Example sentences of "had [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest . |
| 2 | I 'm virtually certain that the woman from whom we had most of the aggravation had been . |
| 3 | Pomerania , the Vistula delta and East Prussia had little in the way of natural resources or industrial centres ; worthwhile manufactured goods and raw materials for export were located some 250–500 kilometres inland in areas that lay south of Poznán , Warsaw and Lublin . |
| 4 | Except in the colourful person of the legendary John Winchcombe , the Berkshire woollen industry had little in the way of glamour . |
| 5 | Business came upon Tudor princes in a continuous stream of the important and the trivial , and they had little in the way of a bureaucratic substructure for deciding matters of executive detail . |
| 6 | Moreover , the fact that experience of objects is to be had only under the form of space and time ensures the applicability of mathematics to the whole or the phenomenal ( and hence physical ) world . |
| 7 | I had enough in the end . |
| 8 | But this was a wee sort of lump that I had down at the bottom of my vagina . |
| 9 | Talk about the dreams you had together for the future . |
| 10 | This problem overlapped with that of the Public Schools generally , and he had already in the summer secured Cabinet approval for setting up a Public Schools Commission . |
| 11 | McCreery had already by the afternoon of that day recognised that the question of what should be done about the Croats posed a particular problem . |
| 12 | Nine of these students had not at the time of writing completed their course of study . |
| 13 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 14 | Anti-immigrant feeling had not in the past been strong in Belgium , although in May young north African immigrants had rioted in Brussels , prompting the government to reinforce its policy of integrating immigrants [ ibid . ] . |
| 15 | The customer was the original owner and provided he had not in the interim lost his ownership , he transferred that ownership to X. However , the court upheld the finance company 's claim that the customer had by the doctrine of estoppel lost his ownership to the finance company . |
| 16 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 17 | To think of it another way , if you were asked to mend a broken chair you would not use every tool you had just for the sake of showing that you had them . |
| 18 | I obviously had just before the war but I do n't , do n't , did n't remember then until afterwards . |
| 19 | Is the Minister aware that in Scotland we have gained the impression that while the Secretary of State for Scotland is prepared to have meetings about the industry such as the one that he had yesterday with the shadow Secretary of State for Industry — the man with the real power in relation to the steel industry , the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , is not prepared to lift a finger to help secure a future for steel production in Scotland ? |
| 20 | ‘ I remember there was some tinned meat we had once in the Store , ’ said an elderly nome . |
| 21 | Her humble beginnings , the magical means by which she had come to share her half-sister 's privileged life and had later by the queen-dowager 's design taken her place , had been part of some pre-ordained plan . |
| 22 | The conference adopted a resolution which stated that " for the Slovene LC the 14th extraordinary congress of the LCY has ended , and the LCY , in the form which it had up to the congress , has ceased to exist " . |
| 23 | The the spell that er Forest had straight after the interval looks to have been weathered . |
| 24 | They had yon before the board at Cranwell , did n't they ? |
| 25 | He heaved himself up , out of his day-dreaming as he had out of the bath , and took out his stamps . |
| 26 | My daughter was born during the Truby King period , and it took a month of untold agony for myself and the child before I threw every book I had out of the house and all my well meaning and Truby King obsessed relatives with them . |
| 27 | It was only partly the men he had out on the streets and in the bazaars , the special agents like Georgiades . |
| 28 | It was identical to the one worn by the man in the photo she had back at the hotel . |
| 29 | Ah well I was , I was a y on er thing we had back in the building trade . |
| 30 | Said had earlier in the year been mentioned in a House of Commons select committee as an important contact in securing for British Aerospace the £20,000 million al-Yamamah arms purchase of 1985 , a deal which became a focus of controversy after allegations that large sums were paid to mediators . |