Example sentences of "have at [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had at one time suspected his mother of doing precisely this . |
| 32 | His father , the son of a Yorkshire grazier , had at one time been a journeyman packer in London . |
| 33 | It was amongst this jumble of workings that the " Germans " had at one time their " Three Kings " — mines probably dedicated to the Magi … |
| 34 | On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ . |
| 35 | There had at one time , Agnes had told her , been a full complement of horses and hounds , for Sir John had been a keen sportsman . |
| 36 | It had at one time been a larger crude producer than Saudi Arabia , with an output in 1964 of 2.3 million b/d against the Saudi 1.9 million b/d , only being overtaken in 1966 . |
| 37 | There were two outbuildings across the yard ; one looked like a converted barn and the other had at one time styed pigs . |
| 38 | Mr Hewitt , dying of cancer in hospital , said to Mrs Sen — his close friend for thirty years , with whom he had at one time cohabited — " The house is yours , Margaret . |
| 39 | Busacher had at one time been surprised at Willi 's musical perception , but was no longer . |
| 40 | Salmon had at one point actually hinted that the great philosopher Henri Bergson might write a preface for the exhibition . |
| 41 | She was jumpy and had at one point been startled by her own shadow . |
| 42 | A Pharisee by training and once a vehement conservative , he had at one stage harassed the infant church but was dramatically converted by confrontation with a vision of the risen Lord . |
| 43 | Her skin had at one stage , unusual in a redhead , been almost chocolate-brown and silk-smooth , but she was a northern redhead , and had passed beyond the russet and the Negro , back to a strange peeled patchwork , toast-cinder brown , radish-crimson , freckled bone and the translucent grey of flaking skin still shifting . |
| 44 | Mosca , like Pareto , had at one stage of his writing career some sympathy for the socialist parties of the period , and like Pareto he is more remembered for his argument that socialists should be seen as dangerous purveyors of an illusory hope of democratic participation . |
| 45 | He had at one stage been described as the worst farmer in Britain and RSPCA investigators found emaciated animals when they went there . |
| 46 | INITIAL shock gave ground to more considered calm in the market after Mr Lamont 's forecast of a £50 billion public sector borrowing requirement had at one stage wiped 14 points off the FT-SE 100-Share Index . |
| 47 | Viewed from the perspective of the late-1980's , when archaic ideological attitudes and inflexible organisational structures have at one level unquestionably arrested the originally dynamic social development of the Soviet experiment , and at another level appear to have condemned the PCF to a peripheral status , if not imminent extinction , this seems strange . |
| 48 | All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ . |
| 49 | All three countries have at one time or another during the 1980s had recourse to the IMF for standby loans . |
| 50 | The result is that there are books on many library shelves which have at one time been declared obscene or indecent and may be so categorized again . |
| 51 | The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him . |
| 52 | Subsequently , most Scottish rural areas , mid- and North Wales , the Pennines and parts of Devon and Cornwall have at one time or another been designated as Assisted Areas ( see figure 3.3a ) . |
| 53 | De Smith has adumbrated four different tests which the courts have at one time or another used . |
| 54 | Er because me sis me sister , two of me sisters went in service , er there was me , at this time , me , me brother , two sisters , no , two brothers , five , six , well I , I have , we have at one time me mother and father slept downstairs in the front room . |
| 55 | We may regret we live in a permissive society but I doubt whether even the most staunch defender of a better age would maintain that all or even most of those who have at one time or in one way or another been led astray morally have thereby become depraved or corrupt " . |
| 56 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |