Example sentences of "he had [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | hinting that he had plenty in the bank . |
| 2 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 3 | He made them sing softly and then to sing loudly — smoking a cigar and strolling up and down with his walking-cane he had everyone in the audience completely under his control . |
| 4 | ‘ He had me on the edge of my seat a couple of times . ’ |
| 5 | He had to put archers and javelin-throwers of his own up all the climbable trees before he had them on the run , and lost a dozen men to no purpose . |
| 6 | know her net curtains are all along her window , he had them in the front of the house and oh |
| 7 | And now he had her on the hook for the second time . |
| 8 | Before she could move he had her by the shoulders , his furious eyes blazing down at her . |
| 9 | He had her by the arms before she could move , his face like granite as he glared down at her . |
| 10 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 11 | In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee . |
| 12 | He had nothing of the self-assurance the Greeks liked to attribute to wise Jewish men . |
| 13 | He had nothing but the highest praise for you , sir . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But he had none of the grandiloquence of Vasco Núñez ; he uttered none of the proud formulae Balboa had uttered in the Gulf of San Migud . |
| 16 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 17 | The dropping of these conditions may have allowed my Great-grandfather to qualify , as by all I have heard about him he had none of the virtues which were needed to gain entry . |
| 18 | He had none of the prettiness of the boys she was accustomed to seeing in her circle of friends . |
| 19 | He had none of the equipment of a detective , neither being particularly observant nor having any great insight into the psychology of small boys . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 22 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 23 | Tell you what I bet he had it under the blankets reading his books . |