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Example sentences for: had

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Both drank, heavily at times; liked to get paid for what they wrote; and had contempt for lesser talents.
If one is fortunate enough to carry one of those Italian names beginning with Bon- or Buon(buono good), for example, one's value is announced to all the world: the parents of Michelangelo Buonarroti (arrota `gain,' from arrogare `to acquire'; the compound, say Hanks and Hodges, was originally bestowed when parents welcomed the birth of a child) probably were not surprised that he turned out so well, although they might have had even higher hopes for his little brother, Buonarroto Buonarroti .
I recently asked my wife, Maureen, an experienced editor, to review some material I had written for publication.
(Considering that the previous film had been The Sting, the announcer is missing the point when he allows a pause after films and then accentuates Robert Redford: surely the last three words really constitute a restrictive rather than a nonrestrictive phrase.)
Thus, criteria for inclusion were that a company had used or was using methylene chloride in an industrial process at the time of the study, and they agreed to participate in a scientific study and provide access and information as necessary to that study.