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

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1 Often the wonderful natural natural story-teller in Walker breaks through the marshmallow and has us on the edge of the chair , but finally and lamentably this is a failure .
2 After all , I was more of an outsider there than at home , being out of my milieu and having none of the social graces or advantages of my fellow-pupils .
3 It is much better to have one review and to have it at the beginning of the Parliament , and that is exactly what we shall do .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Her hair had been re-styled and had nothing of the incompetent dye job that had once been her most eyecatching feature .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 They quickly saw that and had me in the theatre the next day .
10 Charles was about the same age as Richie and had something of the same military bearing .
11 Towards the front of the hall , which was coldly functional and had none of the baroque charm of Blackpool 's Winter Gardens , sat a group of Young Conservatives , their tattooed arms hidden beneath designer jackets .
12 I had a poster done out and had it outside the town hall .
13 The main differences I see between the shop here and Christian bookshops in Britain are ( a ) that we can order books from an express supplier in the morning and have them in the afternoon , which is very good and ( b ) that there are more books about Israel and the Jews .
14 And have them in the get their feed first thing in the morning you see .
15 I know nothing about the Resistance , and have nothing against the forces of the occupation .
16 Jesus said , ‘ I have come that they may have life and have it to the full ’ ( John 10:10 ) .
17 So I am trying to get the new librarian to push all those books into one section … and maybe we could have a trolley and push that around and have it in the lower school …
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