Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My activities had no goal and no aspiration , and I had no competitors , which meant that I rapidly acquired the confidence of the leadership of the Labour Party . |
| 2 | Who were extremely keen to locate in this county , everything was right for them , Mr Allenby 's borough had the site , my clients had the site should I say , and erm but we lost it to Humberside because it was not possible for either Harrogate or ourselves to look them in the eye and say yes we can guarantee planning consent . |
| 3 | Despite my soft soles , my steps had an extraordinary echo . |
| 4 | My parents had a point , too . |
| 5 | And then my parents had a big er lean- to built at the side of the house and we had a full size billiard table in there . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was a boy my parents had a bookshop like this in Plymouth . |
| 7 | There must have been dozens of them in our back garden by the time I was seven , though my parents had no idea they were living next to a bird cemetery . |
| 8 | My parents had no jobs , no passports , no country , nothing ! |
| 9 | I remember when one of my girls had an abortion , I was like a maniac for days after . |
| 10 | The only thing that stopped them cutting us to ribbons was that one of my friends had the gift of the gab and gradually defused the situation by talking good sense in a calm reasonable way ; finally he pointed out that we would all end up in the local police cells if anything happened anyway . |
| 11 | And then we were at Frinton , masses of us , and we always used to go to Frinton in the summer because one of my uncles had a house there and we knew the people who erm dad used to play golf and mother used to knit on the beach , you know . |
| 12 | The Defence Ministry on Oct. 3 , 1989 , issued instructions requiring all those exporting military " intelligence " from Israel , including instruction and training , to provide proof that their operations had the approval of the government . |
| 13 | But her copies had a witty twist . |
| 14 | But her copies had a witty twist . |
| 15 | In France before World War I , collective bargaining existed only in mining and printing — both being geographically highly concentrated industries in which employers had an obvious interest in organising , in this case in order to avoid ‘ whipsawing ’ by the union . |
| 16 | Nearly half its projects had a full or partial environmental impact assessment carried out prior to funding . |
| 17 | The cities I had seen in England and France left me unmoved ; their crowds had no interest for me : they lacked the colour and variety for which I craved . |
| 18 | There was even a buccaneering Robin Hood element , in that their programmes had a genuine popular appeal . |
| 19 | The political situation in Germany before 1914 , in which parties had no direct role in the formation of the Imperial Government , which functioned independently of them , meant that the SPD had no reason to think of its activities mainly in parliamentary terms . |
| 20 | The proprietor must have thought that they were lovers because he showed them to the most secluded table in the place , talking all the while in rapid French , which she could n't understand at all , but which Piers had no trouble in comprehending . |
| 21 | Her words had the desired effect . |
| 22 | Strong positive correlations were indeed found between measures of the integration of images into dream plots with the integration of the unrelated slides into dream stories made up while awake , showing that their subjects had a consistent characteristic style of integration while awake and asleep . |
| 23 | Although , as Dave said , their branches had a ‘ youth-club , table-tennis image , rather than a fox-hunting image ’ , there were tensions with other branches . |
| 24 | Her lips had no magic in them and he felt nothing but pity for her . |
| 25 | Her eyes had a greenish tinge and her full mouth was compressed with fury . |
| 26 | Her eyes had a sudden dreamy look . |
| 27 | Her eyes had a lost , drifting look . |
| 28 | Her eyes had no pupils and were a luminous green . |
| 29 | Her brothers had a grand idea , though . |
| 30 | He said anyone in the infected zone was severely restricted on the movement of pigs regardless of whether their animals had the disease . |