Example sentences of "had [prep] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was strong of wing and yet had about her a frailty that suggested illness . |
| 2 | The gentle old men who took up the presidency of Lebanon had about them a streak of cold savagery that stunned even the Palestinians . |
| 3 | All were shabby ; all had about them the cleanliness of icy well-water , spoiled and fetid with the reek of the city , that nothing but fire could dispel . |
| 4 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 5 | It had about it an air of doom . |
| 6 | It had about it the idealism of youth . |
| 7 | Even this gesture , a mercenary movement , had about it the lilt of broken syllables . |
| 8 | They further confused the tone of a piece that had about it the whiff of 1970s radical agitprop . |
| 9 | Also , in June 1940 the concept of airborne forces was , as far as the British Army was concerned , at its very inception and had about it the fearfulness of the unknown . |
| 10 | The reason why the ’ three wise men ’ report was produced so quickly is that the three people whom I invited to deliver it — Mr. Alexander , Mr. Rose and Mr. Woodhead — had behind them a lifetime of experience and close involvement with primary schools , and they were able to distil that lifetime 's knowledge very rapidly . |
| 11 | By the 1930s Carlism had behind it a century 's experience of political and military struggle against Spanish liberalism . |
| 12 | It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on . |
| 13 | Fortunately I had with me a book of prose exercises that we had used at school , so , at random I chose one which I vaguely remembered . |
| 14 | When Gladys Aylward , the unstoppable English missionary , set off for China from Liverpool Street Station in 1930 , she had with her a suitcase containing hard-boiled eggs , meat cubes , tins of corned beef , baked beans , biscuits and soda cakes . |
| 15 | Dr Jaffery had with him a proof of the new translation of Inayat Khan 's Shah Jehan Nama while I had brought a leather-bound copy of Bernier 's Travels . |
| 16 | We had with us a Danakil from the Awash Station , not only as guide but also as hostage , and would not be releasing him until he found a replacement from the next tribe . |
| 17 | I had before me a selection of rounds , short flats and long flats in various sizes . |
| 18 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 19 | When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime . |
| 20 | He had before him the example of the barons of the kingdom who had taken the opportunity to extract from Henry far-reaching legal and financial concessions at the time of his coronation . |
| 21 | The judge had before him an application by a father made under the provisions of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction which comprise Schedule 1 to the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 . |
| 22 | The family proceedings court had before it an application by the local authority for a care order with respect to a child , L. , who is now nearly four years old . |
| 23 | Thus , the NSC had before it the State Department 's political assessment that the area was , to repeat , ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin' . |
| 24 | A side table was brought for McKillop and within a couple of minutes he had beside him a cup of tea and a plate with two small cakes upon it . |
| 25 | I was captured by the Gestapo during the war and was terrified because I had on me a number of incriminating documents , lists of names , maps and so on . |
| 26 | It had originally been built from the proceeds of the sale of indulgences and originally had on it a chapel to St. Anne . |