Example sentences of "had the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well who , who noticed that you had the least Brummie accent ? |
| 2 | The children with whom I worked had the least opportunity in terms of personal development and careers , and they were likely to be drawn into a variety of different forms of behaviour , among which the first was often the use of and then addiction to tobacco . |
| 3 | I never had the least interest in games . |
| 4 | Far example , madam , my life ; my life , madam is a perpetual stream of pleasure , that glides through such a variety of entertainments , I believe the wisest of our ancestors never had the least conception of any of 'em . |
| 5 | As for Mr. Williams , he never had the least encouragement from me . |
| 6 | The biggest landowners , who could best afford to erect new dwellings with a reasonable standard of construction and sanitation , had the least incentive to do so — indeed , as the principal local ratepayers they might easily penalize themselves by attracting workers who could later apply for poor relief . |
| 7 | Before the NHS was established , critics had noted that the ‘ inverse care law ’ seemed to apply : those regions in which the need for health care was the greatest had the fewest resources . |
| 8 | She had the few pounds from her wages ( and thank heaven she had not thrown it back in the vicar 's face ) . |
| 9 | The latter group had the most difficulties and the greatest number of demands from the children . |
| 10 | And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid . |
| 11 | The panel of judges was selected from leading retailers , briefed to select the winner as the range of carpets which had the most originality and innovation with outstanding sales potential . |
| 12 | He had the most stars on his books , he had the most friends and he gave the most renowned New York parties . |
| 13 | That part of the image which had the most resonance both with elderly workers and their employers was that of ‘ retirement impact ’ — that is , of the physical and mental ill effects assumed to be associated with retirement . |
| 14 | He had the most stars on his books , he had the most friends and he gave the most renowned New York parties . |
| 15 | Clarke said Chelmsford would be approaching the tournament as one of the favourites , but much depended on who prepared the best , had the most luck and stayed free of injuries . |
| 16 | In a sprint for second place at the finish it was the German pair who had the most power left . |
| 17 | They started to fight about who had the most crayons and mother tried to intervene and tell them both off for making a noise . |
| 18 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 19 | She and Elspeth had the most books of any girls in the street . |
| 20 | We 've got a lot of different opinions there , I mean from my personal experience when I was a customer sales manager my , my students or particularly some of them , well I would say the brightest kind of people in the branch , and they had the most attention , and it 's very easy I think to write them off . |
| 21 | The youngest dead had the most flowers , |
| 22 | And why , if his enemy had the same thought in mind , should he toss it back to him so carelessly ? |
| 23 | Unfortunately , they also had the same lack of humour , but Bruce and Tina had many occasions to be glad of their proximity . |
| 24 | Finally , and perhaps most importantly , this account fails to explain why it is that the forms of state intervention have shown tremendous variability in capitalist economies and why it is that not every country had the same welfare and interventionist economic policies . |
| 25 | Further south in Cambridgeshire there are two or three alternative routes , parallel to and east of the present A1 which had the same origin . |
| 26 | I bet its no coincidence that during our Glory Days we had the same players year in year out . |
| 27 | Alain became interesting to his father when he showed that he was exceptionally clever and had the same flair for finance . |
| 28 | The six villages ( they are now small towns ) each had the same structure . |
| 29 | It should be public property and would be so if the millionaire had the same heart and principles of Beefy . |
| 30 | There is evidence that it became the practice for individuals to be named after the day on which they were born and that couples were not allowed to marry if their birthdays had the same numeral . |