Example sentences of "of [pron] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had considered what he would say long and hard , he had had discussions with a wide variety of architects , planners and journalists , eighteen of whom had attended a meeting at Highgrove in September . |
| 2 | Inevitably , men pushed together for long periods of time became edgy and , by the time the prison was freed from the grip of the snow , three men had been knifed ( one of whom had lost a kidney ) and another had been beaten severely with a pool cue . |
| 3 | Scottish ancestors , one of whom had married a Cree , ( who was , of course , never mentioned by any member of the family ) , had given her a physical and mental toughness which enabled her to fight methodically for anything she wanted badly . |
| 4 | At first the explosions were thought to have been caused by a gas leak , but gradually the police were able to piece together evidence linking the disaster to the Weathermen , one of whom had attached a wire to the wrong terminal . |
| 5 | At the end of the Civil War , Mexico had taken in thousands of Republican exiles , some of whom had had a hand in the drafting of the proposal . |
| 6 | One hundred and seven patients , 102 ( 95% ) of whom had had a vagotomy or partial gastrectomy ( Table I ) , were referred because of suspected rapid gastric emptying as a cause or feature of dumping syndrome and diarrhoea , or both ( Table I ) . |
| 7 | On Oct. 24 a group of deputies from the House of Representatives , trade union leaders and human rights activists petitioned King Hussein to release Shbeilat and Qarrash , both of whom had started a hunger strike in mid-October . |
| 8 | Helped by Tempy and Gertie , neither of whom had experienced a birth before , Tamar had been delivered of a boy , quickly and with no trouble . |
| 9 | The eleven participating artists , each of whom has contributed a screenprint , are drawn from the ranks of the city 's exciting younger generation and include Angela Bulloch , Damien Hirst , Langlands & Bell , Michael Landy , Marc Quinn and Rachel Whiteread . |
| 10 | ‘ Simply red ’ , on the other hand , is a collective exhibition , being staged by Gilbert Brownstone & C. Thirteen artists are taking part , including John Armieder , Marcia Hafif , François Perrodin , Imi Knoebel and Bernard Aubertin , all of whom have contributed a work based on red . |
| 11 | Indeed most of them had made a kind of negative progress . |
| 12 | On Sunday all of them had attended a cousin 's wedding . |
| 13 | Indeed , if any one of them had killed a cat , even in these special circumstances , he would have been put to death for it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The men used matches to see around , one of them had lit a straw bail to get more light . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Neither of them had spoken a word since leaving London . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But the two of them had had a falling-out on the night of the capitalization party . |
| 20 | Getting no satisfaction from that quarter a few of them had taken a problem to a union meeting . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ One of them 's got a stethoscope , ’ she said . |
| 23 | And one of them 's got a brother in the IRA . |
| 24 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And one of them has had a day off . |
| 27 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So some of them have got both sides , some of them have got a mixture . |
| 30 | ‘ Several of them have got a stethoscope . |