Example sentences of "had [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | those there , cos those are the ones I had for the European elections |
| 2 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 3 | Matisse , as has been seen , had for the past years been turning to the work of Cézanne for inspiration , and by 1906 Derain was looking at his work also , so that it was only natural that Braque , who had discovered Fauvism through them , should once again follow their example , although he was already well acquainted with Cézanne 's work . |
| 4 | She was known to all in the French Quarter for her good looks , her own hard-luck story ( two marriages , two troubled kids , a problem with drink ) and the soft spot she had for the hard-luck stories of others , poets in particular . |
| 5 | Yes well , for the experimental aircraft programme British Aerospace specified what G E C had to do and er a a this time , if you like , Deutsch Aerospace has taken on the equivalent role that B A E had for the experimental aircraft programme and er Deutsch Aerospace are not without experience in flight controls they have . |
| 6 | Lévi-Strauss saw structuralism as playing the same role for the social sciences as nuclear physics had for the physical sciences . |
| 7 | They went to Joseph Hyde — probably because he was the one connection they had between the Irish organization and me , and then they nearly beat him to death just so Lee could make his report to you . |
| 8 | The easy , informed arguments they had about the Kesselring case proved him wrong : as they talked , the two of them might have been no more than friendly colleagues . |
| 9 | Any other ideas that anybody had about the little dog ? |
| 10 | When Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister , in 1937 , he had as the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , a very able minister of considerable repute , which fact probably accounted for the fact that he remained as Foreign Secretary despite the clear differences of opinion that became apparent between them . |
| 11 | Yorkshire for example may regain the vineyards it had during the warm spell of the fifteenth century . |
| 12 | Both parliament and the bishops were intent on ensuring they would never again suffer humiliation at the hands of the Puritans as they had during the Civil War and its aftermath . |
| 13 | Or was she behaving again like she had after the strange happenings on Monument Hill ? |
| 14 | United lit the fuse for a quality cup tie by giving everything they had against the big boys from the premier league . |
| 15 | In James ' view , it could not because it was not , and , as he had throughout the previous decade , he remained implacably opposed to the Soviet regime under Stalin . |
| 16 | Even if the units of government are not based upon the counties , people still hark back to the links that they had with the traditional counties . |
| 17 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 18 | Yet the case is different with the children in England , for when they emigrate , the vast majority will go to English-speaking countries , and they will have profited from the intimate contact they had with the English life and language . ’ |
| 19 | BSkyB will not renew the £13 million three-season deal they had with the Scottish authorities which expired at the end of last season . |
| 20 | Now many more MPs expressed alarm about the actual impact of the tax on their constituents and , consequently , on their chances of re-election as they discovered to their dismay that most households would be paying far more in poll tax that they had under the old rating system . |
| 21 | This demonstrated the advantages which the DCAC derived from its ability to attract fresh minds like McClean 's and the good will it had from the Catholic community in general . |
| 22 | We had from the above example : unc |
| 23 | They ate less and less , never venturing outside the villa , the physical aspect of their relationship consuming them both as Damian began to take her beyond her new-found sensuality , smashing barriers as he went , teaching her everything about her body and his until she thrilled to the power of knowing how to touch and kiss him to make him breathless with ecstasy , whispering incoherent , urgent words of encouragement to her until they both fell into their usual sleep of pleasurable exhaustion , completely united by the passion that raged just as highly between them now as it ever had from the very beginning . |
| 24 | to distrain by their lands and chattels all those who shared in that liberty , and have lands within the bounds of the disafforested districts , to contribute towards the payment of the 200 marks to the King , in proportion to the lands they had in the said district , and the advantage they gained from the disafforestment . |
| 25 | Uncle used to do a bit because he liked fiddling with machines , and the one we had in the early days was borrowed and not really suitable . |
| 26 | That 's a great philosophy and fortunately we 've got the luxury of having a little more time now than we had in the early days . |
| 27 | The landslide he had in the electoral college last November obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote . |
| 28 | Instead , he promoted a ‘ Disraelian sense of the obligation of local businessmen to exercise leadership in the big cities as their predecessors had in the Victorian heyday ’ ( Parkinson and Duffy , 1984 , p. 81 ) . |
| 29 | The overall picture , with session 1991–2 yet to be completed , is very encouraging for SCOTVEC , because it indicates that the faith we had in the new system 's advantages was well-founded . |
| 30 | The long red tresses which in Astraea had flowed deranged on her shoulders whilst her paper skirts were slit by Seymour 's scissors had in the hot sun of Provence slowly crimped , frizzled , and broken off lustreless . |