Example sentences of "had [det] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had that name for many centuries . |
| 2 | She somebody has fenced it off , she says I could see them far enough , she said , we always had that bit for our camp and it was further down the glen . |
| 3 | Kitty had that facility for slipping the knife in , even when on the surface she might only be talking about the weather . |
| 4 | Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it . |
| 5 | So I did — my mother had that drawing for many years — and then Mr Moore rang my mother and said that it was so nice having me in his class because I was so interested and keen , but there was n't really a lot of point , and would n't it be better if I played the piano ? |
| 6 | Although the farmer expected his wife to cope , in many cases she had little preparation for the job . |
| 7 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 8 | We had little scope for passion . ’ |
| 9 | The contrast between the mondaine world of Beatrice Hastings and the ghetto of Jewish painters from Eastern Europe could hardly have been greater , and Beatrice had little patience for Modigliani 's gauche , unsophisticated friends . |
| 10 | Never intolerant of individuals , he had little patience for pettiness of mind . |
| 11 | Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs . |
| 12 | Most ordinary Chinese had little love for the veteran military man . |
| 13 | She had little money for clothes , but that did not matter ; it did not even matter , much , to her , though sometimes she wished she had more than two dresses , one pink , one grey . |
| 14 | The majority were individuals doing their national service , who had little enthusiasm for that , let alone for a task of this type in this perishingly cold country . |
| 15 | But the government newspaper al-Jumhouriya had little enthusiasm for Clinton ‘ a chameleon that changes colour every day ’ . |
| 16 | He was always loyal and when we had a house maid who adored Basil and had little affection for his sisters and she used to stand up for him as hardly done by , he would have none of it , to my remembered satisfaction . |
| 17 | Mr Justice Hawkins , in his summing up , certainly had little sympathy for Woolridge . |
| 18 | Such a reality had little sympathy for the training of character and the creation of citizens . |
| 19 | In addition , many local people , regarding the environment as something to be exploited in order to make a living whether as a farmer or as a fisherman , had little sympathy for the idea of landscape protection or conservation . |
| 20 | The Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt had little sympathy for the Arabs he painted in the mid-19th century : ‘ Speaking generally I regard these people as the most detestable in existence . ’ |
| 21 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly , those who were already established had little sympathy for this proposed redirec-tion of resources . |
| 23 | Though Polly had little sympathy for Clive after what he had put her through , this merciless dismissal of another man 's entire future made her skin crawl . |
| 24 | The doctor had little sympathy for the Imperial . |
| 25 | ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed . |
| 26 | The history of health in Africa has shown often that medical research in isolation from its social context had little benefit for indigenous peoples . |
| 27 | Coming almost certainly from a middle-class or working-class home , once his seminary days were over he had little opportunity for further education . |
| 28 | Further , Lorca , a gifted painter and pianist , had little time for the academic qua academe . |
| 29 | With the exception of Hitchcock , whom they worshipped , they had little time for accepted and acclaimed directors , finding more value in the more commercial movies of , for instance , Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh . |
| 30 | School , especially for unskilled youths , was where you learnt that society had little time for you . |