Example sentences of "[coord] had their " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this ‘ crime ’ , many of them were fined or had their goods confiscated , and others were imprisoned . |
| 2 | They whiled away the years by maintaining salons in which the gibes against the ruling house were repeated , or had their origins , for even in such aristocratic surroundings wit was often confused with bad taste . |
| 3 | They were shot or had their throats cut , Alija Lujinovoc told a New York newspaper . |
| 4 | A registered elector over the age of twenty-one may be a candidate if not disqualified , but in addition people may stand for election if they have occupied property , been resident or had their main place of work in the area for at least twelve months . |
| 5 | We asked respondents whether they had been stopped ( on foot or in a vehicle ) or had their house searched in the last year , and whether they had been arrested in the last five years ( called here , ‘ stopped , etc . ’ ) |
| 6 | Only 18 to 25 per cent of the survey sample relied on or had their income topped up by the then supplementary benefit . |
| 7 | By November 1984 the Prime Minister reported that 700 bodies had either been wound up or had their expenditure reduced , giving a total saving of 118m per year ( see Hood , 1988 , p. 89 for further elaboration on alleged reductions ) . |
| 8 | Obviously most of them had them marked or had their name on them , so that they would have the same er the same set of tools every day . |
| 9 | Professional development teachers rarely seemed to have been offered an induction programme or had their work regularly reviewed . |
| 10 | Hundreds of prisoners were unconditionally released or had their prison terms reduced after a series of six public pardons issued by Hassan . |
| 11 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
| 12 | The unions complained that thousands of workers had lost their jobs or had their pay cut after their jobs were transferred to the private sector . |
| 13 | The research , commissioned by the Scottish Office , found that few children were tested in their first language or given access to interpreters , or had their bilingual and cultural backgrounds taken into account before they were put in special schools . |
| 14 | These were the parents who had not been questioned , nor had their house been searched on the morning of 27 February . |
| 15 | As we walked around the town I witnessed several incidents as girls who had been known to have collaborated with the German forces were seized by members of the Resistance and had their hair chopped off , to the jeers and cat-calls of those standing around . |
| 16 | They were immediately suspended from APEX and had their strike pay taken away . |
| 17 | Nine of the children came to the show each day and had their own press room in one of the loose boxes on the RASE Children 's Farm . |
| 18 | By the time the masters had recovered from the apres ski and had their lie-in , the boys only managed about two hours ’ skiing a day . ’ |
| 19 | These consisted of 30–60 farmers and had their own management committees and their own Group Organiser to arrange and administer the training of group members . |
| 20 | Christian roadblocks were therefore set up at the eastern end of the Ring motorway and the first 40 Muslim men to arrive at the Christian checkpoint , some of them travelling with their wives and children in their family cars to homes in east Beirut , were taken beneath the overpass and had their throats cut . |
| 21 | Borrow 's family came from St. Cleer and , he claimed , were gentlefolk who had long lived at Tredinnock and had their own coat of arms . |
| 22 | Both were boys of 8 years old and had their imaginations fired by Perry Mason , a fictional TV lawyer who helped the poor . |
| 23 | Many deaf people painted in their leisure time , and had their pictures exhibited , like William Agnew , S. Bright Lucas and James L.C. Docharty . |
| 24 | Their goals switched the spotlight back on the Ipswich title challenge as they moved to within seven points of their rivals and had their odds halved from 50-1 to 25-1 . |
| 25 | There was the room with the twelve iron beds in it , the nice girls , the terrible girls , the time they all got nits in their hair and had their heads shaved . |
| 26 | The pub at which they had finally arrived and had their pints had been serving up bar meals . |
| 27 | The white quivering lights which she so frequently saw probably resembled the white ‘ eels and strings ’ that Ruskin complained of , and had their origin in the psychotic brain . |
| 28 | ‘ James and Catherine were doing well at school and had their whole lives in front of them . |
| 29 | Most of the group members were quite young , Right-On , middle-class , intellectual , and had their own particular obsession which they wanted to see in the paper . |
| 30 | ‘ There has n't been a pop band since Duran Duran and Wham ! who wrote their own material and had their own points of view . ’ |