Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] have a [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 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | It 's a big honour for the choir , who between them have a combined age of 2,500 years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ He hates to think of me having a good time , ’ said Camille . |
| 13 | At first some of them had a deceptive brightness , but their abominable quality soon revealed itself and decay rapidly set in . |
| 14 | None of them had a coherent programme , or strategy designed to bring the mass movement into power . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One of them had an intestinal perforation and required surgery . |
| 17 | ‘ The Espoirs went to Zimbabwe this summer , and I understand that several of them had an outstanding tour . |
| 18 | ‘ Everybody knows the two of them had an almighty row that evening , ’ she went on . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They were all aspiring entrepreneurs , but so few of them had an original idea . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | None of them has a sore throat . |
| 24 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 25 | Could you introduce er the people , your team , particularly as I think one of them has a different name to the label in front of them . |
| 26 | One of them has a handle-bar moustache ; another wooden deity , dredged not long ago from Lake Geneva , has a formless face , like those that melt and distort in Francis Bacon 's paintings . |
| 27 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 28 | One of them has a fake beard . |
| 29 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 30 | As an extra incentive to put money on the gas giants as havens of life we can note that each of them has an atmospheric layer where there is plenty of warm but polluted water . |