Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] had the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The assault was stiffly resisted and at no time in their planning had the Germans calculated that the Belgians would do anything other than tamely submit . |
| 32 | The sons with their wives had the rooms , and the mother slept on a wide divan behind a curtain in a corner of the courtyard . |
| 33 | She answered the questions in her interrogation with perfect candour , but her answers had the effect of crystallising her basic thinking . |
| 34 | Nevertheless , the system worked remarkably well , in large part because it was designed to ensure that each of its members had the information he needed to do his job . |
| 35 | In this respect , their rhetoric had the principal aim of facilitating the reader 's response to these otherwise ‘ incomprehensible ’ texts whose erosion of conventional contours impeded the reader 's access . |
| 36 | One minute they were having a philosophical discussion , and the next a very physical encounter , in which Shelley felt that her companion had the greater advantage . |
| 37 | Her voice had the pubescent innocence of a junior high school majorette . |
| 38 | Her voice had the overtones of gentility which only Northerners seem able to achieve . |
| 39 | Never in her life had the penguin heard so many words . |
| 40 | It was as if , because she bore them so much love , the actions of her children had the power to anaesthetize some of her most cherished convictions . |
| 41 | Their horses had the old fashioned black plumes rising up from their harnesses . |
| 42 | But her mother had the same sort of chin . |
| 43 | I her mother had the shop |
| 44 | Although their creation had the disadvantage of prolonging the existence of the House of Lords long beyond its natural term , it has had one beneficial effect in broadening the representation of women in parliament . |
| 45 | Under its crown of smooth black hair , her face had the colour and texture of wax . |
| 46 | Beneath a halo of white hair , her face had the texture of a withered apple . |
| 47 | Manager Geoff Cooke and his coaches had the look of men unashamedly glad South Africa are not here on a longer tour because the Boks are getting better by the minute . |
| 48 | And his views had the full backing of Alan Smith , chief executive of the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 49 | His skin had the golden sheen of an eagle 's plumage … skin but not quite skin — oh yes ! thought Grainne , drowning in delight now . |
| 50 | Di Leonardo looked flabbergasted , as though never before in his experience had the media failed to be satisfied by the reading of a prepared statement . |
| 51 | His hair had the chestnut glints of George 's own and his brown eyes were steady with a touch of humour . |
| 52 | Did he wish his Nicandra had the same spark ? |
| 53 | He wrote , in The Dial for December 1922 , the most emphatically welcoming and apparently influential review of The Waste Land , and although this reads a little quaintly now because Wilson took very seriously Eliot 's supposed debt to Jessie L. Weston 's From Ritual to Romance ( which later criticism has taken lightly ) , his piece had the great virtue of conceding valid points to the opposition : |
| 54 | His words had the ring of truth about them . |
| 55 | He thrust into her ripe fig , obviously believing that his penis had the magic power to make her his slave forever . |
| 56 | In the glow from the marina lights his eyes had the sheen of hard blue steel . |
| 57 | And why , if his enemy had the same thought in mind , should he toss it back to him so carelessly ? |
| 58 | His dress was austere enough , but rich and ample , and worn with an authority that comes only by birth , and his movements had the unmistakable quality of nobility , the absolute conviction of one who has never had to hesitate or use caution and humility in order to placate his betters . |
| 59 | His child had the weight of all this on it . |
| 60 | His question had the cutting edge of a razor . |