Example sentences of "had [prep] [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Romans tended to be suspicious of novelty , and the word ‘ novus ’ had for them a sinister ring , although their memory of the past reminded them that change had often come about , although at first resisted . |
| 2 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 3 | Tall , ruddy-faced and tending to corpulence in his early forties , he had about him the self-satisfied air of a man who has already achieved some measure of public acclaim ; he wore his thick shock of fair hair brushed across his forehead from a centre parting in two matching wings , and his upper lip was thatched with a fashionably luxuriant mustache . |
| 4 | Also , as West European capitalism filtered across Germany and set in motion the inevitable homogenisation of markets and language within the customs union , the reaction of the Polish subject people , who were after all not the primary , nor even secondary , beneficiaries of capitalist modes of production and the spread of profit , and who had behind them a different set of cultural and political orientations , was similar to that of the Germans . |
| 5 | Unlike the Scandinavian seafarers , however , the sixteenth-century Russians enjoyed an enormous military advantage over the indigenous people they encountered by having guns , and in addition they had behind them the organized power of the centralized state of Muscovy . |
| 6 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 7 | I had with me a good friend who knows the region well — he lives there — and he was following our route on a map . |
| 8 | For , although King Oswy followed the Celtic practice , his consort , Queen Eanfleda , who had with her a Kentish priest named Romanus , adhered to the Roman practice . |
| 9 | Raynor said , ‘ He had with him a young boy , little more than a child , it seemed . |
| 10 | When he and Ricky returned in December , Minton had with him a considerable mass of drawings and watercolours . |
| 11 | There they were met by Viscount Aimar , who had with him a large force of Gascon routiers under a chief called William Arnald . |
| 12 | He also had in him the wrathful patriarch of the Protestant religion , for he was the product of the two warring faiths , of an Irish Catholic mother and an Irish Presbyterian father , and of the Sunday ritual my mother would repeatedly describe as if narrating the auspicious early life of a saint . |
| 13 | It was about ten minutes long and he had before him a two-hour train journey . |
| 14 | A month later , on 15 July , the Cabinet had before it a further memorandum from the Home Secretary which ventilated some alternative strategies : |
| 15 | In fact all matter had within it a divine spark of life . |
| 16 | It had on it an enormous photo of Bernard in hot pursuit of a cartoon of two bikini clad girls . |
| 17 | Boswell had a fire in his ‘ most elegant ’ room overlooking the sea , but he did not sleep well because the sea made its wild noises , and the pillows were stuffed with the feathers of ‘ some sea-fowl , which had to me a disagreeable smell ’ . |