Example sentences of "of [pers pn] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He hates to think of me having a good time , ’ said Camille . |
| 2 | Their members were more specialized : a growing proportion of them had no medical background . |
| 3 | At first some of them had a deceptive brightness , but their abominable quality soon revealed itself and decay rapidly set in . |
| 4 | None of them had a coherent programme , or strategy designed to bring the mass movement into power . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One of them had an intestinal perforation and required surgery . |
| 7 | ‘ The Espoirs went to Zimbabwe this summer , and I understand that several of them had an outstanding tour . |
| 8 | ‘ Everybody knows the two of them had an almighty row that evening , ’ she went on . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They were all aspiring entrepreneurs , but so few of them had an original idea . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Two hundred and fifty came from Strathnaver and 104 of them had the same surname : William Mackay . |
| 14 | But that night , all four of them had the same dream … |
| 15 | ‘ Every single one of them had the same opinion as mine , ’ he said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | None of them has a sore throat . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Each of them has a large leather money bag . |
| 23 | One of them has a fake beard . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And none of them has the right kind of tights . |
| 27 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 28 | The hamper would be a present for the three of them and she 'd be thinking of them having a jolly evening . |
| 29 | In fact , gardens that are long and narrow are among the more simple to design because they can be broken down very easily into separate garden areas or ‘ rooms ’ , each of them having a different function or theme . |
| 30 | Many of them have a wider spread of activities than we do , making things like glass containers , aluminium cans or paper and board products . |