Example sentences of "had at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biddy brought some tapes of circus-sounding music and Uncle Bean played them in his car , and Spot stood up on his hindlegs and Jazz fell off more heavily than ever he had at a jump . |
| 2 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
| 3 | A report of June 16 noted that Armenia , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Moldova , Kazakhstan , Russia , Turkmenistan , and Uzbekistan had at a meeting in Minsk decided to introduce standardized customs tariffs and categorization of goods for foreign trade [ for customs agreement see p. 38874 ] . |
| 4 | He could neither move nor think , as if all power had at a stroke been cut off from both body and brain . |
| 5 | He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution . |
| 6 | Edwards , Manchester United 's chief executive and major shareholder , was at pains to emphasise that Knighton had been in a position to complete the deal , but had not done so ‘ in the interests of the club ’ and had at no time sought compensation . |
| 7 | On the subject of negotiations with the government , Mandela emphasized that he himself had at no time entered into negotiations about the future of the country — thus attempting to calm black fears arising from his various meetings with government ministers and the then President P. W. Botha . |
| 8 | It is misleading to regard the Soviet withdrawal from the Porkkala base in 1955–6 as the final stage of a phased withdrawal of Soviet troops from Finland when Soviet troops had at no stage occupied Finnish soil . |
| 9 | and McNeill J. , had to consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus , where justices had refused bail on the ground that there was likely to be interference with witnesses and had at an application for a further remand in custody declined to hear the defendant 's counsel who wished to renew the application for bail on the basis that there had been a material change of circumstances . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | She liked her boss a lot more now than she had at the beginning of their relationship . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Like had at the beginning ? |
| 15 | But the battles I had at the BBC over The Monocled Mutineer and Tumbledown ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | She had at the back of her mind the thought that some new male companion might figure in it . |
| 19 | Gone , for example , is the cherished place that easel painting once had at the head of the hierarchy of media . |
| 20 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The two strangers flanked Dorothy , making her wonder , as she had at the PopCon building , whether she could get away . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They threw everything they had at the Swindon goal , but Hammond stopped the lot . |
| 26 | What I did was prepare a supplementary form to the one that we had at the management team meeting |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Easy on the whisky — there is not much left after the great crack we had at the McLaggans ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |