Example sentences of "had [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was screaming and waggling her legs for all she was worth , but the cruel loops of nylon had her about the wrists , the kite was in the jaws of the wind , and she was already well out of reach even if I had wanted to catch her . |
| 32 | The stranger had her by the arm . |
| 33 | Well we had him for the weekend and er looking back on the weekend we were reasonably impressed with the man and his wife . |
| 34 | They had him on the floor . |
| 35 | This was the fifth time I had him on the floor , so the referee was right to stop it ’ . |
| 36 | The story was based on the real-life birth of Crawford 's younger daughter , Lucy , and had him on the hospital delivery table at one point , after fainting . |
| 37 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 38 | You had him at the Lord Howe , that 's the last I know . |
| 39 | Things were put in his tyres to cause a puncture , which had him under the most extreme tension and pressure . |
| 40 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 41 | You had him in the palm of your hand and let him escape . |
| 42 | Almost trembling with haste , I put the binoculars up again , found him , activated the automatic focus , pressed the button , heard the quiet click of the shutter : had him in the bag . |
| 43 | Penn 's next film had him in the headlines again . |
| 44 | But I started labour and just had him in the room . |
| 45 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
| 46 | A constable had him by the arm and was turning him about — was that all ? no arguments ? |
| 47 | But she turned away without looking at him and the next moment Doyle had him by the arm and was hauling him upstairs . |
| 48 | Todger practically had him by the throat . |
| 49 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 50 | But if he was going to carry the coffin he had to go to the funeral service , so the Church had him by the balls again , as it had , more or less , since he was born . |
| 51 | ‘ No I had him by the balls . |
| 52 | For once they had him by the balls . |
| 53 | She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold . |
| 54 | Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' . |
| 55 | we had it for the weekend once |
| 56 | I had a poster done out and had it outside the town hall . |
| 57 | Me , I 've tucking had it with the small place . |
| 58 | I 'd rather you had it with the no sound in here see if you can beat your re what 's your record ? |
| 59 | Had it with the shop ? |
| 60 | Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public . |