Example sentences of "of [pers pn] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He hates to think of me having a good time , ’ said Camille .
2 At first some of them had a deceptive brightness , but their abominable quality soon revealed itself and decay rapidly set in .
3 None of them had a coherent programme , or strategy designed to bring the mass movement into power .
4 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 .
5 One of them had an intestinal perforation and required surgery .
6 ‘ The Espoirs went to Zimbabwe this summer , and I understand that several of them had an outstanding tour .
7 ‘ Everybody knows the two of them had an almighty row that evening , ’ she went on .
8 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 .
9 They were all aspiring entrepreneurs , but so few of them had an original idea .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 None of them has a sore throat .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Each of them has a large leather money bag .
17 One of them has a fake beard .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 The hamper would be a present for the three of them and she 'd be thinking of them having a jolly evening .
22 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 .
23 Many of them have a wider spread of activities than we do , making things like glass containers , aluminium cans or paper and board products .
24 Visitors are catered for by hotels , guest houses and a large caravan park and many of them have a regular clientele .
25 Several of them have a vague impression of a coin-like disc near the base .
26 Yet ( while there are more lifers than there used to be ) most of them have a great deal to lose .
27 However most of them have a strong sense that in this celebration of the Church , Christ himself is present and feeds with Word and Sacrament those who come to him through faith .
28 It is important that United Kingdom companies keep themselves informed of developments in these proposals , as many of them have a real effect on the day-to-day functioning of a UK company and its cost structure .
29 Yes , these are for the in-service B Ed. and various other courses like that , yes , and some of them have a scientific aspect to them and we 're involved in those as well .
30 ‘ Well , some of them have an economic value .
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