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

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1 This had them all looking at each other .
2 Four troopers had them by the arms and were hustling them out into the coach .
3 Bishop Cosin 's original colours of the roof , from the seventeenth century , were discovered during the restoration and Ramsey had them brightly restored .
4 We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows .
5 Of course he needed to finance so improbable a research programme , so he sold his dragons to an Emperor , who had them minced up and served to him garnished with spit-roasted swallows ' tongues , at one of his less important banquets .
6 ‘ We had them on the run by then .
7 Had them since he was twenty ’ she said .
8 They had them sub-titled in order to be sold abroad for possible profit .
9 They chose their own successors , had them elected , and watched while their protégés acquired both democratic respectability and democratic unpopularity .
10 I could imagine my aunt as a young girl asking for the latest of the books for birthday or Christmas until she had them all .
11 The fact that the bereaved mother cherished these verses , and had them printed after her husband 's death , presumably indicates that she derived comfort from them .
12 They had them wound round buttons , tied in buttonholes , pinned to their sleeves ; anywhere they could hang them .
13 ‘ Fishmongers had them , ’ Gaily had said .
14 Did you know that in London — because they had them there first , of course , some years ago — in London , the — well , beatniks really , are n't they ?
15 Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls .
16 Wedgewood on German drinking habits : ‘ The Landgrave of Hesse founded a Temperance society but its first president died of drink ; Lewis of Württemberg , surnamed the pious , drank two challengers into stupor and , being himself still sober , had them sent home in a cart with a pig .
17 The idea of that drunken old package wriggling on her back in the snow unable to get up , had them all in fits .
18 Rangers had them in abundance , none greater than Nigel Spackman , one of their foreigners .
19 They missed a few kicks at goal but they nailed Northampton to their line and worked up such a storm that they had them scurrying all ways .
20 I had them done when I was a kid , in 1985 and 1986 .
21 He had them all fixed in his mind .
22 The music had them all .
23 Charles ordered these epics to be written out — although his son , Louis the Pious , unfortunately had them destroyed when he came to the throne , on account of the pagan content .
24 However , Miller praised the English cauliflower , originally from Cyprus , and commented that in France they rarely had them until near Michaelmas while Holland was generally supplied from England , and Germany had only recently started to cultivate them .
25 ‘ Tock had them made to save time , ’ said the Headmaster .
26 I had them ? ’ asked Endill , trying not to sound too eager .
27 They only reached Azzano , where a partisan leader , fearful of the kind of publicity the Italians would receive if they handed over their ex-Duce to the Allies , had them put up against a wall and shot .
28 Libion , the kindly café proprietor , was so exasperated that he had them all thrown out .
29 The first major American pension scheme , by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1884 , was comparatively late ; yet by 1926 three-quarters of American companies with over 1,000 workers had them .
30 He had them set up his bier at the end of the hall , draped in black velvet , and its handles tasselled in black and gold .
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