Example sentences of "had [indef pn] [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 | A thorough examination of all the available hearth tax returns on a county basis will enable him to identify which parishes had someone with the appropriate surname living there during the reign of Charles II . |
23 | When we signed him his ability to go out on the wing , but then at sheffield they had someone in the middle for the cross . |
24 | Yes , I was told , they had somebody of the name of Skof . |
25 | I said at the time that reports are ALWAYS one sided when the score is 3–0 or 4–0 , this coupled with what I actually heard on radio 5 and what Ive seen of the goals is that Leeds had plenty of the ball , just found it hard to break a 6,7,8 man defence , and norwich looked dangerous on the counter attack . |
26 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
27 | Quakers had plenty of the early play but failed to create any clear chances from the six corners they forced in the opening period . |
28 | ‘ We had plenty of the ball but we did not look as if we could do anything from our set plays and we did not look likely to score from them . ’ |
29 | But we already had plenty for the pan and the freezer too . |
30 | hinting that he had plenty in the bank . |