Example sentences of "[noun] had one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The division of the county into electoral districts of equal size within which each ratepayer had one vote — voting to be by ballot ; |
| 2 | Eb and Florrie Judge had one son , Thomas , and when Tom was sixteen he discovered that Saul had some hold over his father . |
| 3 | As the president 's weekend guest he discovered that Ike had one thing in common with Stalin — they both expected him to watch Westerns . |
| 4 | A stage intermediate between these two ideas was reflected in the Companies Clauses Act 1845 which provided that in the absence of contrary provision in the special statute every shareholder had one vote for every share up to ten , one for every additional five up to a hundred and one for every ten thereafter , thus weighting the voting in favour of the smaller holders . |
| 5 | The two Frenchmen had one thing in common . |
| 6 | Yeah , the , of course , er , Freud had one advantage here , and that was Bullitt . |
| 7 | When it came to football Bert had one thing on his mind , pigeons . |
| 8 | Nevertheless in 1987 Dublin North-East had one TD for every 12,712 electors and Dublin South-Central one for every 17,071 . |
| 9 | Wales and Denmark had one victory apiece in a two-match series of one-day internationals recently . |
| 10 | No but , what the bloke had one half and you had to have the other half . |
| 11 | Ecuador had 97 dead and 3,861 infected ; Colombia had two dead and 134 infected , and Chile had one person reported dead and 15 people infected . |
| 12 | The plan had one drawback : the advancing Germans would violate Belgian and Dutch neutrality , guaranteed by Great Britain , Austria , France , Germany and Russia , thus bringing Great Britain into the war on the Allied side . |
| 13 | Each child had one pair of all-purpose shoes but often there was little more than the uppers remaining . |
| 14 | Spain had one man sent off just before I got in . |
| 15 | The job had one stipulation — the wooden floor had to be scrubbed completely once a week . |
| 16 | Donald had one hand in the boy 's hair , and he was whipping the boy with a leather belt . |
| 17 | Werewolf had one foot on the dashboard and was sorting through Tel 's selection of tapes , grunting disapproval at most of the titles . |
| 18 | Winners selected in the draw had one chance , and one only , to net a basket from the half court line during a Lakers match . |
| 19 | But , overshadowing all purely technical considerations , the Phillips curve had one attraction which made it even more irresistible : its subject matter was ‘ important ’ . |
| 20 | In Chester one shop had one copy left and would save it for me if I could get there that afternoon . |
| 21 | Nyasha had one place where she was very very happy though . |
| 22 | Salomons had one son , who was drowned on active service in the Dardanelles in 1915 , and four daughters . |
| 23 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
| 24 | ‘ Ummmm … there was a split in the fact that one person had one record label and the other person had another , and he also had KLF as well . |
| 25 | Herbert and his wife had one son and three daughters , the youngest of whom , Laura , was the wife of Evelyn Waugh [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | Bristol , Edinburgh , Leeds and Liverpool had one morning and two evenings ; eleven towns had one of each , and Leicester had no morning but two evenings . |
| 27 | In determining the level of planned capacity five years ahead , separate estimates had been made by the BEA commercial department ( taking into account national economic trends ) , the engineers ( using simple arithmetical extrapolation of past growth ) , and the Area Boards ( using their local knowledge ) , Their forecasts had one thing in common : they all under-estimated the growth ( the commercial department 's forecasts being least , and the Area Boards ' most , accurate ) . |
| 28 | Daisy had one baby and then another , and Fred and Arthur did a television series together directly after the first child was born , but a reserve had come between them and their companionship was n't quite the same . |
| 29 | The other woman had one hand on her throat and she was squeezing brutally . |
| 30 | Almost invariably , barns had one threshing floor , with bays for housing the crops opening off it ( Fig 37 and Plate 1 ) . |