Example sentences of "have [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 2 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 3 | The human being has within it the physical and mental capacity to do this , and must accept that there is no alternative way for it to be done . |
| 4 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 5 | It did not have for him the magnetic feel of the two letters which were folded into his pocket , but it represented the tease of curiosity . |
| 6 | But as he walked at her side through the dark halls of the Grail Castle , he remembered , and wished not to remember , that she might well have within her the strange power that could awaken all manner of sleeping bewitchments and lost enchantments . |
| 7 | She had about her the rich glow of a woman who excelled at everything which constituted a woman 's work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They were facing a mounting legal bill , whereas Cassidy had behind him the huge resources of the diocese — much of it contributed by gays and lesbians , Moreover , the Chancellor 's opinion was clear . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The largest section under David Stirling , who had with him the repaired ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ , headed for the escarpment above Fuka . |
| 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 | Historians still have before them the difficult task of charting the area before they can properly explore its hidden riches . |
| 14 | The documents he mentions are those which now have in them the forged primatial passages , and the only question which arises is : were these passages already in them when Lanfranc wrote these words , or were they added later ? |