Example sentences of "had [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | admitting things like losing fifty billion quid on fluttering on foreign exchanges er Mr did or flittering away the north sea oil revenue in tax cuts for higher earners rather than er keeping that er once in a life time er bonus that this country had for the north sea oil and also you could mention the increased pension for but it did n't match billions that have been wasted on defence expenditure especially defence expenditure and especially the trident programme . |
| 2 | In this poem we see their shared Jewishness , and the ‘ irreverence ’ ( as some would see it ) they each had for the Tradition — at least for that view of it which some espoused ; we also see a shared disdain for rabbinic ( and priestly ) logic , to them both a form of mental death . |
| 3 | But they had for the winter time they their houses to go to . |
| 4 | Erm my understanding of the paper that we had for the seminar was that it discussed the nature of explanation . |
| 5 | Hoving proved his own worst enemy , and eventually his taste for the tinsel and show of the art world overtook whatever feeling he had for the art itself , and he left the museum after his cherished Arts Communication Center ( to be funded by Walter Annenberg , with Hoving as its head ) , a nebulous film-studio-cum-information centre to be built in gallery space reserved for the European decorative arts department , was dissolved after much local criticism . |
| 6 | If the unique guitar/drum intros of many of the recorded works here ( you know them all ) are proof of their creative gift , the live CD is an example of the contempt they had for the carnival going on around them . |
| 7 | Identifying trainees is all about finding out who needs to be trained and what they need to know and if you remember one of ject objectives we had for the course is , was to , so that by the end of the course you will actually develop a system by identifying the trainees because this is sort of hit or miss . |
| 8 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 9 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 10 | If you leave , if you leave let's say if you get caught and sent back then you 're gon na get back you know twice as much as you had for the reason for leaving . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe our vote would have been very substantially higher had it not been for the fear , the concern , that people had for the prospect of a Labour government , ’ Mr Ashdown said , adding that the election showed Labour could not fight the Conservatives , even in the depths of a recession . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe our vote would have been very substantially higher had it not been for the fear , the concern , that people had for the prospect of a Labour government , ’ Mr Ashdown said , adding that the election showed Labour could not fight the Conservatives , even in the depths of a recession . |
| 13 | The old abrasiveness over the community budget had for the moment disappeared . |
| 14 | For Henri , the desire for French control of Scotland had for the moment given way to Valois need to counter an extension of Hapsburg power ; and Mary was as useful for the one as for the other . |
| 15 | The latter had for the moment deserted him . |
| 16 | Divergent political objectives notwithstanding , the obvious goodwill between Ho and the Americans , the limited but successful training teams that they provided for Vietminh guerrillas , and the obvious sympathy which many Americans — in particular , it seems the OSS — had for the cause of Vietnamese independence , not to mention corresponding doubts of the French title to Vietnam , all of these understandably encouraged the Vietminh in their political objective of the accomplished fact . |
| 17 | Such ratios serve to show the very great importance an extension of the waterway network had for the movement of heavy and bulky materials . |
| 18 | Compassion for Antoinette Gebrec had for the time being taken her mind off her own disillusionment . |
| 19 | Beyond that , the White Paper Better Services for the Mentally III ( 1975 ) also set out rates of provision which health and local authorities ought to be aiming to achieve For ‘ oughtness ’ could be read council discretion about what priorities they had for the distribution of ‘ new moneys ’ . |
| 20 | In small group discussions , happily married men with children clearly saw fidelity as part of their lives ; although not immune to other women 's charms , they were not prepared to jeopardize what they had for the sake of a night of passion . |
| 21 | Dick Evans , chief executive , said BAe had to find ‘ an active partner ’ for its turbo-prop business , just as it had for the jet end , but it was ‘ too soon yet ’ . |
| 22 | The audience waved , swayed and sang along enthusiastically , as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him . |
| 23 | Strangely enough these stemmed not from any hostility towards Doctor Who the concept all three were thoroughly supportive of the format — only from reservations Wilson and Newman had about the way Verity Lambert and David Whitaker were interpreting their prodigy . |
| 24 | She was n't going to risk annoying them as she had about the color of the paint . |
| 25 | ‘ I used the only fact I had about the man who had dealt with the News of the World . |
| 26 | Armed with illustrations , specifications and his own ideas about his target market , plus knowledge of any built-in prejudices he had about the kind of media he preferred — TV , newspapers , posters , et cetera — plus of course the size of the budget he was prepared to allocate , she would be able to report with the least possible delay to Sebastian Grantham . |
| 27 | Just as a matter of interest I was gon na bring up onto the er planning minutes for the tenth of January but as I was n't allowed er The I had a phone call from the electricity board following the erm erm discussions that we had about the power supply on Road , they 'd received a follow up enquiry from the press , if you recall we expressed concern that we thought that secured following the harsh winter three years ago . |
| 28 | In this way he would , much as Darwin had during the voyage of the Beagle , remain in the public eye all the time he was away . |
| 29 | It was well worth waiting for , and was the best meal we had during the holiday . |
| 30 | A plan to reduce the quantity of drink Ben had during the day and to offer drinks only after meals was implemented . |