Example sentences of "had [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this time Shadwell had me concentrate on the animal noises I was to make between the dialogue , so that when , for instance , I was talking to Kaa the slithering snake , who saves Mowgli 's life , I had to hiss . |
| 2 | I had my feet on the ground as the echoes came back . |
| 3 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 4 | ‘ I had my baby on the kitchen floor ’ |
| 5 | There was other stuff in similar vein but by this time I had my hand on the Yale latch and was opening the door . |
| 6 | ‘ Help ! ’ she called once , until I had my hand over the lower part of her face . |
| 7 | And er really I 'd Well I mean , I had my pleasure in the shop . |
| 8 | This was a surprise , as I had my doubts about the Windows driver , which offers intensity control , a number of different quality modes and not much else . |
| 9 | ‘ I had my doubts about the woman who played Ophelia . |
| 10 | ‘ Although now I come to think about it , I had my doubts from the start . ’ |
| 11 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 12 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 13 | The player said : ‘ I had my hands on the ball all the time . |
| 14 | And , then I had my dinner in the night time . |
| 15 | ‘ I had my finger on the button . ’ |
| 16 | Er I thought I had my copy of the certainly the panel 's report of nineteen eighty available , it it seems to have disappeared somewhere . |
| 17 | But all these things somehow had their centre inside the wire . |
| 18 | The pterosaurs , flying reptiles , also had their origins in the Triassic and became widespread and varied during the Jurassic and Cretaceous . |
| 19 | These perceptions were encouraged by policies which assumed that problems of urban deprivation had their origins in the characteristics of local populations and that these could be resolved simply by better co-ordination of the social services and encouragement of citizen involvement and community self-help . |
| 20 | The exhibition comprised posters tracing the development of the alkali industry and the companies Corning Glass , Courtaulds Coatings , Rohm and Haas and Sterling Winthrop , together with memorabilia from the companies , which all had their origins in the north-east . |
| 21 | Hill was the third generation of a family of prominent educationalists and social reformers , who had their origins in the radical Unitarian culture of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Birmingham . |
| 22 | The affiliated Hanbury bank in London merged in 1864 with another London bank of Quaker origins , Barnett , Hoare & Co. ; the new Barnetts , Hoares , Hanburys & Lloyd merged in turn with the main Lloyd bank of Birmingham in 1884 , bringing under one corporate roof connections that had their origins in the marriages more than a century before of the children of Sampson Lloyd II . |
| 23 | Both it and the camera , the financial department , had their origins in the " sacred Lateran palace " ( sacrum palatium Lateranense ) , the palace of a monarch . |
| 24 | Even more common was the language of religious rivalry , with the Tories being styled the High Church or episcopalian party , and the Whigs Presbyterians or fanatics — rivalries which , as protagonists on both sides were quick to point out , had their origins in the religious upheavals of the 1640s and 1650s . |
| 25 | It meant 11 Townsmen had their back against the wall for an indirect free kick ; an incredible sight within the 6 yard box . |
| 26 | More effective drugs had their origin in the basic research on chemical transmission of nerve impulses described in chapter 4 . |
| 27 | These oaths , and the bond they established , had their origin in the relation of lord and follower in the courts of the barbarian chieftains and they had a powerful religious aura , though this did not always prevent them being broken . |
| 28 | The white quivering lights which she so frequently saw probably resembled the white ‘ eels and strings ’ that Ruskin complained of , and had their origin in the psychotic brain . |
| 29 | Galileo seems to have felt that his difficulties with the Catholic Church had their origin in the resentment of academic philosophers who had put pressure on ecclesiastical authorities to denounce him . |
| 30 | As a revolutionary writer Nizan was confronted by what he perceived as a series of particularly acute technical problems which had their origin in the specific historical situation of post-First World War France . |