Example sentences of "had [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a year of experiment she and Mike had agreed that where both of them had meetings on the same night , Mike would try and arrange his at home : he could listen and take part in a discussion with a two-year-old on his lap . |
| 2 | He was busy negotiating alliances with the Spanish kingdoms , receiving oaths of homage from all his Gascon vassals , conducting a great inquiry into feudal tenures in Gascony ( the so-called Recognicionesfeodorum of 1273–5 ) , which had parallels with the Hundred Rolls and Quo Warranto proceedings in England , and summoning assemblies of the three estates of the duchy , and of the ‘ court of Gascony ’ to adjudicate ( among other things ) the case of Gaston de Béarn . |
| 3 | Theropods usually had teeth in the front jaws , and sometimes they extended far back into the mouth . |
| 4 | Henry had copies of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle identifiable with our C and E , and went to some trouble to re-order his material so that his account of early English history was clearer than that of his sources ; Florence helped his readers by prefacing his work with lists of bishops of English sees and genealogies of English royal dynasties . |
| 5 | Some items were common : several people had copies of the 1946 agreement between shaikhs , and its grandiose pretensions to a territory nearly the size of France . |
| 6 | Guzmán also had enemies on the extreme right , and there was some speculation as to their involvement . |
| 7 | He was acquitted , apparently because he had support within the royal household , and because the bishops united to reject the evidence of an inferior against one of themselves . |
| 8 | I 'd m , be much more worried if we had Germany outside the European Community . |
| 9 | This version had provision for the hot gases of combustion to be passed round and over a layer of slurry spread upon a drying floor . |
| 10 | The question of whether those taking part actually had sufficient command of BSL to make a conscious decision to withhold that form of signing is rather debatable , since virtually all those involved had difficulty with the deaf people 's signing which they had to translate . |
| 11 | Martin Brundle , in the second Camel Benetton Ford , had gearbox problems during the morning and had difficulty with the bumpy track in the afternoon session . |
| 12 | A person who had difficulty with the English language would get legal aid . |
| 13 | Some 11,000 investors had money in the offshore fund . |
| 14 | He had made his own translations of one of the Psalms and Prayers of Cardinal John Fisher [ q.v. ] ( although his theological books show a Puritan tendency ) and of ‘ The Life and Death of Edward II ’ , and he had part of the original manuscript of the Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | On the outbreak of hostilities , a small ministerial committee was established to co-ordinate the UK 's role in the operation , comprising Major , Hurd , Tom King ( the Defence Secretary ) and John Wakeham ( the Energy Secretary , who also had responsibility for the general co-ordination of government information ) , together with , as appropriate , other members of the Cabinet and the Attorney General ( Sir Patrick Mayhew ) . |
| 16 | The official was a member of the staff of the Procurator General who had responsibility for the smooth running of the Correctional Labour Colonies scattered across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . |
| 17 | The US , he points out , at one time had 100% of the financial futures business ; now it has 40% or 50% . |
| 18 | Eighteen had adenocarcinoma of the large bowel , anywhere from the caecum to the rectum . |
| 19 | Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back . |
| 20 | It 's no secret that we had disagreements with the British and the French on how we should best approach the issue of Bosnia . |
| 21 | Group Captain Dave Parsons had experience of the new plane before it crossed the Atlantic . |
| 22 | Next day Mr Wolski found that several of the morning newspapers had pictures of the golden eagle on their front page . |
| 23 | It so happened that the crossing sweeper had blood of the same group as this rich Brahmin lady . |
| 24 | Had umpires over the past 16 years — starting with that Saturday evening of shame when Edrich and Close were blitzed — shown the same resolution in observing the anti-intimidation law , cricket would now bear a healthier countenance , and the strictures contained in the 1991 ICC Code of Conduct would never have been necessary . |
| 25 | Although a greater proportion of patients with mixed infections had weight below the third percentile ( eight of 21 ) this was not significantly different to those with Cryptosporidium alone ( 11/61 ) . |
| 26 | He 'd worked and taught at the Magic Theater in San Francisco ; had therapy at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur with Fritz Perls ; worked in New York with Chaikin and La Mama . |
| 27 | Although a small Privy Council is different from an informal inner ring , the new body does not seem entirely original , for it had precedents in the fifteenth century and in the early years of Henry VIII . |
| 28 | We had words of the sixties , there were words of the seventies , there were words of the eighties , words of the nineties , and we 're influencing by those words , actually that 's reasonably in popularity and er increasing usage , and sometime we , people actually use it and they do n't know what it means . |
| 29 | If my lips had words for the wondrous feeling of your breasts and nipples I 'd say them . |
| 30 | The telegram had come from FIFA 's headquarters in Buenos Aires and informed the Scotland manger that one of his players , William Johnson , had traces of the proscribed drug Fencamsamin in his urine . |