Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am keen for them to have a greater opportunity to develop both their working and their family lives . |
| 2 | Also , you must ensure that there is sufficient time and resources for them to have a reasonable likelihood of success . |
| 3 | Although babies do n't really need to wear ‘ proper ’ shoes , it 's nice for them to have a soft covering in ‘ breathable ’ leather to protect their delicate feet . |
| 4 | It is difficult for them to have a high profile throughout the whole of the night and into the morning . ’ |
| 5 | That part of a social policy course that is concerned with describing policies and the institutions responsible for them has a clear face value to the social policy ‘ practitioner ’ . |
| 6 | Perhaps in the matter of excitement Davis and Baker between them had a special way of making the blood dance , but ( listen to the Overture , for instance ) Nelson achieves a fine clarity of texture and , even more than Davis , he makes the phrases ‘ speak ’ . |
| 7 | It 's a big honour for the choir , who between them have a combined age of 2,500 years . |
| 8 | It was so much the sort of remark one could only make to a girl friend , but Rupert took it very nicely and said with only slightly forced heartiness , ‘ Jolly good , and it 's an excuse for me to have a better meal than usual , too . |
| 9 | Those who are looking after her have a difficult task and it should not be made more difficult by being harassed by requests for information . |
| 10 | ‘ He hates to think of me having a good time , ’ said Camille . |
| 11 | At first some of them had a deceptive brightness , but their abominable quality soon revealed itself and decay rapidly set in . |
| 12 | None of them had a coherent programme , or strategy designed to bring the mass movement into power . |
| 13 | Each of them had a ten-to twelve-column-inch splash on the front page , with a picture of Dr. Briant standing glowering at the desk in the board room , and each of them carried leaders about Briant and his project . |
| 14 | That as it were milkman 's stool with three legs and each of them has a certain amount of power and it is a question of the adjustment of that power and it is not the of the power to my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and yet when things go wrong , and they do , in police forces and in local auth police authorities , what happens , people turn round to the Home Secretary and say what are you going to do about it . |
| 15 | If two assets have the same risk but one of them has a lower return than the other , then it is sold and the proceeds are invested in the other . |
| 16 | None of them has a sore throat . |
| 17 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 18 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 19 | One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings . |
| 20 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 21 | One of them has a fake beard . |
| 22 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 23 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 24 | The hamper would be a present for the three of them and she 'd be thinking of them having a jolly evening . |
| 25 | In fact , gardens that are long and narrow are among the more simple to design because they can be broken down very easily into separate garden areas or ‘ rooms ’ , each of them having a different function or theme . |
| 26 | Many of them have a wider spread of activities than we do , making things like glass containers , aluminium cans or paper and board products . |
| 27 | Visitors are catered for by hotels , guest houses and a large caravan park and many of them have a regular clientele . |
| 28 | Several of them have a vague impression of a coin-like disc near the base . |
| 29 | Yet ( while there are more lifers than there used to be ) most of them have a great deal to lose . |
| 30 | However most of them have a strong sense that in this celebration of the Church , Christ himself is present and feeds with Word and Sacrament those who come to him through faith . |