Example sentences of "had an " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her surprise , there proved to be perceptive judgements about qualities in Michelangelo 's work , almost hidden in catalogue entries ; more than one art historian , apparently , was not only learned but had an eye . |
| 2 | Robert Paine , writing in the Pelican volume on Japan , had an answer : |
| 3 | The English art critic Peter fuller had an honourable record in this respect ; despite Julian Schnabel 's financial success , he refused to be intimidated by market values . |
| 4 | There can be no doubt that he had an ear for what such people have to say for themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ In the Lager , colds and influenza were unknown , but one died , at times suddenly , from illnesses that the doctors never had an opportunity to study . |
| 6 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 7 | The article was by Percy Hoskins , the greatest Commissioners of Police and thieves and villains , who drank champagne at the Caprice , had an apartment in park lane , was an intimate of Lord Beaverbrook , yet kept the common touch . |
| 8 | Had an enemy completely unknown to Peggy travelled to the fête in Little Tuckett with the express purpose of bumping off the fulsome Phipps ? |
| 9 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 10 | When she first arrived at SIS as a student , Anne had an affair with some chap in her year and when it broke up , she decided she wanted to leave . |
| 11 | The scheme had an interior logic to it but in order to see it you had to be , let me see , stark raving mad , I suppose . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , I had an affair with my brother-in-law donkey 's years ago . |
| 13 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 14 | In that same year I was posted to South Shields on the south bank of the River Tyne and quickly became aware that I had an enormous burden to carry , simply because I had spent all of my previous service on ‘ the other side of the river ’ . |
| 15 | She was raped at thirteen and had an orgasm , her first . |
| 16 | I had an au pair once . |
| 17 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 18 | Perhaps that was why people who talked to themselves usually had an abstracted smile : they had accepted they were stark raving mad , loony tunes , round the twist . |
| 19 | He had an audience : perhaps twenty people had gathered round the site , idly expectant , smoking and calling out . |
| 20 | Mrs Cohen was ‘ queen ’ of her domain and , aided by a maid ( suitably attired ) , a nurse for the children ( Leonard had an elder sister , Esther ) , and a chauffeur-gardener ( a coloured man named Kerry ) , they were particularly fortunate . |
| 21 | His secular school-work proceeded as well as that in Hebrew school ; particularly well in English literature where Leonard had an excellent and sympathetic teacher by the name of Waring , ‘ A fond , kindly man , ’ in Leonard 's phrase . |
| 22 | Brought up , as Leonard was , to admire the Romantics and their charming , reliable , amiable world-view , their delight in nature , not least man 's own nature which had an organic relationship with the world by which sensibility and feeling — frequently emphasised as a pleasure-principle , paved the way for his being catapulted into the ‘ surreal ’ world of the Spanish writer . |
| 23 | In ‘ Goodnight Irene ’ , the latter had an outstanding hit , a key point in the development from traditional folk to modern in 1950 . |
| 24 | It was raised by Dudek in somewhat different form when he said that Leonard ‘ always had an image of himself as a rabbi . ’ |
| 25 | Not so quiet was a parallel revolution that was reshaping the music scene , with which Leonard had an ongoing affair . |
| 26 | ‘ You said you had an early start tomorrow . |
| 27 | The point of the experiments was this : strong social pressure was being put on these children to agree to a realist answer ( they were not allowed out of the room until they had an answer ! ) and if their usual tendency to interpret questions phenomenally is a trivial and weak effect then this social pressure should obliterate it . |
| 28 | He had an uncharacteristic fall from grace in his match against Connell . |
| 29 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 30 | The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’ |