Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] had [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham .
2 He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up .
3 They marched at a tremendous rate in all sorts of uniforms — one of them had amazing cherry-red trousers — and all their clothing was marked with big red patches .
4 Neither of them had much appetite but they finished the wine .
5 They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent .
6 Most of them had cartilaginous vertebrae , like modern toads .
7 And all of them had one thing in mind .
8 Many of them had blue lights on top .
9 Three of them had serious face and hand burns and were transferred to the burns unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary .
10 All of them had well-developed lateral fins , usually in two pairs , the pectorals just behind the throat , and the pelvics near the anus .
11 And all of them had various music jobs before meeting up .
12 There was , however , one issue on which both of them had similar views : President Sadat 's peace-seeking journey to Jerusalem in November 1977 and its sequel at Camp David the following year .
13 Most of them had similar extensions .
14 Some of them had crucial help from the Israeli secret service , Mossad ) Those army commanders who did not immediately his were not so lucky .
15 Neither of them had pure academic interests .
16 Twenty-five trunk lines went into Chicago and most of them had attendant freight and passenger depots .
17 The Hollywood Ten could not write movies again , except under pseudonyms ( some of them had four ) .
18 The family drew together to help each other , and most of them had additional sources of comfort .
19 Too many of them had clear memories of the last war to relish another .
20 The reason for the hypergastrinaemia in the four idiopathic DU patients is also unclear and it is of note that only one of them had antral gastritis .
21 Prof Van Velzen 's team found earlier this year that of 34 victims of unexplained cot death , 70pc of them had underdeveloped kidneys .
22 Many of them had educational or philanthropic aims .
23 Bradshaw , Foo , Doerner , Cooke : each of them had some claim to supremacy .
24 Jessie wanted to catch all the some of them had big beds and some of them had little beds , Jessie , you 're not listening eh ?
25 Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money .
26 By contrast , when adults were accompanying children , during a similar three-minute period , less than half of them had any communication at all with their children ; and in two-fifths of the pairs ‘ what took place was negative ’ .
27 Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes .
28 Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her .
29 The press may have labelled them all Brats , but not all of them had any great desire to raise hell and make headlines .
30 Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience .
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