Example sentences of "[adj] of [pers pn] have [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mostly , they are not psychologists : few of them have psychometric expertise . |
| 5 | Only a few of them have any idea what it is like for school to be a persistent diet of boredom , incomprehension and failure . |
| 6 | Although the majority submit willingly to this process , very few of them have any choice in the matter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Few of us have any idea of how much water we use on an average day . |
| 9 | Even the poorest of us have some money in our pockets some of the time . |
| 10 | Bradshaw , Foo , Doerner , Cooke : each of them had some claim to supremacy . |
| 11 | Neither of them had much appetite but they finished the wine . |
| 12 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 13 | Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience . |
| 14 | The princes ate their supper in silence , neither of them having much appetite . |
| 15 | Neither of you has any business bringing an unwanted " out of time " baby into the world . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Three of them had serious face and hand burns and were transferred to the burns unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary . |
| 18 | And all of them had various music jobs before meeting up . |
| 19 | And all of them had one thing in mind . |
| 20 | None of none of none of those have phone numbers but all of them have some sort of address . |
| 21 | Not all of us have such skill . |
| 22 | All of us have some Candida yeasts in our gut . |
| 23 | Also many of them have little inclination to cook much for themselves when they usually have to eat alone , and they prefer to use the smallest possible number of cooking utensils , pans and dishes which have to be washed up afterwards . |
| 24 | The reason for the hypergastrinaemia in the four idiopathic DU patients is also unclear and it is of note that only one of them had antral gastritis . |
| 25 | Several new chain cutter and hollow mortising and boring machines were installed , one of them having automatic action . |
| 26 | Well it would several of us have rheumatoid arthritis |
| 27 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 28 | The possibility of any of us having some kind of real experience is seen as having all but vanished , to be replaced by endless opportunity for witnessing things . |
| 29 | Are we the only dogs chosen for our star signs or have any of you had this star treatment ? |
| 30 | There were three diabetic patients , in the seris , and two of them had severe sepsis after operation . |