Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing have the return invitations dwindled a bit over the years . |
| 2 | Not for nothing has the shift remained a timeless classic . |
| 3 | The second remarkable event was Henry 's marriage in May 1152 to another great heiress — not for nothing has the twelfth century been called the " Century of Heiresses " . |
| 4 | Although these sentences differ in sense , it is quite possible for them to have the same reference , and the same truth value . |
| 5 | ‘ The Countess did all she could for me , arranging for me to have the baby away from the Castle , because of gossip in the servants ’ hall , and afterwards she took me back into service . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's very important for me to have the same people around me as I did on the first album … it 's a community thing , it means I can keep the same vibe as I had before , ’ he says . |
| 7 | When I was convalescing after that last virus , my Good Samaritans in Cotherstone arranged for me to have the Meals on Wheels service for several weeks . |
| 8 | However , among the lucky or sheltered it is common enough for someone to have the uneasy feeling that he is living too comfortably , might find himself unprepared to cope if his present security were to collapse , lacks adequate understanding of miseries outside his experience . |
| 9 | himself , the big , distracting man and two women , one of whom had the incisive skill of a surgeon . |
| 10 | There are five people with a pretty clear motive , all of whom had the opportunity . |
| 11 | While Adamski cues his samples and activates his drum programs , we are treated to an enthusiastic , if inaudible , bongo player , and tow backing singers , one of whom has the added advantage of being a fine mover . |
| 12 | While Adamski cues his samples and activates his drum programs , we are treated to an enthusiastic , if inaudible , bongo player , and tow backing singers , one of whom has the added advantage of being a fine mover . |
| 13 | We are coming to an end , let me remind you that er of this particular hundred , sixty three of whom have the use of a car , fifty seven have been involved in an accident , fifty seven and I 'm sure it ca n't be a , er it must be a coincidence say their personalities change behind the driving wheel |
| 14 | All of them had the attraction of fewer chores and a better library — as well as , for him , the genius loci of a childhood home . |
| 15 | ‘ Every single one of them had the same opinion as mine , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Two hundred and fifty came from Strathnaver and 104 of them had the same surname : William Mackay . |
| 17 | But that night , all four of them had the same dream … |
| 18 | In a dig in 1927 the remains of three 17th-century monks , slain by Cromwell , had been found on the site of the high altar ; and one of them had the pewter chalice crushed against his heart . |
| 19 | She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed having on the premises ; most of her other visitors she merely tolerated and a few of them had the power to make her feel violated . |
| 20 | Most of them had the familiar ‘ jizz ’ of guillemots but were too far out for us to tell if they were common guillemots or the Arctic species , Brünnich 's guillemots. ( 'Jizz' is a term coined by experienced birdwatchers to explain how a distant or fleeting glimpse of a bird can produce a positive identification without your being able to say exactly why . ) |
| 21 | One of them had the bagpipes , another a violin and the third a flute . |
| 22 | Three of the staff from Orange wore the silver parachute wings which denoted service in the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes , and all of them had the blue and white campaign ribbons denoting service in Chad or Lebanon . |
| 23 | Only some of them had the initial D beside them ; it was these which Donna was interested in . |
| 24 | One of them had the effrontery to bring a wraith back once . |
| 25 | A Labour Research Department survey of fifty-two large UK companies in 1988 found that in only twelve of them had the percentage pay increases awarded to the lowest paid workers exceeded those awarded to the highest paid director . |
| 26 | One of them had the carcasses of wolves and grypesh , leathery and stinking , littering its yard . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Each of them had the chance to take the controls and fly the glider 8010 — just for a while , before the pilot brought the plane gently back to earth . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | And none of them had the arranged marriages which were normal just one generation earlier . |