Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] had [pn reflx] " in BNC.

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1 ( The Iraqis had themselves declared on Sept. 24 that Bush was to be put on trial in mid-October for war crimes against Palestinians through US co-operation with the " Zionist entity " and for killings in Panama and Grenada . )
2 Subsection ( 2 ) is clearly an exception to the nemo dat principle , since the buyers were able to confer upon the sub-purchaser a title better than that which the buyers had themselves , namely , a title free from the sellers ’ lien and which therefore gave to the sub-purchaser the right to immediate possession .
3 They met up and talked with the carpenters ' committee , who would have lent £3,000 out of their fund of £20,000 had they not been astonished to learn that the knitters had themselves no permanent fund " to answer any demand at any time " .
4 But because this ruled out all danger or adventure , Eternity became destructive to the spirit , and the bureaucrats had themselves to be destroyed .
5 respecting the provisions of the Legislature on this point and the manner in which these provisions have been eluded , as well as to point out the pecuniary advantages [ the system of bounties which the abolitionists had themselves promoted ] which would accrue to them from a vigorous enforcement of the Abolition Laws .
6 Spokeswoman Mrs Margaret Fick , one of 70 Second World War veterans who took part in the march , said the pensioners had themselves launched into ‘ Trojan ’ fundraising efforts .
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