Example sentences of "had [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an ex-financial journalist , Lawson had opinions about the limitations of trial by jury formed by what he had seen of financial scandals when working as a City Editor . |
| 2 | And I joined the the engineer 's union , one Saturday night in Newark , had to go back there and they had meetings in the townhall , a room that was hired and er was er particulars taken and I 've been in ever since . |
| 3 | Worst of all , some sadist of a landscape designer had slapped down Dancer 's stick-and-ball field right next to her house , so she not only had fairies at the bottom of her garden , but also a microcosm of Rutshire Polo Club . |
| 4 | China , on the other hand , had reunification at the back of its mind . |
| 5 | The sauropods instead had teeth in the front with only a few at the sides . |
| 6 | ‘ You knew that two people had contracts with the owner ? — |
| 7 | They always had bidding for the funeral and sometimes the family would write out the the bids . |
| 8 | Howard was not only thanked by Parliament for his humanity and zeal ; he even had copies of the Act printed at his own expense and distributed to all gaol keepers . |
| 9 | He himself gives the reason : that he had faith in the specialists , that is the director and curators , and allowed their objectives to be his objectives . |
| 10 | Yet that woman , for all her tribulations , had faith in the intercessions of our Lady . " |
| 11 | That sort of expenditure , instead of encouraging the rest of the cast to believe that the management had faith in the production , only served to dispirit them , thinks West . |
| 12 | The truth is that some members of the Liverpool board had misgivings about the way Swansea were run and wondered if Toshack might have picked up bad habits . |
| 13 | Sources close to the Prime Minister , Yitzhak Shamir , said while he welcomed greater US involvement , he had misgivings about the wording of Mr Baker 's proposals , presented orally , because they did not ensure a clear-cut Israeli veto power . |
| 14 | There is enough recorded in Warnie 's diaries over the next twenty years of friction and domestic misery to make us see why Jack had misgivings about the advisability of their all attempting to live together . |
| 15 | Although one or two polytechnics had misgivings about the break with local government , the vast majority welcomed the greater independence of action implied by the separation . |
| 16 | However , US government papers , released under the Freedom of Information Act , show that President Eisenhower , his secretary of state , John Foster Dulles and , later , Presidents Kennedy and Johnson , all had misgivings about the Shah 's abilities . |
| 17 | first , they had enemies in the Dzhungars , the Khalkha Mongols and the Yenisei Kirgiz . |
| 18 | Her new husband , William Chinnock , had affiliations with the Zion Chapel on the corner of Catherine Hill and Whittox Lane , and had been baptised there as an infant in 1789 . |
| 19 | The initiative also had support from the United States and the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | We had rehearsals in the morning , and by lunch-time people were already coming across the river to get their places for the play . |
| 21 | Anne thought Helen was right and Maureen said that she had been told when in hospital that patients often had remission in the disease their mother suffered . |
| 22 | In the past , counsel sometimes had discussions with the judge in chambers when an indication of likely sentence could be given in the event of certain pleas being offered . |
| 23 | He had discussions with the CDP about the issue , and the establishment of Research Degree Committees in the polytechnics was one of the first freedoms to be given to them ‘ under the Hornby plan ’ . |
| 24 | He also gave the impression , although I do not think he made a specific statement , that he had in fact had discussions with the Biafrans . |
| 25 | This this is going ahead and we had discussions with the staff side about about that issue . |
| 26 | During m recent visit I had discussions with the President , the Prime Minister , and five other senior Cabinet Ministers . |
| 27 | The Council considered papers and had discussions on the design of modular courses and issues affecting sandwich courses , responded to policy documents on sixth forms and engineering , surveyed its own past work and considered its future roles , discussed resource constraints and perceptions of its institutional visits and the work of the subject boards . |
| 28 | She stopped , and then went on : ‘ Anyway , he had Mum in the van with him and Weenie , but the rest of us were at home . |
| 29 | She had hyphens at the tip of a honied tongue . |
| 30 | He will remember that we also had difficulty over the Tombs report when again we could not get the necessary information . |