Example sentences of "had a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have told me you had a ticket to Miami to go and shoot herself and Jimmy Zaidie but you cancelled it , although I know you did go to Miami subsequently ( around Christmas time 1986 ) to carry out your threat . ’ |
| 2 | In union negotiations , for example , I always found that if you had a heart to heart with the opposition , the single leader , you could probably gain something . |
| 3 | She 'll probably write her memoirs : she always had a yen to be a writer , though her pen dribbles cliches . |
| 4 | Anyway , from there we went to Gorkham where we are here with five of us , that was , that was the job , we had a cottage to ourselves . |
| 5 | Before the reactor had a chance to work ( or more accurately , fail ) Peron fell from power . |
| 6 | ‘ We wanted these players all to know that each one of them had a chance to be in the French Davis Cup team . |
| 7 | The voice was deep and had a drawl to it that Lizzy did n't like . |
| 8 | Many years after his death Carlo was sanctified and a successor as Archbishop of Milan — another member of the Borromeo family , Federico — had a statue to him erected near Arona . |
| 9 | So maybe if you had a chat to the admissions person and a chat to the social work contact we 've got in York , |
| 10 | Erm so I had a chat to him . |
| 11 | Joseph Robinson was aware of what was good for business but he was also a man who prided himself on his love of sport : this meant that he had a responsibility to knowledge and experience . |
| 12 | The council had a responsibility to local businesses and should respond positively by allowing the change of use . |
| 13 | The committee carried out a range of fascinating research and confirmed what the public knew already , namely that the ham sandwiches available in motorway cafeterias had a tendency to be ‘ thin , tasteless ham in soggy bread ’ . |
| 14 | Many clients had a tendency to just store their money away and not do anything with it and sit in clothes that did n't belong to them . |
| 15 | In strong winds , however , the sides of the tent had a tendency to cave in and flap about . |
| 16 | And he was also very tired : when sitting to Wyndham lewis in the spring , he had a tendency to drowsiness and sometimes slumber . |
| 17 | Fourth and finally , the social composition of the Council — which had a tendency to be more upper class than the Assembly , and to be drawn more from the traditionally , almost professionally political families — must have inclined it to play the master not the servant . |
| 18 | Her response had been poor and she had a resistance to anti-depressants . |
| 19 | ‘ She had a distance to her and everyone was in awe of her , ’ she recalls . |
| 20 | The subject had a mission , just as the international organization that was created by the peacemakers , the League of Nations , had a mission to the international political system . |
| 21 | In fact everything about him was shiny ; his hair , face , clothes , briefcase , shoes , fingernails , even his ears had a shine to them . |
| 22 | Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter . |
| 23 | On the Wednesday morning , Eduardo and I had a foray to his son 's flat in Tufnell Park to get some things Francis and Audrey need for the house in Brussels now they are working there . |
| 24 | Her dark red suit , and the shoulder bag that swung carelessly , indicated that she also had a trip to town in view . |
| 25 | they certainly had a try to . |
| 26 | Was it possible that for the sake of prayer and guidance of souls he had a calling to the unmarried state ? |
| 27 | At the end of WWII , the Beverley , East Yorks firm of Richard Hodgson 's Tannery had a Memorial to those employees who lost their lives in the two world wars displayed on the outside wall of their social club . |
| 28 | My grandmother , right , had a back to back No listen , this is funny , she lived in a tenement in er which is n't there anymore actually just up by the river , up by the Angel , and there was nine people living there in two rooms and they had a lodger and the lodger , so they did have |
| 29 | For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university . |
| 30 | It was difficult to believe that they had a life to the left or right of that stretch of wire . |