Example sentences of "had [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest . |
| 2 | I 'm virtually certain that the woman from whom we had most of the aggravation had been . |
| 3 | Pomerania , the Vistula delta and East Prussia had little in the way of natural resources or industrial centres ; worthwhile manufactured goods and raw materials for export were located some 250–500 kilometres inland in areas that lay south of Poznán , Warsaw and Lublin . |
| 4 | Except in the colourful person of the legendary John Winchcombe , the Berkshire woollen industry had little in the way of glamour . |
| 5 | Business came upon Tudor princes in a continuous stream of the important and the trivial , and they had little in the way of a bureaucratic substructure for deciding matters of executive detail . |
| 6 | In the Republic of Ireland , the withdrawn of the pound sterling from the ERM had perhaps of the greatest impact . |
| 7 | Moreover , the fact that experience of objects is to be had only under the form of space and time ensures the applicability of mathematics to the whole or the phenomenal ( and hence physical ) world . |
| 8 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 9 | Members held raffles and donated cash until they had enough for the Olympic bar . |
| 10 | I had enough in the end . |
| 11 | But this was a wee sort of lump that I had down at the bottom of my vagina . |
| 12 | What you had down on the previous one was er schools and businesse Schools , businesses and something else , I think , that she 'd collected |
| 13 | Talk about the dreams you had together for the future . |
| 14 | Suddenly she felt a glowing warmth deep inside ; he could never betray her , could never sell what they had together for the cheap thrill of recounting an old , sordid story . |
| 15 | This problem overlapped with that of the Public Schools generally , and he had already in the summer secured Cabinet approval for setting up a Public Schools Commission . |
| 16 | McCreery had already by the afternoon of that day recognised that the question of what should be done about the Croats posed a particular problem . |
| 17 | Innately more conservative than its urban counterpart , the rural community had not for the most part engaged in widespread and overt political protest in response to the strains that were placed upon it . |
| 18 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 19 | Nine of these students had not at the time of writing completed their course of study . |
| 20 | Culturally , too , there were signs that Europe was beginning to be receptive again , as she had not since the sixteenth century . |
| 21 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 22 | The customer was the original owner and provided he had not in the interim lost his ownership , he transferred that ownership to X. However , the court upheld the finance company 's claim that the customer had by the doctrine of estoppel lost his ownership to the finance company . |
| 23 | Anti-immigrant feeling had not in the past been strong in Belgium , although in May young north African immigrants had rioted in Brussels , prompting the government to reinforce its policy of integrating immigrants [ ibid . ] . |
| 24 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 25 | To think of it another way , if you were asked to mend a broken chair you would not use every tool you had just for the sake of showing that you had them . |
| 26 | I obviously had just before the war but I do n't , do n't , did n't remember then until afterwards . |
| 27 | No , just the same machine we had over on the other side , aye , it has n't changed at all . |
| 28 | Is the Minister aware that in Scotland we have gained the impression that while the Secretary of State for Scotland is prepared to have meetings about the industry such as the one that he had yesterday with the shadow Secretary of State for Industry — the man with the real power in relation to the steel industry , the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , is not prepared to lift a finger to help secure a future for steel production in Scotland ? |
| 29 | ‘ I remember there was some tinned meat we had once in the Store , ’ said an elderly nome . |
| 30 | Her humble beginnings , the magical means by which she had come to share her half-sister 's privileged life and had later by the queen-dowager 's design taken her place , had been part of some pre-ordained plan . |