Example sentences of "had [prep] it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had about it the idealism of youth . |
| 2 | Even this gesture , a mercenary movement , had about it the lilt of broken syllables . |
| 3 | They further confused the tone of a piece that had about it the whiff of 1970s radical agitprop . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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' . |