Example sentences of "who have the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popular culture gives us plenty of female verbal incontinence ( cf the Andy Capp joke : ‘ when two wives get together , who has the last word ? ’ ) and illogical women who ca n't keep to the point ( as a character in the soap opera Coronation Street comments , ‘ you might as well try to knit fog as follow what 's in a woman 's mind ’ ) . |
| 2 | Carolyn Pride , now Carolyn Bartholomew , who had the next bed in Diana 's dormitory and later shared her London flat , remembers her as a ‘ strong character , buoyant and noisy . ’ |
| 3 | For those ‘ Old Fighters ’ who had been enthusiastic Hitler supporters even before the demise of the Weimar Republic , for the direct beneficiaries of Nazism — the careerists , power-seekers , and apparatchiks who had the Third Reich to thank for their offices and careers in Party and State , and for the ideologically committed who had ‘ burnt their boats ’ with the Nazi regime , the belief in the Führer 's powers to bring about a miracle and achieve final victory in the face of all the odds was the blind faith rooted in self-interest and fear of the future . |
| 4 | Well , who was it who had the last laugh now ? |
| 5 | Then suddenly , and sweetly , she began to realise that , since Travis was no more to her than a good friend , and she was still going to have her job at the end of all this , when it finally did end , it was going to be she who had the last laugh — and not N. Massingham Esquire . |
| 6 | Whitton pulled ahead five minutes later when he cantered through a demoralised defence to shoot home unopposed , but it was Shakespeare ( who else ? ) who had the last word , breaking the strikers ’ monopoly with the eighth goal , 10 minutes from the end . |
| 7 | Who had the last question ? |
| 8 | Who had the last question ? |