Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took over the serving of the tea and cakes and Jenna had the opportunity to study her surreptitiously . |
| 2 | Post offices , railway stations and schools had the new , and the rest the old ; in the cottages there was friction as children and their fathers turned up for meals at different times . |
| 3 | According to Domesday Book , no fewer than sixty-eight manors and estates had the right to receive salt from Droitwich , including Princes Risborough , some seventy miles away in Buckinghamshire . |
| 4 | A few more offhand questions and Nicholas had the full picture of Harry 's London life . |
| 5 | The regiment worked in four-man modules , each man having a special skill ( i.e. explosives or navigation ) , and officers and men had the same training , so that in the event of casualties they could be virtually interchangeable . |
| 6 | The Soviet people could only be made to make sacrifices if Stalin had the threat of capitalism . |
| 7 | Sexology and psychology had proved that men and women had the same instinctive need for pleasure and fulfilment . |
| 8 | He was annoyed , he said , that deer forest managers were given the kid glove treatment while hillwalkers and climbers had the big stick of stiffer sanctions waved at them — such as no-go areas . |
| 9 | Until May 1978 , all married women and widows had the right to rely on their husbands ' contributions and forgo claims to short-term benefits ( sickness , unemployment and maternity ) as well as claims to pensions in their own right . |
| 10 | It was situated in an old house , a three-storey building which the students and others had the run of , more or less . |
| 11 | They argued for birth control primarily on the grounds that it would improve the health of the mother rather than on the grounds that women had the right to control their fertility . |
| 12 | But whatever problems individual proprietors and exhibitors had the industry was there at hand to proffer advice and encouragement . |