Example sentences of "had [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 2 | The subsequent dismemberment of Inca society showed the faint enthusiasm the Spaniards had for this opportunity , yet it was such an idea which had given the term ‘ mestizo ’ a dignity beyond its racist translations of ‘ half-breed ’ or ‘ half-caste ’ . |
| 3 | How little reason they had for this view we shall soon discover . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the best map I had for this region was twenty-two miles to an inch . |
| 5 | British shipbuilding was never to recover the world pre-eminence it had during this period , although the yards were to do well until the late 1960s . |
| 6 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
| 7 | Since then , AT&T has been urging the FCC not to grant BT a licence unless the gesture is reciprocated ; its British rival had until this week been taking a similar line . |
| 8 | It is impossible to explain satisfactorily the passion that Shah Jehan had in this direction . |
| 9 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 10 | ‘ The first group of children we had in this morning had to be dragged out , ’ she said . |
| 11 | The study begins by noting the high expectations that the pupils , their parents and their teachers had in this regard . |
| 12 | Even the Director 's attempted intervention on his behalf , citing his past record of success , had on this occasion been over-ruled . |
| 13 | While not the most encouraging offer which a Prime Minister can receive , support from outside is a time-honoured formula and one which has frequently been used with much less excuse than Asquith had on this occasion . |
| 14 | Waking Glastonbury had on this occasion required him to bellow his nanny impersonation four times , causing old Mauleverer to come staggering out of his nearby bedroom asking if the club was on fire . |
| 15 | In her girls ' school , it was a bit like joining a club — " girls who had on this side , and girls who had n't on that side " . |
| 16 | The final bit of luck we had on this job was while we were refinishing this table . |
| 17 | Though his career had to this point suffered no check , according to Ata'i , he now fell into disfavour with the Grand Vezir Sokullu Mehmed Pasa ( Grand Vezir 972 87/1565–79 ) , who succeeded in accomplishing his removal , with a pension , in Safar 987/April 1579 . |
| 18 | The monastic reform movement , so important in the south , had at this date penetrated no further north than Burton in Staffordshire and Crowland in south Lincolnshire . |
| 19 | The Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement ( PMDB ) , the largest single party in the congress , had at this stage refused to join the government ; it had opposed Franco 's first choice as Finance Minister but failed to have its own candidate nominated . |
| 20 | One might be forgiven the thought that Wagner 's theoretical position had at this point compounded too many incongruities to make criticism necessary . |
| 21 | Even a figure more comparable with Lewis , G. K. Chesterton , had at this age published five of his most distinguished books , and discovered his own voice . |
| 22 | Doug Jones had at this time , been split from his mates of the Wolverton Company and was on a working party with a group of Queen Victoria Rifles men , detailed to drain some marshes in Poland . |
| 23 | Rome had at this time little interest in the lands beyond , which lay mainly in the highland zone and were inhabited by the earlier and less civilized peoples . |
| 24 | Unlikely though it seemed to students and friends of the scholarly and bespectacled professor , he had at this period worked for what became SOE ( a kind of work for which his precision of mind , excellent memory and linguistic ability pre-eminently qualified him : he contrived among other exploits to smuggle the leader of the Bulgarian Peasant Party out of the country into Turkey in a truck ) . |
| 25 | This lot have been brought into the barn for a rest , ’ indicating with his hand the others who had by this time fallen asleep , oblivious to the noise of the guns and the explosions very close to the barn . |
| 26 | Goebbels 's propaganda had by this time in any case lost practically all credibility . |
| 27 | That maintenance was continued so long is probably due to the fact that Gordon Thomas , its instigator , had by this time become General Manager of the Grand Junction Company , and it is understandable that he would have been reluctant to preside over the disintegration of the lift , his most original and spectacular achievement . |
| 28 | But the nuclear industry had by this time received yet a further green light . |
| 29 | The wheezing noise of the bellows had by this time excited the interest of some sentries on a large freighter moored nearby , but Maclean shouted out that they should mind their own business . |
| 30 | The science of astronomy had by this time totally undermined the old Ptolemaic system . |