Example sentences of "have [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |
| 32 | For to have anything from the public one must satisfy the public and no one individual . ’ |
| 33 | Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature . |
| 34 | He had nothing but the highest praise for you , sir . |
| 35 | They had nothing but the meagre income provided by supplementary benefit . |
| 36 | In Venice she had nothing beyond the one case except for learning Italian , teaching English , sightseeing and trying to be patient with , and understand , her increasingly morose husband . |
| 37 | Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays . |
| 38 | South Africa had no-one of the athletic calibre of John Eales , Ian Jones or Michael Jones . |
| 39 | Do n't get me wrong — I 've nothing against the leather-clad hordes , for they are a cheerful fraternity . |
| 40 | " I 've nothing against the poor nips , " he said crossly ; " only , not now , we ca n't afford them now . " |
| 41 | A thorough examination of all the available hearth tax returns on a county basis will enable him to identify which parishes had someone with the appropriate surname living there during the reign of Charles II . |
| 42 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
| 43 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
| 44 | Not seeing Jane , however , was no cause for regret ; she had none of the kindly qualities of her husband . |
| 45 | If laboratory tests for HIV were not performed or gave indeterminate results , any of the conditions in the list below would indicate AIDS if it was diagnosed by a definitive method and the patient had none of the other causes of immunodeficiency listed below that could explain the occurrence of the indicator disease : |
| 46 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 47 | The use of qualifying standards meant the women had none of the awkward choices which confronted the men , also enabling them to bring in experienced campaigners like Christina Cahill ( 1,500 metres ) and Wendy Sly ( 3,000m ) , despite both runners having had restricted summer seasons . |
| 48 | The panels that ran along the walls were covered with large , functional looking controls that , thought the Doctor with distaste , had none of the elegant modernity of the TARDIS console . |
| 49 | His heroes had none of the traditional grandeur appropriate to demigods and he reduced the customary high language of the genre accordingly . |
| 50 | Bought clothing in the south had none of the hard-wearing qualities of northern home-spun . |
| 51 | This took the form of a recommendation to a university willing to take on an inspector , who often had none of the usual qualifications . |
| 52 | We worked in a special class and at a cracking pace — with a man called Harris , who had none of the contemporary difficulties about aims and objectives . |
| 53 | He was a short , precise man with a small moustache which reminded me a little of Hitler 's , but he had none of the German leader 's belligerence . |
| 54 | It had none of the institutional smell Alida had prepared herself for . |
| 55 | And , although the meeting of their lips had none of the searching hunger that they had shared before , there was something in the touch that reassured her . |
| 56 | I had none of the schizoid suicide 's delusions about being able to survive my own death . |
| 57 | It had none of the clinical efficiency of his mother 's , but it did remind him of his grandmother 's kitchen out on the farm , with its prosaic line of battered saucepans which shared a shelf with a large bowl for making bread and a hopeful looking collection of cake tins . |
| 58 | Claire Bloom , Chaplin 's girl protégé in Limelight ( 1952 ) , had none of the waif-like frailty of Paulette Goddard in City Lights ( 1931 ) but a look of cool composure and high caste . |
| 59 | Whatever authority it had , came not from the power of the speaker — he had none in the conventional sense — but from the cogency and relevance of what he said and the hope it inspired . |
| 60 | We rarely played close to the building which , when not lit up , had something of the baleful haunted house about it . |