Example sentences of "have [pron] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Be quiet , child , ’ said Philip , laying a hand restrainingly on Harry 's arm , though he would have preferred to lay it about his ears if he could have had him to himself for a moment .
2 Lord Justice Watkins would have none of it in the high court in January .
3 We should have something for you in a couple of days . ’
4 ‘ Because although we 'll try to outwit Balor , we might have him with us for a goodish while , ’ he said .
5 ‘ We 'll have it for you in a couple of days , ’ the woman told Lucy .
6 He 'll have it out himself with the Venetians . ’
7 Her father 's belief that people made their own luck was true , Cora-Beth thought , when by lunchtime the following day Harry had finished his business with the architect and her ruse to have him to herself for a few hours paid off .
8 She was godmother to my baby , and when it grew she took to it , and used to have it about her at the Castle , saying to everyone it was an orphan .
9 He thought he had them with him in the coach when going to the College , but did not see them again .
10 Beneath the surface of this gentle evening a complex and never-ending game , which had something in it of a duel , was being played , the players swimming in their milieu like fish , at different levels which they would occasionally switch , to make an attack or to retreat , to seize prey or to threaten .
11 Their departure had something in it of the bowed and wretched mien of Adam and Eve in the many ‘ expulsion ’ paintings he had later seen , and by then the Garden itself had a ruined look , paradise destroyed .
12 They need not prove that the accused had it with him with the intention of using it to cause injury to the person .
13 Well you do need to if you have them in them in the back now .
14 Sea Change and its successors have something in them of the career novel , a popular genre in the first decades after the Second World War , as well as the more general intention of inspiring youth to purposeful activity and ambitions .
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