Example sentences of "have [prep] they the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were beasts , not men , but they had about them the features of nightmare , of ghosts , and though she recognized the animals of the forest in limbs , teeth and eyes , what struck her most powerfully was the element of madness in them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This ensured that all participants , when not presenting their own version , had before them the narratives of each of the other groups . |
| 5 | Historians still have before them the difficult task of charting the area before they can properly explore its hidden riches . |
| 6 | The old legends have not only this factor of being immortal , but they have in them the property of conferring the peak experience . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | We may seek to recreate care arrangements which no longer have within them the seeds of growth . |