Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Although these sentences differ in sense , it is quite possible for them to have the same reference , and the same truth value . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | It 's a big honour for the choir , who between them have a combined age of 2,500 years . |
| 9 | The crew are coached by vice-captain David Storrs and Derek Gordon who between them have an immense depth of experience at the highest level . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But I mean the B and B's alright and er they 've paid for me to have an ensuite room and a quite reasonable breakfast so |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ He hates to think of me having a good time , ’ said Camille . |
| 14 | Their members were more specialized : a growing proportion of them had no medical background . |
| 15 | At first some of them had a deceptive brightness , but their abominable quality soon revealed itself and decay rapidly set in . |
| 16 | None of them had a coherent programme , or strategy designed to bring the mass movement into power . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | One of them had an intestinal perforation and required surgery . |
| 19 | ‘ The Espoirs went to Zimbabwe this summer , and I understand that several of them had an outstanding tour . |
| 20 | ‘ Everybody knows the two of them had an almighty row that evening , ’ she went on . |
| 21 | Only about a third of them has to be what you 'd really call meat , and quite a lot of them had an enormous amount of fat in them . |
| 22 | They were all aspiring entrepreneurs , but so few of them had an original idea . |
| 23 | The debate on these issues continued for several centuries and the proposed solutions were very varied , but all of them had the ultimate implication that only the civilized Christian Europeans deserved to be rated as true men in a fully human sense ; all other " men " being variously rated as sub-human animals , monsters , degenerate men , damned souls , or the product of a separate creation . |
| 24 | They did not pray two rak'ahs before making love , or perform wudu after intercourse ( perhaps because neither of them had the faintest idea what wudu might be ) , and they were woefully deficient in the sacrifice and dowry departments . |
| 25 | Two hundred and fifty came from Strathnaver and 104 of them had the same surname : William Mackay . |
| 26 | But that night , all four of them had the same dream … |
| 27 | ‘ Every single one of them had the same opinion as mine , ’ he said . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | None of them has a sore throat . |