Example sentences of "had [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His right foot had to remain at right angles to his leg . |
| 2 | In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals . |
| 3 | They were also rooted in the past and in the nature of things — in the past , through the gifts of land , relics , and rights which they had received at various times ; in the nature of things through the physical separation of the British Isles from the rest of the world as an alter orbis . |
| 4 | How could she accuse the traditional education he had received at Welsh hands , when she herself was not entirely innocent ? |
| 5 | The Air Djibouti flight from Addis Ababa had stopped at Dire Dawa but had picked up no passengers . |
| 6 | He added that imports had to continue at competitive levels to safeguard jobs in the processing industry . |
| 7 | She declined to say if the supermarket group had looked at alternative sites in the town . |
| 8 | Mr Banks , a member of the North-East Regional Schools Security Group and vice-chairman of the Association of Local Authority Risk Managers ( Alarm ) , said the county had looked at various ways of improving security in schools . |
| 9 | Although the courts ' attitude to reports leading to legislation has varied , until recently there was no modern case in which the court had looked at parliamentary debates as an aid to construction . |
| 10 | Waiting just like the other four men Hitch had positioned at various places along the Thames . |
| 11 | WHEN HE saw his hands in the light he flinched , and held them away from him , to avoid letting them touch any other part of his person or habit , for the right was engrained with drying blood across the palm and between the fingers , and the fingers of the left were dabbled at the tips , as if they had felt at stained clothing . |
| 12 | For example , in what was a most influential study at the time , Robert Sears , Eleanor Maccoby and Harry Levin obtained reports from the mothers of 379 5 year olds on the rearing practices they had adopted at various phases of their children 's lives . |
| 13 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 14 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |
| 15 | Of the 25 hypertensive men , by 1989 five had died at mean age 47.8 ( range 40–54 ) years , four of cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease and one of colorectal cancer . |
| 16 | In Woodrow , it was held that affray is a continuing offence , so that where an indictment charged the defendants with a single offence and particularised several incidents that had occurred at different places and over a period of several hours , the indictment was not bad for duplicity . |
| 17 | A case in point was a series of devastating strikes that Finniston had to weather at British Steel in 1974 . |
| 18 | The great issue of the next week was whether Law could agree to attend the Carlton Club meeting which Chamberlain had summoned at short notice for the Thursday morning , 19 October . |
| 19 | Previously the Central Bank had carried out a series of devaluations of the new cruzado , which on its introduction in January 1989 had exchanged at near equity with the United States dollar . |
| 20 | But it had disappeared at high speed into the early morning darkness . |
| 21 | The man had been found near Southwark Bridge at the turn of the tide : he had grounded at low tide , and it had been assumed that he had been carried down river with the ebb . |
| 22 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 23 | To keep clear of British radar and stay undetected , the bombers had to fly at low level and so never attained the necessary height . |
| 24 | Only two years earlier the Twelve had battled at epic length over increasing the EC budget for the years to 1992 from 0.7 per cent of each member state 's gross national product to nearly 1.2 per cent , with the ceiling fixed at over £30 billion . |
| 25 | The point of contact between British and French colonies was still on the seacoast , and here the British regular forces and the colonial militia co-operated effectively and captured the fortress of Louisbourg , which the French had fortified at immense cost to command the entrance to the St. Lawrence and hold back the British in Nova Scotia . |
| 26 | What had happened at Great Casterton was that the discovery of a wall in a place where it could not possibly exist , according to my ideas of the site , had set in motion all my mental defences . |
| 27 | However , since the presence of the deceased on the premises was in direct contravention of an express instruction issued by the brewery to their manager , the brewery were not liable ; his permission to remain on the premises had ceased at closing time , 10.30 p.m . |
| 28 | By the time Alaric finally finished the twelfth Runefang Sigmar has long since passed eastward to whatever fate became him , and the original chieftains who had fought at Black Fire Pass were long dead . |
| 29 | Their last , idyllic day on earth had started at magnificent Lake Sabaya , six miles inland from the ocean . |
| 30 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |