Example sentences of "had [noun] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some had sons working at home , but on others the sons had taken on contract work to bring in additional ( much needed ) income . |
| 2 | Since he had teaching to prepare at Oxford for the following term , he said an unwilling farewell to his father and took the boat home . |
| 3 | ‘ We had difficulty coping at first , but we adapted after half-time . |
| 4 | Pictures were started , had money thrown at them , and then put to one side . |
| 5 | As is the way of coast guard stations , it once had waves lapping at its doorstep . |
| 6 | I lived in one of the rougher parts of Manchester , and was chased by gangs , had bottles thrown at me and once inadvertently put a gang to rout . |
| 7 | I discovered spit on my lapel and had abuse hurled at me by followers and supporters of the hunt and was cursed by the hunters . |
| 8 | Life was not all work and no play for women any more than for men ; even if they had chores to do at home , the women compositors — who almost by definition young and/or unmarried — had the chance to escape duty for pleasure from time to time . |
| 9 | They moved it out for something reason so I had occasion to look at it more closely . |
| 10 | A relative in the same village had goods valued at no more than 6s. 8d. , though enjoying an income of £3. 6s. 8d. from land , which , in this poor region , may , rather than £5 , have been the minimum for gentlemen , many of whom are only identifiable by their landed incomes . |
| 11 | Land worth £2. 1s. 4d. per annum was owned by Bernard Turney , who lived at Hudnall in Edlesborough and had goods valued at 40 marks . |
| 12 | Their direction was poor and in the first 12 overs they conceded 12 wides and no-balls , so it was an unexpected bonus when Donald , with the last delivery in his first spell of four overs , had Haynes caught at backward square-leg . |
| 13 | He had told them he had things to do at home , had saved up the day for solitude . |
| 14 | All had hand-guns holstered at their sides ; two of them had machine-guns . |
| 15 | There was just a risk , however minimal , that the Iranian Embassy had people watching at the main passenger termini . |
| 16 | The latter , in addition to recording the histories of Anglo-Saxon kings and churchmen , chronicled that of Glastonbury Abbey at the request of its monks , and several other monasteries , including Abingdon , Ely , Evesham , Peterborough and Ramsey , also had histories written at about this time . |
| 17 | We have , for many years , had legislation aimed at protecting the consumer from harmful food , but recently the law about food safety has been modified and extended to give even greater protection . |
| 18 | A team of master map-makers had reason to call at the Land Registery centre in Birkenhead but they could n't find it . |
| 19 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 20 | THE Chancellor 's focus was firmly fixed on the benefits to the economy of smaller business yesterday , but larger companies also had reason to give at least two cheers for the Budget . |
| 21 | In some sense Angela may have been paying for the assets — they had assets valued at £600,000 then , most of it in the lease on the building . |
| 22 | Eleven patients had specimens taken at 20 cm , nine patients at 30 cm , and 10 at 40 cm . |
| 23 | Swinging the ball away at a lively pace , he had Hough caught at slip by Paul Parker , then Ebrahim EssopAdam slashed his first ball straight to John Glendenen at gully . |
| 24 | One patient had stones cleared at a third stage , two patients had the remaining fragments removed at cholecystoscopy , and one patient by percutaneous cholecystolithotomy . |
| 25 | Both patients who had stones retained at the end of the procedure had satisfactory clearance at cholecystoscopy . |
| 26 | Bearing in mind the need to keep the business rate down , has my hon. Friend had time to glance at a pamphlet entitled ’ The Citizens ' Charter ’ , written in 1921 by one Herbert Morrison , then secretary of the London Labour party , which states that the best way to improve local services is to increase competition ? |
| 27 | He walked off in front of her and Jenna had no choice at all ; she followed and only had time to glare at him reproachfully as he opened the door and stood aside for her , and then Marguerite was there . |
| 28 | With the scores level , Akram then had Mallender caught at slip via a rebound and bowled Tufnell next ball . |
| 29 | Somerset openers Andy Hayhurst and Mark Lathwell began promisingly against the pacemen but Carrick came on for the last over before lunch and had Lathwell caught at slip off a cunningly flighted ball which turned . |