Example sentences of "[adj] of [pers pn] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , when adults were accompanying children , during a similar three-minute period , less than half of them had any communication at all with their children ; and in two-fifths of the pairs ‘ what took place was negative ’ . |
| 2 | Some of them had crucial help from the Israeli secret service , Mossad ) Those army commanders who did not immediately his were not so lucky . |
| 3 | I tried to help some of those that were hurt but some of them had dreadful injuries . |
| 4 | Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ? |
| 5 | Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ? |
| 6 | The number of people is , to an extent , a function of union rules , but some of them have real jobs to do . |
| 7 | I shall consider the implications of these developments more fully in the conclusion , as some of them have obvious connections with , and consequences for , the examination system . |
| 8 | Bedrooms are comfortably furnished , and some of them have excellent views of the surrounding mountains . |
| 9 | ‘ Some of them have 58-inch wheels and seeing one has been described as looking like a gothic cathedral coming towards you . ’ |
| 10 | Some of them have active debates within their countries on that matter . |
| 11 | And again some of them have different values of units . |
| 12 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 13 | This column has been set aside for the punchcard machines , but I 'm not forgetting that some of you have manual machines and I hope in future issues in to include something for you from time to time . |
| 14 | In the past , they had a handsome lifestyle , but few of them have new projects to pursue ; all they can do is sit on their hands , rueing the day they paid so much for the land they were keen to build on . |
| 15 | Mostly , they are not psychologists : few of them have psychometric expertise . |
| 16 | Only a few of them have any idea what it is like for school to be a persistent diet of boredom , incomprehension and failure . |
| 17 | Although the majority submit willingly to this process , very few of them have any choice in the matter . |
| 18 | Few of us have much time to spend on lavish flower arrangements , but this innovative little book will show you how to create stunning yet simple displays . |
| 19 | Few of us have any idea of how much water we use on an average day . |
| 20 | Even the poorest of us have some money in our pockets some of the time . |
| 21 | Bradshaw , Foo , Doerner , Cooke : each of them had some claim to supremacy . |
| 22 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 23 | It is not easy to achieve the recommendation of the HMI document The Curriculum from 5 to 16 , that pupils should be able to use what they learn for their own purposes , because each of us has different purposes in life , and what is relevant to one pupil will not be relevant to another . |
| 24 | Each of us have different ways of trying to express this change . |
| 25 | Neither of them had much appetite but they finished the wine . |
| 26 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 27 | Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience . |
| 28 | The princes ate their supper in silence , neither of them having much appetite . |
| 29 | Neither of you has any business bringing an unwanted " out of time " baby into the world . |
| 30 | Only eight of us had any sort of previous military experience : Marius , myself , Chris , a German from Oberammergau who had killed a tourist in the celebrations surrounding the Passion Play , a Frenchman , Mike the Rhodesian , and a Portuguese and a Rumanian who had both served with their countries ' airborne regiments . |