Example sentences of "had [verb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We left them on the boat while we wandered into the town to discuss with Sunsail a fuel tank that a previous charterer had filled with water instead of diesel . |
| 2 | The dust blew round his feet and often he rubbed his eyes because they had filled with water . |
| 3 | She was shaking and her mouth had filled with saliva . |
| 4 | She had found herself , at one stage , lightly stroking the back of her hand across her breast , and had jumped with guilt . |
| 5 | Meg did not think for that — foul wash , the tinker boy ; his thing ; he had roared with laughter — as just or justifiable . |
| 6 | Jane had ‘ missed her first ’ and went down from university with only a two-one in English Language and Literature , thus deprived of the academic career she had coveted with cowardice . |
| 7 | Two slotted benches occupied most of the space and they were high up so that you had to sit with neck bent or smash your head against the ceiling . |
| 8 | Theda had gazed with awe upon the dish of ham and eggs , the lavishly buttered bread and the pot of tea , bereft of words . |
| 9 | He also claimed that staff aides to the then Vice-President Bush had intervened with HUD in 1985 in order to win a $500,000 grant for a Kansas City developer , Hector Barreto , a longtime supporter of Bush . |
| 10 | Still walking east , the party were aware that they were almost at the front line and had to proceed with caution . |
| 11 | And by now close relationships had developed with aid agencies in Canada , Australia , Aotearoa(NZ) and the US . |
| 12 | The second spoke of Iraq 's having attacked Tehran 's Mehrabad ( both civil and military ) airport : Iran had retaliated with air attacks on Baghdad and on a petrochemical complex near Basrah . |
| 13 | At first the techs had retaliated with bolt guns and heavy stub weapons . |
| 14 | Stanley also had to cope with epilepsy , a fairly common complication following a stroke . |
| 15 | On the facts before him Nourse LJ indicated that the deceased had parted with dominion three days before his death . |
| 16 | In the 80s , the banks , with poor management , had conspired with government to get us into this situation . |
| 17 | The human rights organization Amnesty International in its 1992 annual report released on July 9 claimed that governments around the world had connived with security forces in permitting extrajudicial murder , abduction and torture . |
| 18 | As work began in earnest on the book , I realised that Roderick had lost none of the skills that I , as his research student twenty years before , had regarded with awe . |
| 19 | It was a picture I had examined with attention through many an hour of boring burble , raucous revivalist song and whining , wheezing harmonium . |
| 20 | None of them seemed to include the tube in their itineraries , but there was some useful advice on how to secure the best berths on a Nile river cruiser and an interesting complaint about the lack of leg room on Concorde which assured him that the R and the F of this world had to contend with life 's little niggles just like everybody else . |
| 21 | Apart from the pouring rain , we had to contend with mist — luckily we were on a clear path . |
| 22 | But from flat calm conditions on the first day , the novice sailors had to contend with Force 7 gales as the course progressed . |
| 23 | James 's face had reddened with confusion but he managed to give him a nod which said ‘ Go on . ’ |
| 24 | When Harriet had telephoned with news of the birth , Liza 's mother-in-law had quickly passed her over to her husband . |
| 25 | The government had admitted that as the reforms ‘ deepened ’ there would be signs of inequalities and economic problems which the people had to accept with patience . |
| 26 | They decided that this was because tritium from the heavy water had fused with deuterium in the rods . |
| 27 | My appearance , which Helmut had embellished with jewellery , expensive clothes and regular visits to beauty salons , Jean-Claude liked unadorned and without make-up . |
| 28 | Far away , between the two copses , he could see the cherry tree where two days before he had sat with Blackberry and Fiver in the sunrise . |
| 29 | Rain 's memory guided her to the cafe where she had sat with Cobalt . |
| 30 | and they recognized too the enormous boost to his prestige that had come with victory . |