low price sales have angered Angolan higher-ups .
3 Use this where your employee is leaving and has had at least four days ' SSP in the last eight weeks of the contract .
4 AN ENTERPRISING US firm is offering guides to US government auctions , where drug traffickers ' property can be had at bargain basement rates .
5 Other social pressures , chief among them that of patronage in an age in which patronage had unprecedented importance in Roman society , must have had at least as great an importance .
6 Now , with the exception of Lorenzi , who has a young daughter to think about , they can all play full-time in the States — or even , were it to materialise , on the women 's world tour McCormack has long had at the back of his mind .
7 It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips .
8 And I 've had at least three real girlfriends , so there must be more to me than bad skin , frizzy hair and a slouch .
9 For men , the biggest threat was to their shirts , with over a third claiming to have had at least one ruined .
10 Thus , they remain one of the few fungal orders that have not had at least one member grown from spore to spore in artificial culture , a prerequisite for any sort of genetic , physiological or biochemical research .
11 So far I have been very fortunate and have had at least one painting accepted each time I have tried .
12 ASSURED TENANCIES — residential tenancies in properties that are newly built or have had at least £5000 spent on improving them in the two years before they were first let .
13 For instance , among the veritable rarities that have come my way in that time , I have had at least as many disappointments as pleasant surprises .
14 Packs of Zener diodes can be had at reasonable prices , but as these components do not feature in many projects these days , you could well be buying a two hundred year supply !
15 ‘ They are great pals , the prince enjoys her company and he has found her of great help in the recent troubles he has had at home .
16 After four and a quarter years , some firms will already have had at least two visits and many in category 1 will be facing a second visit in the near future .
17 And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) .
18 We must have done because they talked , as we drove , of common friends we had had at that time , but I remembered none of them — or only a name , here and there .
19 A very pleasant day trip can be spent journeying through the pretty Suffolk villages of Little Cavendish and Long Melford , and the medieval town of Lavenham where a delicious meal is to be had at the Swan .
20 That had been an awful tea they 'd had at five o'clock ; two slices of bread and fat , a slab of hard cake and a bowl of milk ; then nothing else , only a drink of water , if they wanted one , before they came to bed , and it only half-past seven .
21 The stock market crash of the 1930s meant that British watercolours were to be had at bargain prices , with major compositions costing less than £20 .
22 ‘ It 's the best start I 've had at the beginning of an English county season , ’ the 6′ 5½ ″ strike bowler admits .
23 Three out of four children are aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of 5 whether the parents smoke or not ; at 10 years old as many as 40% of boys and 28% of girls have had at least a few puffs of a cigarette [ 1 ] and about one third of those who become regular smokers have started before age 9 [ 2 ] .
24 Thirty-six of the unemployed ( 62 per cent ) had never worked since leaving school , while the rest had had at least one job during that time , but had subsequently become unemployed .
25 But one may also say , from the fact that this has needed to be discussed — and from the fact that , as I say , throughout the greater part of Christendom women have not been ordained — it would be difficult to argue that the fact that this religion has had at its centre a male figure has been of little significance .
26 How much more money might he have had at his disposal ?
27 Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion .
28 He considered the matter as he might have done when he was only half a century old in what he still called the ‘ swinging ’ sixties , when lunch for two might be had at Alvaro 's for a five pound note and his column ‘ Jottings ’ by Haverford Downs in the weekly Informer had been described on the wireless as ‘ Max Beerbohm with a social conscience ’ .
29 I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy .
30 It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother .
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