Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her grief had none of the sanctions of legitimacy . |
| 2 | The home side had plenty of pressure , but they were beaten by a goal from Peterlee centre half Stephen Routledge after half an hour . |
| 3 | The unfortunate Met Officers all over Bomber Command had plenty of explaining to do during that summer , as the weather was unusually bad . |
| 4 | Her little squad had survived one firefight , but she 'd already lost a quarter of her manpower and she was sure that the enemy had plenty of reserves They needed rest and medication , that was the first priority . |
| 5 | Arab labour had none of the securities which Jewish labour enjoyed through its trade union federation , the Histadrut . |
| 6 | Jane Cristofani of image consultants Public Persona had plenty of style guidelines for Juliana . |
| 7 | The fireman had something over his shoulder . |
| 8 | The gunpowder plot had nothing on the game at the Manor . |
| 9 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 10 | The girl had something on her mind , and finally voiced it : ‘ Have you got a gun in there ? ’ |
| 11 | Bought clothing in the south had none of the hard-wearing qualities of northern home-spun . |
| 12 | The cutters of that period had plenty of alerts for illegal immigrant runs and most of the crews , apart from myself , had their share of successful interceptions . |
| 13 | The conference had nothing like the coverage of either the British Medical Association or Royal Institute of British Architects festivities , so its impact on the public at the time was negligible ; but it marked a significant turn in the Prince 's own farming methods , brought environmental concerns slowly into consumer consciousness and in the long term dealt a devastating blow to the agrochemical industry . |
| 14 | For a man like this , still living in the midst of the work which had been his life , retirement had none of its typical contemporary implications : he retained his technical authority along with his social networks and his familiar surroundings . |
| 15 | Their departure had something in it of the bowed and wretched mien of Adam and Eve in the many ‘ expulsion ’ paintings he had later seen , and by then the Garden itself had a ruined look , paradise destroyed . |
| 16 | The strategic concept had everything in its favour ; for success it required efficient planning and ruthless aggression . |
| 17 | But the other had somebody in it . |
| 18 | The other had nothing in it but some make-up , a purse containing two pounds and some silver and a packet of cigarettes . ’ |
| 19 | I 'd ruled that out because London numbers are seven-digit and Sal and Frank 's private radio phone had something like twenty-seven . |
| 20 | Loners who worked and worked , and at the end of the day had nothing except their families . |
| 21 | But that last half-mile is the one that counts and of the front half-dozen , only Party Politics , Romany King and the Irish-trained Laura 's Beau had anything in reserve . |
| 22 | But the reasoning of the leading scientific intellects of the age had nothing like so much effect as an obscure little Japanese fishing boat named the Lucky Dragon which was 85 miles from Bikini Atoll when Dr Teller 's H-bomb went off . |
| 23 | If , in the real world , you could n't always realise the perfection of the model , the miniature , the diagram , at least the pattern had something in it to be pleased about . |
| 24 | It was ironic that now everybody in our district had plenty of money for food they could n't obtain it because everything was rationed . |
| 25 | The library had nothing on the shelves but the floor was littered with volumes open and lying face down . |
| 26 | But the ordinary man on the beat had nothing like that . |
| 27 | Whether a visitor came for a particular story or whether the old woman had one in mind she wanted to relate , the preliminaries were the same : she entered into a state approaching that of a trance . |
| 28 | In other words , by the 1770s and after Berton 's reforms , debate had nothing at all to do with audible stick signals , but everything to do with the presence of a conducteur , communicating visually . |
| 29 | Perhaps the young man had something on his side after all . |
| 30 | It had looked suspicious , I had done right to inform them , they said kindly , but the man had nothing on his person at all , and said he had been after rabbits . |