Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a challenge ; not for nothing had Mrs Lorimer been a formidable ARP warden in the war , and later a JP . |
| 2 | But not for nothing had Max Klein spent the best years of his youth and early manhood at country fairs and markets learning to give as good as he got . |
| 3 | The SOLVD prevention study included 4220 patients , nearly 80% of whom had history of myocardial infarction , with ejection fractions equal to or less than 35% . |
| 4 | In early August more than 61,000 South Korean citizens , many of whom had relatives in North Korea , applied for permission to make an unprecedented visit to the North . |
| 5 | Seven day SeHCAT retention was abnormal in eight ( 38% ) of 21 cystic fibrosis patients only one of whom had liver disease . |
| 6 | Most of Noverre 's ballets dealt with heroes and heroines from Greek , Roman and other epic sources , all of whom had characteristics in common , as do so many modern heroes and heroines . |
| 7 | Some years earlier , Ray Galton and Alan Simpson ( the writers for comic artist Tony Hancock ) and Goon comedian Spike Milligan had established Associated London Scripts ( A.L.S. ) , an institution described by June Barry as ‘ a hot bed of writers , many of whom had offices in the house which they rented out to use whenever they wanted to get away from home or from the studios . ’ |
| 8 | Every niche of the craggy cliff held a nest , every hollow of the turfy ledge just below me had eggs or young gulls nestling there . |
| 9 | Of the four bedrooms , two had beds in them and only one of them had bed-clothes on it . |
| 10 | All of them had keys . |
| 11 | All of them had degree level competence in both their languages , and had relevant experience in the field and had teaching potential . |
| 12 | After a year of experiment she and Mike had agreed that where both of them had meetings on the same night , Mike would try and arrange his at home : he could listen and take part in a discussion with a two-year-old on his lap . |
| 13 | The only difference was that one of them had hope . |
| 14 | Few , if any , of them had sons or relatives who took any part in it . |
| 15 | Some of them had patterns on . ’ |
| 16 | The two-sided station continued to be built throughout the 1870s , particularly in Italy , and Central Europe , though many of them had pseudo-heads , blocks built across the end to link the wings where the main entrances were . |
| 17 | By the Cretaceous , insect damage is very pronounced as in the example of hundreds of cycad cones that have been examined : 22.2% of them had damage especially noticeable in those with mature pollen-bearing organs . |
| 18 | It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished . |
| 19 | Some of them had chains round their boats , fore and aft , to hold them together , do they d ha sunk ; busted right open from the swelling of the wood with too much water . |
| 20 | ‘ Neither publisher had film rights in their titles ; both had television rights ; Heinemann had merchandising rights , which are important in children 's titles , whereas Hutchinson did n't ; and it was a moot point whether either of them had video or audio cassette rights , since the original book was published in 1979 , and the form of the publishing agreement had not been changed to take account of the new technology . ’ |
| 21 | It was known that many of them had sympathy with Mosley and his verminous bunch . |
| 22 | Some of them had faces : red-raw and wrinkled , with tiny eyes and pursed lips . |
| 23 | The charges , heard at Leominster , follow eight visits by the RSPCA last winter to two farms , at Lentwardine and Eardisland in Herefordshire , where inspectors and vets found horses so neglected one of them had hooves 10 inches long . |
| 24 | It is clear that the greatest of them had beliefs about their relationship to and responsibility for their subjects different from those of their seventeenth or early eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 25 | Although both were linked to the PKI , there is no evidence that either of them had knowledge of the events leading to the coup . |
| 26 | In that too , they were alike : both of them had thoughts and feelings that few people gave them credit for or even suspected . |
| 27 | The eggs were not pure poetry though , and many of them had lines and streaks of yellow duck shit across their smooth surfaces . |
| 28 | No of course one or two of them had slaughter houses at the back of them you know . |
| 29 | If they had any ideas about bursting into tune they had to abandon them temporarily because I do n't think any of them had breath to blow . |
| 30 | All of them had tusks . |