Example sentences of "had [prep] [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had in addition to this party , — a doctor coming to visit his mother , who lived in Coll ; a young Englishman with a fishing-rod , who had left a medical practice for a few days , to whip the burns of Coll and breathe the fine air ; a minister 's wife ; a retired minister and his wife , both in delicate health ; the fiscal of Tobermory , who had a farm in Tiree ; the Chief Constable and Sheriff Clerk from Mull , who came to investigate a case of suspected cattle poisoning ; and a young Glasgow teacher , who came to be guest of the Fiscal aforementioned . |
| 2 | The late James Currie had in common with all comedians a voracious appetite for new material . |
| 3 | One failing he had in common with most labourers on the soil , much inaccuracy in bird nomenclature . |
| 4 | What these mathematicians had in common with most of those who worked in laboratories was that the majority were attached to universities . |
| 5 | This recommendation was clearly not what he had in mind at all . |
| 6 | She paused just long enough for me to realize that that was not what she had in mind at all . |
| 7 | What they had by way of this was largely impressionistic , qualitative and suggestive rather than confirmatory . |