Example sentences of "had [verb] the [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun Tzu had placed the subject at the end of his thirteen-chapter work with good reason . |
| 2 | They had to breach the walls at close quarters and then scale them , using ladders and fighting-towers . |
| 3 | Frank sat down again and launched into a tale of how he had outwitted the guards at every turn and been the mainstay of the prisoners . |
| 4 | He was on the move again , whether he had annoyed the proprietor at his cheap hotel by his late night rowdiness , or quarrelled with one of the pimps because the girls staying there posed for him free or simply grown tired of the place , is not clear . |
| 5 | He thought of something he had read once about Fielding , who had heard the watermen at Rotherhithe mocking his body when it had grown ugly with the dropsy . |
| 6 | She had not been surprised to learn that the accountant Morris had been proved innocent of any crime and had pointed the finger at Spencer Grenfell . |
| 7 | On the 25th May 1686 ( two years after Roger 's report ) one John Blackwall wrote from Patterdale to inform Sir Daniel Fleming that he had studied the report , that he had examined the ground at Coniston , and that he was prepared , with a company , to open the mines " if terms can be agreed upon . " |
| 8 | She had joined the course at her parents ' insistence and while it was n't her idea of fun at the time it seemed a better alternative than being behind a typewriter . |
| 9 | In his student days , he had been careful never to become involved in any radical movements , had joined the Komosol at the age of sixteen and become a card-carrying Party member before his 21st birthday . |
| 10 | The tribunal rules that Barclays discriminated against her by making her retire at 60 , when a man who had joined the bank at the same time could work until 65 . |
| 11 | Wittikind , who had not sworn fealty to Charles , had returned from his exile in Denmark to arouse his countrymen and a huge Saxon host had attacked the fort at Karlstadt , taking revenge for the destruction of the sacred Irminsul and Charles ' other ravages of Saxony . |
| 12 | He had expected the sack at the time , but strangely enough he had had more than his share of work from that day on . |
| 13 | The two youths , both in their early twenties , one black , one white , had boarded the train at Gloucester Road station . |
| 14 | And he had dined the man at his favourite restaurant . |
| 15 | The 1861 census enumerator had caught the family at the height of its expansion ; 10 years later they were down to two children , one of whom would be leaving home very shortly . |
| 16 | They had caught the train at last , and beyond that not one of them was able to think . |
| 17 | And if he had rung the bell at Connon 's what reason would he have had to kill Mary ? |
| 18 | On June 19 the Polish government revealed that Soviet officials had reported the discovery at Mednoye of what appeared to be the remains of Polish officers interned at the Ostashkov NKVD camp . |
| 19 | Leaving at about 10.30 , he had approached the turnpike at Folly Lane Junction near Duncan Woods , from the east . |
| 20 | O'Brien had approached the Prince at the end of 1984 because he wanted support for a particular project , called Fullemploy . |
| 21 | Patterson was very unlucky when he ran out of road coming into the start and finish area and had to restart the race at the end of lap two . |
| 22 | Edward , installed by then with his brother in the Garden Tower , was informed of the turn of events by Brackenbury , the protector not having visited his nephews since the day he had accepted the crown at the Guildhall . |
| 23 | Had to wave the gun at her . |
| 24 | He had met the press at a cocktail party and had stood there answering impertinent questions with disconcerting honesty , a glass of ginger ale in one hand and a canapé in the other ; when he could not immediately think of an answer he nibbled the canapé and viewed the questioner with cold button eyes . |
| 25 | However , John Elliott ( 1981 ) has systematically researched attitudes at an 11–18 mixed comprehensive school set in a high-technology area and found strong support , among the parents who had selected the school at that time , for a balanced education which regards personal and social development as at least as important as academic development . |
| 26 | Interestingly , however , the SD went on to note that after unusually large audiences , prompted by heavy propaganda , had attended the film at the outset , the numbers rapidly dropped off , and there were comments that the film would bring nothing new , that people had had enough of the Jewish theme , and that many were nauseated by the depiction of ritual slaughter scenes — some fainting , and others leaving the cinema in disgust . |
| 27 | Some of the Old Stopfordians present , including Lord Royle ( since 1964 the first Stopfordian Life Peer ) , had attended the School at Greek Street . |
| 28 | However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise . |
| 29 | Between 1692 and 1747 the British had defeated the French at sea a number of times , but these battles could not eliminate the possibility that the French fleet would come out of port at a time of its own choosing and assist attacks on British colonies or an invasion of the British Isles . |
| 30 | Lucian Freud 's compelling ‘ Night Interior ’ ( lot 44 , est. $500–600,000 ) , which was owned by Saatchi , attracted a couple of hesitant bids from Anthony d'Offay , who had exhibited the picture at his gallery in 1972 , but was bought in at $260,000 . |