Example sentences of "have [prep] their " in BNC.

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1 After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us .
2 When one person has in their mind the whole range of the project from initial conception through data analysis and system design to sitting at the computer and typing the program lines into the computer , it 's not only more efficient : the person is creating in freedom like an artist and is involved in the act of creation at a deeper level and as a result enjoys the whole thing .
3 Many owners do not realize what effect their own behaviour has on their dog .
4 What differentiates true experiments from non-experimental enquiries is the attempt , either in the laboratory or field , to produce an effect among groups which have been randomly formed ; in the simplest experiment , the researcher deliberately alters the X values of an experimental group , and sees what effect this has on their Y values by comparing them with a control group .
5 Garfinkel 's interest is not in whether they are right or wrong in perceiving it in this way , but rather in how they come to perceive it in this way , and what effect this perception has on their actions .
6 Although these managers are not expected to take any responsibility for it , this does mean that notification of a failure in a module is passed through the LIFESPAN system , and individual managers can decide what impact the reported failure has on their modules and packages .
7 Although these managers are not expected to take any responsibility for it , this does mean that notification of a failure in a module is passed through the LIFESPAN system , and individual managers can decide what impact the reported failure has on their modules and packages .
8 How men in high place , and authority Are in their lives and estimation wrong 'd By their subordinate Ministers ? yet such They can not but imploy ( iv .
9 Although these biases can not be refuted , in reality the staff completing the schedules tended to be those dealing with residents on a day to day basis , rather than home owners and managers , who might have been more concerned with the implications the results may have had for their establishment .
10 She was also Fenna 's hoard ; and Fenna had kept from her until too late the awful , consuming greed and jealousy that , from before the dawn of time , all dragons have had about their hoards .
11 And whatever views the Exchequer Chamber may have had about their decision , succeeding generations have regarded it as the starting-point of a liability wider than any that preceded it .
12 The same problem arose with patients who reproduced , unconsciously , early painful relationships they had had with their parents in their relationship with their analysts .
13 Some children are tempted then to recreate the very close relationships they have had within their families . ’
14 Angela had always preferred old oak and mellow English fruitwoods to mahogany , and was attracted to country furniture because it was the sort of simple , practical furniture that ordinary people would have had in their farmhouses or cottages .
15 They had twice had in their possession the girl they were sent to recapture and once had the boy .
16 Similarly the specialists , the training officers , task designers and safety officers will have their own version structured in terms of the particular difficulties they have had in their specific contributions to the task performance .
17 To his astonishment , Johnson yelled angrily at him and there broke out the most serious row the pair is reported ever to have had in their long association .
18 Evidence is being sought in surviving buildings , in records such as photographs , drawings , and documents , and especially in the goods that people have had in their houses .
19 They are claiming more than £100,000 compensaion for what they allege was the ‘ catastrophic ’ effect the contamination has had on their lives .
20 The band probably exaggerate the effect a Cossack-flavoured version of ‘ Those Were The Days ’ would have had on their career .
21 By now my interlocutors , who are apt to be young and sensitive souls , much perturbed by the effect that German-led interest rates have already had on their standard of living , tend to be looking a bit peaky and green about the gills .
22 These aimed to elicit individual views about fundholding and details of the impact that it had had on their roles .
23 The questions will explore : claimants ' work history and perceptions of their job prospects ; their experience of claiming benefits and the effect it has had on their search for paid employment : their awareness of dependency on the state on their own part and among other claimers : and their general ideas about the role of claimant .
24 It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips .
25 From sample surveys of some ten villages in different regions of China and at different levels of income this project will map out differences in the scope and ranges of resources which rural householders in China have had at their disposal in the last few years .
26 Anonymity is not used to neutralize the moral responsibility respondents would otherwise have for their actions and opinions , but is our attempt to keep faith with the trust we earned .
27 Or they could be afraid of the implications girls ' work might have for their own work .
28 Throughout , the legislators concerned will be subject to a great deal of explicit lobbying , and will be aware of the political debts they are expected to settle through the budget , as well as the importance that their decisions may have for their own political futures .
29 Compound nouns in which the second element denotes an agent or an action may have for their first element a noun denoting the object of the action : housekeeper , housekeeping .
30 What motives did people have for their actions ?
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