Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] have the " in BNC.

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1 Although these sentences differ in sense , it is quite possible for them to have the same reference , and the same truth value .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 ‘ Every single one of them had the same opinion as mine , ’ he said .
7 Two hundred and fifty came from Strathnaver and 104 of them had the same surname : William Mackay .
8 But that night , all four of them had the same dream …
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 . )
12 One of them had the bagpipes , another a violin and the third a flute .
13 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 .
14 Only some of them had the initial D beside them ; it was these which Donna was interested in .
15 One of them had the effrontery to bring a wraith back once .
16 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 .
17 One of them had the carcasses of wolves and grypesh , leathery and stinking , littering its yard .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 And none of them had the arranged marriages which were normal just one generation earlier .
22 Each of them has the power to decide immediately to stop purchasing tuna caught by fishing on dolphins .
23 And none of them has the right kind of tights .
24 But I have a theory that if you have two musicians , both trained and able to play anything that is put before them , but only one of them has the ability to play by ear as well , then he or she will be able to project more life , beauty and expression than the other .
25 You feel quite confident in interviewing both of them , but as it turns out only one of them has the imagination to emphasise with your ideas and within three weeks he is in situ .
26 I could n't imagine any of them having the nerve to stand up to Filmer and demand their money .
27 The proof that the planets were actually formed in this way arises from the fact that all of them have the same built-in mode of spin .
28 What 's funny about it is , they actually do like each other ; they just do n't realise that both of them have the same views in everything .
29 ‘ When will any of them have the courage to say : ‘ Enough .
30 On the western side , the impressive remains of the much later temple of Zeus Thanatos stand on foundation courses of large blocks of stone which look like Minoan masonry : certainly many of them have the distinctive Minoan ‘ mason 's marks ’ , the branch , the star and the trident , which supports this view .
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