Example sentences of "had [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 2 | The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it . |
| 3 | It was now 9.00am , they only had about one hour 's fuel left , enough for 180 miles at the most . |
| 4 | a transcription you remember last year , we had about one week on phonetics , and John , some people came to the John talk , where we did n't really talk about phonetics script there . |
| 5 | Then a line of orange flame , like a livid thread on the screen , spat from the had of one pirate towards the tangle of Gharrgoyles . |
| 6 | Stalin , the architect of the revolutionary Soviet state , the instigator of unprecedented social reforms and freedoms , the defender of international peace and security , the supporter of Republican Spain , had struck a cynical deal with Hitler , had in one stroke abandoned the principles of collective security and defence of nation states , and had opted for the fascist diplomacy of " bilateral agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 7 | Though Ivan claimed success with women , despite or because of his natural handicaps , and Liz herself , though she had not slept with him , had on one occasion in the early years of her marriage to Charles found herself , to her own surprise , sitting on a table in a flat in Belsize Park Gardens with Ivan 's hand inside her bra . |
| 8 | He was in an iron bed which resembled that on which he slept in ffeatherstonehaugh 's , but it had on one side a sad leatherette-and-wooden armchair and on the other a small white cabinet . |
| 9 | I had to one night the fucking er babysitter was half gassed it 's honest , we opened the fucking , she 's |
| 10 | Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn . |
| 11 | Jeremy Taylor , who had at one time been chaplain to Archbishop Laud , was no Calvinist . |
| 12 | The trio — all of whom had at one time endured menial jobs in factories , Stock making gaskets , Aitken fizzy drinks and Waterman manufacturing telephone dials — were now at the helm of the 1980 ’ s most phenomenal Hit Factory . |
| 13 | I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar . |
| 14 | The manager of Goddards , ‘ Wiggy ’ Harris , had at one time been a teacher at the local ‘ School of Art ’ where his father Mr. Joseph Harris was Headmaster . |
| 15 | Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant . |
| 16 | It was apparent as the light grew that the rocks which lay scattered among the trees had at one time been arranged in order . |
| 17 | By taking my hand and giving signs , he had at one time wanted me to come to his house — an invitation no doubt to show his friendship . |
| 18 | I had at one time abandoned hope that the little book would ever be published , for the only copy , typed laboriously by myself , was stolen from a railway carriage on Delhi Station . |
| 19 | The ladies murmured reluctant agreement , since most of them had at one time or another tried to oust her from at least one of the appointments which they themselves coveted . |
| 20 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |
| 21 | There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper . |
| 22 | Semenov had at one time been the Deputy Foreign Minister . |
| 23 | Expectations had at one time run high , but a parallel case of offence by weakness emerged from the accounts of the home . |
| 24 | She was a nurse , and had at one time been a nun . |
| 25 | Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match . |
| 26 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 27 | I believe he had at one time worked with Cizek and he certainly knew of Tagore 's work and writing . |
| 28 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 29 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 30 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |