Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some later biographies survive of the Pythagoreans who settled in Italy , and these describe the oligarchic governments and even federations of cities which they established , but the details can not be trusted : ‘ saint literature ’ is notoriously fanciful , and these are hellenistic treatises whose authors had ideas of their own about the theory of kingship ; these have probably contaminated the biographical material beyond salvage . |
| 2 | Styczynski had x-rays after saying that he had pains in his chest and pins and needles in his arms . |
| 3 | ‘ About two hours later — it seemed like a life-time , my legs had cramp and I was sore all over — the car slowed down . |
| 4 | Furthermore , one-third of severely retarded readers had conduct disorders . |
| 5 | Tillyard could defend his belief in such a body by the existence of a considerable number of Renaissance texts in cheap , modern editions which general readers had access to . |
| 6 | The two brothers had conversation after conversation on the theme of religion , the younger one sticking to his guns . |
| 7 | The brothers had money to burn and they were often in disguise , George specialising in the part of a naval officer , Joseph as his valet . |
| 8 | The candidates had strength and stamina and charm , and Fergus , presiding over the banquet , watching them perform feats of skill and endurance and strength , smiled . |
| 9 | His blisters had blisters on them . |
| 10 | In fact the relationship was negatively allometric ; bigger animals had home-ranges that were bigger in absolute terms from those of smaller animals , but smaller relative to their body size . |
| 11 | When I looked at her her eyes had tears in them like my own . |
| 12 | Her enormous blue eyes had tears glistening on their lashes . |
| 13 | Even her eyes had blood on them . |
| 14 | All ex-L.C.C. depôts had traversers instead of track fans ( except Brixton Hill ) . |
| 15 | Staff of both units had office accommodation at 6 South Oswald Road in Edinburgh . |
| 16 | Metalheads had Donington , goths had the Electric Ballroom , Stranglers fans had each other and as for the rest , well , too bad . |
| 17 | The survivors had character . |
| 18 | County Durham and Cleveland could have faced serious water shortages had Keilder reservoir not been built , a water environment group heard . |
| 19 | A back staircase , originally for servants , ran from ground-floor level to attics and was entered from a door to which Ian , Theodora and the clergy had keys . |
| 20 | If the clergy had privileges , they also had commensurate duties . |
| 21 | All three main parties had reconstruction committees working on postwar plans by 1941 , while professional groups such as the BMA and the Town and Country Planning Association provided their own schemes . |
| 22 | The place was too full of memories ; like the day she 'd discovered most kids had mothers , not just a Bran . |
| 23 | If these kids had jobs to do , they would n't be free to do this and they 'd be gainfully working . ’ |
| 24 | Kids had bath at Bob 's . |
| 25 | The ratio for the Dow Jones Industrial Index was 0.6673 while the average for the 34 funds was 0.633 and only 11 of the funds had ratios higher than that of the index . |
| 26 | By now , some of Tiller 's Girls were truly world travellers ; the best troupes had bookings in Paris , St Petersburg , San Francisco , Berlin , Cape Town , Hanover , Geneva , Vienna , Buenos Aires and Hamburg . |
| 27 | Like , this guy 's loons had style . |
| 28 | If magpies had names all would be well . |
| 29 | When I was much younger , and not as religious as I am today , I thought that religious Jews had sex through a hole in a sheet , wore clothes from the last century , and were generally out of touch with life and the world we live in . |
| 30 | His story is that the Jews had difficulty in getting corn from Egypt in times of famine , and Antiochus IV made war on Egypt to help his Jewish subjects . |