Example sentences of "had [det] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At breakfast she found no difficulty in putting on a bright face , directing most of her attention to Matt , who , for some unknown reason , appeared to be in a gloomy mood , and who had little to say in response to her cheerful remarks . |
| 2 | In this way , if caught , the smugglers had little to lose in way of investment , it also made the job of our investigators more difficult , especially when often a foreign national would charter a UK vessel . |
| 3 | Tizard , for example , mentions the need to support the natural parents to enable them to care adequately ; Kellmer Pringle has advocated payment for mothers who stay at home to care ; and a further interviewee who may be identified with the ‘ society-as-parent ’ view had this to say in answer to the argument that the 1975 Act put already powerless parents in an even more powerless position : |
| 4 | She had already taken one A level in law and had another to take in history as well . |
| 5 | Sorry , and had another to take in history as well as an O level in mathematics at the time of the accident . |