Example sentences of "have at a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In such cases the district judge may , unless the application has at a party 's request been referred to the judge ( Ord 19 , r 2(5) ( b ) ) , on hearing the application ( usually at the pre-trial review ) refer the matter to a district judge for arbitration ( N 19 ) .
2 Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion .
3 How many can a man have at a time ?
4 Perhaps , in retrospect , rather a dull pair to have at a dinner party .
5 Biddy brought some tapes of circus-sounding music and Uncle Bean played them in his car , and Spot stood up on his hindlegs and Jazz fell off more heavily than ever he had at a jump .
6 Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in .
7 A report of June 16 noted that Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Moldova , Kazakhstan , Russia , Turkmenistan , and Uzbekistan had at a meeting in Minsk decided to introduce standardized customs tariffs and categorization of goods for foreign trade [ for customs agreement see p. 38874 ] .
8 He could neither move nor think , as if all power had at a stroke been cut off from both body and brain .
9 He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution .
10 and McNeill J. , had to consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus , where justices had refused bail on the ground that there was likely to be interference with witnesses and had at an application for a further remand in custody declined to hear the defendant 's counsel who wished to renew the application for bail on the basis that there had been a material change of circumstances .
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