Example sentences of "have their [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although quite a few had subsequently been dismissed , both Braithwaite and Colclough having had their spies in the Chartist ranks , men who had sung those Chartist hymns about freedom and justice the loudest as they had been memorizing names and faces to sell afterwards to Uriah and Ben . |
| 2 | But my feeling is that someone has had their hands in the till . |
| 3 | Another wicket now and Pakistan would have had their thumbs on the jugular . |
| 4 | Given that they will have their hands on the purse strings , postgraduate deans will be able to insist on substantial improvements in the educational content of senior house officer posts . |
| 5 | Basically , it was a late surviving example of 19th century employers ' attitudes towards their staff : checking up on them all the time or they 'd have their hands in the till , It was straight out of H.G. Wells ' Mr Kipps . |
| 6 | ‘ Echoing ’ and ‘ complementing ’ may have their places in the unceasing babble , but the babble would not be a babble if dialogue were based purely on repetition and agreement . |
| 7 | While they can have their uses in the very short term or as a stop-gap measure , in reality they would be needed in very large numbers in any tank containing large cichlids . |
| 8 | We can not have their children in the hands of those unqualified to look after them . |
| 9 | Led Zeppelin did n't , and New Order do n't have their names on the front of their records . |
| 10 | They can not have their names on the electoral roll and , as a result , can not vote . |
| 11 | for example , should not have their links with the outside world severed by traffic flows past their doors . |
| 12 | Spreadsheet vendors ca n't be accused of not having their fingers on the pulse of their market . |
| 13 | Some half-dozen of the girls were having their elevenses in the sunshine in between lessons , and drinking their coffee with a great deal of laughter and chattering . |
| 14 | Having their roots in the sense of crisis which pervaded Europe in the 1930s , Rougemont 's theories have been described as ‘ anti-parliamentary , anti-capitalist , anti-individualist , anti-liberal , anti-materialist ’ . |
| 15 | Not the splashers on of paint and not the witty designers of operatic sets , not those who claim to have their fingers on the pulse of things and not those who shut themselves up and ignore the world . |
| 16 | It 's left to Nicky Henson ( who also does a mean pirate impersonation ) and Mark Tandy to have their moments as the unlucky actors attempting to portray the fictional brothers in the stage play . |
| 17 | Is it right that the Secretary of State should hide behind English Tory Members of Parliament who consistently and always seem to have their names at the front of the Order Paper when there are Welsh questions , thus denying Welsh Members the right to put their point of view on behalf of their constituents ? |
| 18 | I should like to reiterate those comments to you now as I believe they remain relevant : 1 ) Control the duration of play by an ice hockey-type clock to prevent time-wasting. 2 ) Players to have their names on the back of their shirts . |
| 19 | If the sound balance on this Archiv recording can seem at times a little unyielding , it is amply repayed by a freshness and dramatic spontaneity from a team of soloists who only have to have their names on the cover for us to be assured of the recording 's qualities . |
| 20 | ‘ But Jefferson and Williams have had no opportunity to have their hands in the Cathedral till . |
| 21 | Twenty years earlier , he could not have seen it in quite the way he does , for even in Repton 's modem living room ( Fig. 7b ) the structural features of a room , together with the figures of its occupants , still dominate the furnishings ; these are sparse , and still tend to have their backs against the wall . |
| 22 | The pterosaurs , flying reptiles , also had their origins in the Triassic and became widespread and varied during the Jurassic and Cretaceous . |
| 23 | These perceptions were encouraged by policies which assumed that problems of urban deprivation had their origins in the characteristics of local populations and that these could be resolved simply by better co-ordination of the social services and encouragement of citizen involvement and community self-help . |
| 24 | The exhibition comprised posters tracing the development of the alkali industry and the companies Corning Glass , Courtaulds Coatings , Rohm and Haas and Sterling Winthrop , together with memorabilia from the companies , which all had their origins in the north-east . |
| 25 | Hill was the third generation of a family of prominent educationalists and social reformers , who had their origins in the radical Unitarian culture of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Birmingham . |
| 26 | The affiliated Hanbury bank in London merged in 1864 with another London bank of Quaker origins , Barnett , Hoare & Co. ; the new Barnetts , Hoares , Hanburys & Lloyd merged in turn with the main Lloyd bank of Birmingham in 1884 , bringing under one corporate roof connections that had their origins in the marriages more than a century before of the children of Sampson Lloyd II . |
| 27 | Both it and the camera , the financial department , had their origins in the " sacred Lateran palace " ( sacrum palatium Lateranense ) , the palace of a monarch . |
| 28 | Even more common was the language of religious rivalry , with the Tories being styled the High Church or episcopalian party , and the Whigs Presbyterians or fanatics — rivalries which , as protagonists on both sides were quick to point out , had their origins in the religious upheavals of the 1640s and 1650s . |
| 29 | The inspector drew attention to the absence of dayrooms for the ambulant chronic sick , who sat around and had their meals in the wards , where ‘ there were very few wooden armchairs ’ . |
| 30 | but erm they erm , they had their meals in the canteen which was one of the committee rooms adapted for that purpose and erm , I think erm , the youngs younger people used to quite enjoy it really I mean they used t ha |