Example sentences of "had at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail . |
| 2 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 3 | She liked her boss a lot more now than she had at the beginning of their relationship . |
| 4 | I think it 's the kind of food we 're using cos it 's different food from the food that we had at the beginning . |
| 5 | Like had at the beginning ? |
| 6 | But the battles I had at the BBC over The Monocled Mutineer and Tumbledown ! |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher expressed confidence that she would win and declared again , as she had at the outset , that even if she did not win outright she would continue to a second ballot no matter how narrow the margin of her majority over Heseltine . |
| 8 | In Raymond Aron 's words , ‘ The essence of capitalist exchange is to proceed from money to money by way of commodity and end up with more money than one had at the outset ’ . |
| 9 | She had at the back of her mind the thought that some new male companion might figure in it . |
| 10 | Gone , for example , is the cherished place that easel painting once had at the head of the hierarchy of media . |
| 11 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 12 | He wanted to press his mouth to her softly parted lips and taste the sweetness within , he wanted to push aside the loosely tied neck of her shift and let his hand savour the warmth of her flesh , he wanted to lay her back on the bed and hold her against him as he had at the river-crossing ; he wanted her . |
| 13 | I read , just as I had at the Moroneys , yet with the single difference in this case there was a young man , Aoin O'Heiher , a nephew of Liam O'Flaherty and he introduced me to writers like Eliot and Joyce . |
| 14 | The two strangers flanked Dorothy , making her wonder , as she had at the PopCon building , whether she could get away . |
| 15 | In Time magazine on the eve of the hearings Walter Shapiro offered advice for congressmen wishing to become stars , as Sam Ervin had at the Watergate hearings : they should play to the cameras , should not be afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves , and should never make the mistake of reading their questions . |
| 16 | They threw everything they had at the Swindon goal , but Hammond stopped the lot . |
| 17 | What I did was prepare a supplementary form to the one that we had at the management team meeting |
| 18 | She picked up another letter , and again read aloud : ‘ I think of you often and of the happy times we had at The Hall , and they were happy times . |
| 19 | Clearly we do not wish to go through the same debate that we had at the greenbelt inquiry , erm but it is very relevant erm you 'll see from our submissions to the panel that er quite clearly the City Council did not agree entirely with the proposed boundary of the greenbelt , the City Council did take the view that there were certain areas of land proposed to be included in the greenbelt er which did not fulfil a greenbelt function in the Council 's view , and that was clearly was discussed at the greenbelt inquiry , it was not just one site , er we clearly were not not in our er responsibility to identify a specific site outside our district , but there were a number of areas er subject to those objections , not just from ourselves , but as Mr erm Donson has said er from various objectors . |
| 20 | Easy on the whisky — there is not much left after the great crack we had at the McLaggans ’ . |
| 21 | It is impossible to describe all the uplifting and thought-provoking sessions we had at the Farm , but an especially wonderful experience for me was the fantasy meditation . |
| 22 | I know that the summaries of guidance is is in that list , and from the brief discussion we had at the careers officer 's meeting this week about summaries of guidance , I know we 're starting off the process by having representatives come to a meeting on the eleventh of May . |
| 23 | Everybody talks about the five he had at the end and the last hole , but he missed less than a two-foot putt on the first in the first round . |
| 24 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 25 | All I had at the end was a sore hand and broken fingernails . |
| 26 | The worst problem I had at the palace was the Queen 's dwarf . |
| 27 | He had been as surprised and chagrined at her choice as he had at the prospect of taking up a new job with an unknown PA , but there had been an additional and more disturbing reaction . |
| 28 | He must have had the same kind of feelings as my father had at the prospect of being sent to Fontanellato . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought you had a king-sized crush on that singer we had at the club three weeks ago . |
| 30 | ‘ That was what he was good at but at the time we did n't consider him any better than players we had at the club . |