Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came from an eminent legal family and the wedding took place at Croxton , Cambridgeshire , where her family had a home , on 2 May 1758 . |
| 2 | To satisfy political aspirations some LDCs ' governments nationalised ( took into state ownership ) foreign banking operations , whilst others insisted on local incorporation into a subsidiary company in which the government or its nationals had a shareholding . |
| 3 | Our Chairman was a master printer , older than I was but an extremely good-looking man , so that my excitement had a sexual side as well as a political one . |
| 4 | The first winter that my sister had no work |
| 5 | I remember being glad that my father had a job which did not need him to climb ladders . |
| 6 | At any rate she cut him short : ‘ Are you saying that my father had a shameful secret of some sort ? ’ |
| 7 | When you find out why Francis was killed you 'll also find that my father had a hand in it . ’ |
| 8 | Except my agent had a will of sponge , so instead of telling the charity committee to go take a bath in some sulphuric acid , I 'd find myself trekking off to Bodmin to give my all for the local branch of the Cats ' Protection League . |
| 9 | The only concession allowed by the party leadership was the acceptance of an amendment calling for the development of emergency procedures for greater consultation between the MPs and the national executive committee after complaints that its members had no knowledge of the deal with the Government until the Commons vote had taken place . |
| 10 | His long-suffering wife Elsie knew that her man had a mistress tucked away somewhere . |
| 11 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 12 | One minute they were having a philosophical discussion , and the next a very physical encounter , in which Shelley felt that her companion had the greater advantage . |
| 13 | Now the remarkable circumstance , recorded by Anna Dostoevsky in her memoirs , is that her husband had a foreboding of political disturbances at the Academy , and fearing that his brother-in-law ‘ because of his youthfulness and weakness of character might take an active part in them ’ , he persuaded Anna 's mother it would be a good thing if the young man came to them in Dresden : which he did in October of 1869 , the month before Ivanov was murdered . |
| 14 | The fact that her husband had a mistress did n't diminish the affection he had for his wife . |
| 15 | She tried unsuccessfully to hide what she described as ‘ preposterous fear ’ , and I understood that her fear had no focus and no logic , but was becoming a state of mind . |
| 16 | Frightened for the Englishman , because she well knew that her brother had an uncontrollable temper , she did not tell him anything . |
| 17 | Only half understanding the significance of it , Constance realised as she stood watching the rain that her mother had a secret , separate life in a grown-up world from which she was excluded . |
| 18 | Everything seemed to be changing , and this excited and worried her at the same time : she thought about it so much that her face had a permanently screwed up , wondering look . |
| 19 | Besides which , Milada Pankracova , his secretary , expressly stated in her letter giving me the appointment that her employer had no time or inclination to repeat himself , and that this was the last communication they wanted on the subject . |
| 20 | A smaller majority of Labour partisans asserted that their papers had a pro-Labour bias ( 22 per cent rising to 32 per cent ) . |
| 21 | The Defence Ministry on Oct. 3 , 1989 , issued instructions requiring all those exporting military " intelligence " from Israel , including instruction and training , to provide proof that their operations had the approval of the government . |
| 22 | There was even a buccaneering Robin Hood element , in that their programmes had a genuine popular appeal . |
| 23 | This week shareholders in Tesco , the supermarket chain , learnt that their chairman had a juicy special offer last year : a rise of 328% in his income , to £1.48m ( $2.6m ) . |
| 24 | Many of the young couples that come here to see about their weddings , when asked , admit that their relationship had a pretty unspectacular beginning . |
| 25 | Others suggested that their schools had an improved and more balanced curriculum , as a result of much more careful planning and prioritising , something which they felt could not have been achieved without devolution . |
| 26 | In all , 159 ( 73% ) participants reported that their practices had an asthma clinic ; 167 ( 77% ) practices had a practice nurse with special knowledge of asthma , 204 ( 94% ) owned a nebuliser , 135 ( 62% ) operated a practice asthma protocol , and 179 ( 82% ) had a register of asthma patients . |
| 27 | Strong positive correlations were indeed found between measures of the integration of images into dream plots with the integration of the unrelated slides into dream stories made up while awake , showing that their subjects had a consistent characteristic style of integration while awake and asleep . |
| 28 | Not only that , but once it was established that their corporal had an interest in me , every movement I made , almost every breath I drew , was reported back to him , including a very innocent ride I had one evening round the perimeter track in a jeep driven by one of the Flying Control Officers . |
| 29 | Some too were worried , like other single mothers , that their baby had no immediate father figure around . |
| 30 | A family has called for a school nurse to be sacked after she failed to spot that their son had a broken arm . |