Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [pron] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my day we had the As as the top stream ; the Bs and Cs were the mid-range ; the Es were ESN and the Ds were the dustbin men who roamed the yard after break and lunch times collecting empty milk bottles and rubbish . |
| 2 | The coolly spoken words were like a bucket of ice-cold water thrown in her face , but instead of restoring her composure it had the opposite effect of stoking her anger all the more . |
| 3 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 4 | After listening to my Sikh sisters ' accounts of their lives and relationships and the sensitive Izzat of their men I had the feeling that for Sikhs Izzat is not pride or honour — it is male ego , pure and simple . |
| 5 | This would baffle her friends and her students who had the impression that she was engaged in some vast if imprecise enterprise . |
| 6 | A committee may be pardoned for insisting on hearing candidates they had never heard , but it is scarcely pardonable that they should expect one who is not a candidate , and whose qualifications they had the best opportunity of knowing , to stake his reputation in any such way . |
| 7 | Before he lost his money he had the good sense to commission John Soane to design the Campden Hill Square house . |
| 8 | The Ray-Bans obscured his eyes , but from the subtle hardening of his jaw she had the feeling she 'd angered him . |
| 9 | Of Gleizes ' work he said : ‘ Standing in front of his canvases I had the very definite impression of a sobering up after an Impressionist debauch . ’ |
| 10 | To prove his divinity he had the praetorians of his planetary guard butcher all the Preachers of the Imperial Cult and all Administratum officials whom he could catch — while the Pontifex of the Imperial Cult was winched down into a volcano . |
| 11 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 12 | Under his hair-net he had the defiant air of a faded beauty . |
| 13 | Since he regarded the crutches as extensions of his arms he had the habit of windmilling them about in moments of excitement . |
| 14 | I remember Geoff telling me this , tears streaming down his face , marvelling at how it was his children who had the strength to carry on , and that it was they who had this practical , yet profound way of reaching to the heart of the matter . |
| 15 | He was dressed in swimming-shorts and a garish red-and-white water-polo player 's cap , and in his hand he had the blue rubber flippers and a pair of underwater masks and schnorkels . |
| 16 | The very mention of his name caused her to tremble , and in his company she had the curious sensation that her feet and her nose had enlarged out of all proportion . |
| 17 | On our course we had the most enchanting fellow — a flight heutenant doctor and his name was Tom MacDonald — who eventually became one of the most senior Medical Officers in the RAF . |
| 18 | Thus , if in our example we had the non-linear restriction it would not really be valid to use the F distribution . |