Example sentences of "[prep] they have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monks ' cells , just visible through the windows of the women 's dormitories , lay 500 yards away , far enough for them to have required a telescope and searchlights if disturbance had been on their minds . |
| 2 | Indeed most of them had made a kind of negative progress . |
| 3 | On Sunday all of them had attended a cousin 's wedding . |
| 4 | Indeed , if any one of them had killed a cat , even in these special circumstances , he would have been put to death for it . |
| 5 | If any of them had displayed a leaning towards the stage , Dinah would no doubt have encouraged it ; but they had neither the presence nor the voice , nor , she would think despairingly , looking round them all , the appearance ; every one was Paul over again . |
| 6 | The men used matches to see around , one of them had lit a straw bail to get more light . |
| 7 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 8 | Benny was the only one they knew without brothers and sisters , most of them had to share a Mam and a Dad with five or six others . |
| 9 | Neither of them had spoken a word since leaving London . |
| 10 | Senior Household officials like the Treasurer of the Chamber , the Chamberlain , the Vice Chamberlain , the Captain of the Guard , the Controller of the Household , and the Treasurer of the Household evidently held their posts under the Tudors without a patent and at the pleasure of the monarch , although by the reign of Charles I many of them had acquired a life interest . |
| 11 | But the two of them had had a falling-out on the night of the capitalization party . |
| 12 | Getting no satisfaction from that quarter a few of them had taken a problem to a union meeting . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater . |
| 14 | ‘ One of them 's got a stethoscope , ’ she said . |
| 15 | And one of them 's got a brother in the IRA . |
| 16 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 17 | For example , if there are several quite unrelated species of unpalatable butterflies living in one particular region and one of them has evolved a warning pattern of black , yellow and red markings , it will pay the others to follow suit because they will then all share the ‘ training risks ’ associated with novice predators . |
| 18 | And one of them has had a day off . |
| 19 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 20 | All of them have got a part to play , because we believe there are erm it 's a national problem , but the solutions are in each community different and we need the community to look at a situation and see what can be done on the ground , and I can give many examples of the sort of thing one has in mind . |
| 21 | So some of them have got both sides , some of them have got a mixture . |
| 22 | ‘ Several of them have got a stethoscope . |
| 23 | The more militant among them have formed a bakers ' commando and have blown up several stores belonging to their ‘ industrial ’ enemies . |