Example sentences of "had [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ We had them on the run by then .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 you 're absolutely spot on , cos you had them on the other one did n't you ?
7 I see you later than , oh where 's the car keys I had them on the .
8 I had them down the side .
9 Well they get over the top , we had them over the top , hanging over the top .
10 Four troopers had them by the arms and were hustling them out into the coach .
11 Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place .
12 In the big American museums you no longer have brilliant ‘ star ’ directors the way you had them in the Sixties and Seventies people like Sherman Lee at Cleveland , Fred Cummings at Detroit , Tom Hoving at the Met who could manage 5,000 projects at once , either making brilliant acquisitions , or putting on unusual or daring exhibitions , or making outrageous statements that might get them censured today .
13 Yeah they had them in the little packs , okay ?
14 Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series .
15 He could n't even run down to the village to get a new set — they had them in the marina shop at the auto-marine-because his van was temporarily off the road .
16 All held The big farmers had them in the barn .
17 Aye and erm they had them in the window there twelve ninety nine .
18 Well where would you , mind you I suppose like in the olden days you could only get big prams , they just had them in the living room did n't they ?
19 know her net curtains are all along her window , he had them in the front of the house and oh
20 I think he fakes this , just because they had them in the books .
21 ‘ He had me on the edge of my seat a couple of times . ’
22 But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end .
23 in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding .
24 They had me in the holding cells at headquarters .
25 I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it .
26 They quickly saw that and had me in the theatre the next day .
27 You could be you could be lured into a position where if , if the management had you by the tails , thinking along the same line , then you could never be an efficient , you know , negotiator .
28 Er had they by the time you were still at school come on to that new erm er system where you speak a lot more ?
29 Today had her on the front page , in full colour .
30 Oh so long before John and I , but er , oh no they all had her under the thumb .
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