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Example sentences of "have at the [noun] [be] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	All I had at the end was a sore hand and broken fingernails .
2	The worst problem I had at the palace was the Queen 's dwarf .
3	The pig Agnes had at the moment was just about ready to have its throat slit so she would send Alisdair to the market for a new one .
4	I assume you can not , for already the feelings I had at the time are inscrutable to me , so imbued was I with an electric sense of occasion .
5	She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report .
6	All we have at the moment is that there must be some non-contingent link between mental state and behaviour if we are to understand talk about other minds .
7	The best candidate we have at the moment is the theory of superstrings , but there are still a number of unresolved difficulties .
8	Looking back at him , she said , ‘ The only ambition I have at the moment is to survive my eighteen months with G.W. Fashions .
9	It 's the worst thing that 's ever come from any political Party and all associated problems live on , and all we have at the moment is one statement after the other from the Ministers which blame the very people that it attacks .
10	‘ What we have at the moment is a situation where we discharge 17 million tons of wet sewage from vessels into the river each year .
11	And what the manifesto is , is trying to do is to er set an agenda for about how the lot of private homes can be improved , and er fixing rent is one thing which the government er traditionally has had a responsibility for and which needs , er must be linked in with conditions because what we have at the moment is a situation where you get , in Oxford , a er a family living in one room being charged er over two hundred pounds a week by an individual landlord , and that 's clearly unacceptable .