Example sentences of "had [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw how the dark room had filled with transparent figures who marched along the walls singing and mocking , who wrapped themselves around her so that she was suffocated in their embrace , then turned to broken bricks and choking mortar dust which cascaded in torrents on to her , flattening her to the bed so that her limbs ached with pain and she could n't move . |
| 2 | As a senior member of the banking committee in the late 1980s , he had intervened with federal regulators on behalf of Charles H. Keating , while soliciting about $1,000,000 in political contributions from Keating 's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association [ see pp. 37848 ; 37998 ; 38223 ] . |
| 3 | Over the same period seven other cases of colonic cancer were found in association with ulcerative colitis , two in patients who had erroneously been diagnosed as having only proctitis and were therefore not entered into the programme , but were found at operation to have total colitis , one in a patient with colitis of seven years duration , and four patients who had previously attended the clinic but had been lost to follow up before 1978 and then had re-presented with new symptoms during the surveillance period . |
| 4 | This decision was plainly absurd : all confidentiality in the information had evaporated with overseas publication , and no additional damage to the national interest could possibly have been done by re-publication of the contents of the book in the British press . |
| 5 | Ardrossan harbour , still small and geared more to handling cargo , had to cope with large-scale passenger traffic . |
| 6 | Soon , one field was not enough , and the request ‘ all in a good cause ’ — spread to Jane 's two other fields , so the horses , most of which did not belong to her , had to be moved to a farm , and she had to cope with angry owners . |
| 7 | Stuck behind Patrese , Berger had to cope with high water temperatures and a loss of power until a fuel pump failure caused retirement on lap 37 . |
| 8 | Eighty rafts took part in the Speke to New Brighton event and crews had to cope with high tides . |
| 9 | had conspired with certain other young persons to produce a magazine that would corrupt the morals of young children and other young persons and had intended to arouse and implant in the minds of these young people lustful and perverted desires . |
| 10 | He had registered with warm approval the tears of Antiochus III , when the rebel Achaeus was brought to him " bound hand and foot " ( 8.20.9 ) . |
| 11 | Bill , who had heard with great pleasure many of the greats including Menuhin , Beecham , Barbirolli during his Newcastle days , went . |
| 12 | She had examined with analytical precision her empty and disgusting marriage with an impotent old man , and her candid delight at the death that had put an end to it . |
| 13 | The third in the trilogy was Akhnaten ( 19830 in which the singers had to contend with ancient Egyptian , Babylonian Akkadian , biblical Hebrew and the language of the country in which the performance was taking place . |
| 14 | There were , therefore , problems that Developments sought to solve , and in doing so had to contend with entrenched positions . |
| 15 | In the execution of their duties the foresters often had to contend with armed bands of desperate men ; in many cases they were beaten and even killed while attempting to arrest Forest offenders . |
| 16 | IF THE TRAUMA and problems involving the Great Warbirds Air Display ( GWAD ) from its established site at West Malling in Kent to Wroughton in Wiltshire were not enough , Elly Sallingboe , her airshow team and all the pilots involved in the show had to contend with low cloud , torrential rain and wind that gusted up to 65 knots on the first day of the show . |
| 17 | Lewis also had to contend with tabloid reports about an off-screen romance between her boyfriend and Geena Davis during the shooting of Thelma & Louise . |
| 18 | Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites . |
| 19 | How would hill-walkers cope these days , I wonder , if they had to contend with predatory wildlife as a natural part of mountaineering ? |
| 20 | Toni , recently voted the Most Fanciable Object of Desire , had to contend with numerous assaults on to the stage . |
| 21 | Where was all that charm he had lathered with sickening profuseness on Simone ? |
| 22 | The fastest Farnham Road Club pairing of A. Lloyd-Langston and B. Robinson recorded a time of 54 mins. 18 seconds , although the result may have been different , with M. Barrett finishing solo in a time of 54–47 after his partner , D. Wright , had to retire with mechanical trouble . |
| 23 | Warner had added with casual precision which would have made the Gestapo rage in frustration if they had intercepted it : ‘ The bomb landed at deep mid-on , bowling from the Nursery end . ’ |
| 24 | Another imaginative gesture was the gift of 6 pairs of sturdy , warm mittens , for those who had to work with rusty iron trestles or out in the cold . |
| 25 | Mr Mackie , who now lives in Inverurie , said he had dabbled with soft drugs as a teenager in London and had been introduced to them again by Murray and his brother , David Murray , when he went to work at Kenway . |
| 26 | Above all , leaving the house up on its pier blocks which , a year before , Bob Shephard had supplemented with bell-shaped concrete piers filled with revar and crowned with metal ties holding the house down . |
| 27 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |
| 28 | There were days when my husband and my son , too , had sat with Zayed . |
| 29 | She had counter-attacked with bright lampshades and curtains , but she had n't won . |
| 30 | Before she left , the Princess Royal became the first signatory to the new Napier University Visitors Book and on her departure , one of Napier 's youngest ‘ students ’ , four-year-old Kirsty Hutton who had come with other children from Napier 's crèche to wave goodbye to the Princess , presented her with a posy . |