Example sentences of "they had at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution .
2 They threw everything they had at the Swindon goal , but Hammond stopped the lot .
3 the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail .
4 He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop .
5 They both headed the list with the responsibilities they had at the time .
6 The memories they described in response to the stimulus were highly specific and no longer consciously recollected ; on experiencing the memory they also relived the feelings they had at the time .
7 That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP …
8 We must be cautious , though , in making the assumption that such words as ‘ king ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ Messiah ’ still convey to us the meaning which they had at the time and in the world of Jesus .
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