Example sentences of "had [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |
| 2 | Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature . |
| 3 | He had nothing of the self-assurance the Greeks liked to attribute to wise Jewish men . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 5 | They had nothing but the meagre income provided by supplementary benefit . |
| 6 | He had nothing but the highest praise for you , sir . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was wrong there , having misjudged the mood of Londoners , because even those who were completely bombed out and had nothing except the clothes they stood up in , nearly all came back again when the bombing eased off and they could find a roof to cover them . |
| 9 | Old Ma Grace had nothing on the lass from Junagadh . |
| 10 | The library had nothing on the shelves but the floor was littered with volumes open and lying face down . |
| 11 | The gunpowder plot had nothing on the game at the Manor . |
| 12 | But I remember only too well the time when we had nothing in the bank and we lived in rented property because we 'd sold our home to keep me racing . |
| 13 | So what did she mean , the proprietress of the lugubrious little estaminet on the banks of the lovely Loire , what could she have meant when she said she had nothing in the house for lunch ? |
| 14 | Once there was a poor young nobleman who had nothing in the world but a ruined castle in the forest , a horse , and a hound . |
| 15 | Sh we had nothing in the house at all . |
| 16 | Whilst I had nothing in the way of academy to display , I had won an open competition at the YMCA Baghdad Tennis Tournament , and was scrum-half for a 15 that was scratched up to play odd sides like the Palestine Police , or a crew from a Red Sea sloop on a visit . |
| 17 | The conference had nothing like the coverage of either the British Medical Association or Royal Institute of British Architects festivities , so its impact on the public at the time was negligible ; but it marked a significant turn in the Prince 's own farming methods , brought environmental concerns slowly into consumer consciousness and in the long term dealt a devastating blow to the agrochemical industry . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | South Africa had no-one of the athletic calibre of John Eales , Ian Jones or Michael Jones . |
| 22 | Their forwards will also need to scrummage far better than they did against Armary , Genet and Gallart , who had them under the cosh from the second minute . |
| 23 | ‘ We had them on the run by then . |
| 24 | As far as the as far as A level as far as A level plays are concerned I think with had them on the stage before now over the last five ten years as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It looked as though Hereford 's away form was changing for the better on Saturday when they drew at Mansfield , but last night an attacking display by struggling Doncaster had them on the retreat again . |
| 27 | you 're absolutely spot on , cos you had them on the other one did n't you ? |
| 28 | I see you later than , oh where 's the car keys I had them on the . |
| 29 | I had them down the side . |
| 30 | Well they get over the top , we had them over the top , hanging over the top . |