Example sentences of "[conj] have their [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will wince at the idea of paying for their children 's school books or having their gallstones removed , but think nothing of spending half a year 's income on a car . |
| 2 | BAINBRIDGE is a handsome little village on the Hawes-Leyburn road with a broad village green , complete with village stocks , where miscreants of olden days , instead of being fined or having their licences endorsed , were pelted with rotten garbage and sometimes even worse . |
| 3 | For this ‘ crime ’ , many of them were fined or had their goods confiscated , and others were imprisoned . |
| 4 | They were shot or had their throats cut , Alija Lujinovoc told a New York newspaper . |
| 5 | There are fewer who read Czech poetry , or have their paintings exhibited regularly in London and Edinburgh . |
| 6 | German supermarkets have resisted the idea of the PVC eating robot , as they would much rather customers took discarded packaging home with them rather than have their premises swarming with robots . |
| 7 | When the organization is small , the people-orientation strong and the change-orientation marked , then a climate exists which allows all members of the organization to speak and have their ideas considered as a matter of course . |
| 8 | Modern scholars , conscious of the large issues involved in this struggle , have generally found this intrusion of the local and material interests of the church of Canterbury at a critical moment incomprehensible , and having their eyes fixed on the historically more important matters of investiture and homage , they have supposed that Anselm 's eyes must also have been similarly directed . |
| 9 | It is true that in peacetime a large proportion of these ships were normally laid up and had their crews paid off : only when war was imminent or had broken out were they brought back into service . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Both were boys of 8 years old and had their imaginations fired by Perry Mason , a fictional TV lawyer who helped the poor . |
| 12 | Well the money that we raised from there and also from another one was about three thousand nearly four thousand three thousand something and we presented er Tommy Cooper with the cheque on the Prince , the stage of the Prince of Wales Theatre , but that cheque was to buy a special ambulance for the children of Upshire , which is the home of the disabled and this special coach had erm places where you could wheel the children into the coach in their chairs with the clamps and those children that could be taken out of their chairs and put on seats put and had their belts put around them and that was the only way that these children were able to get out ! |
| 13 | The pub at which they had finally arrived and had their pints had been serving up bar meals . |
| 14 | Araja took Italian opera to Russia in 1736 and Italians almost completely monopolized the imperial opera for nearly half a century while promising Russian musicians , such as Bortnyansky and Berezovsky , were sent to Italy to be trained — and had their operas produced there . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Many deaf people painted in their leisure time , and had their pictures exhibited , like William Agnew , S. Bright Lucas and James L.C. Docharty . |
| 17 | Dressed in black , undergraduates say they 've been gagged and had their hands tied in their attempts to persuade the governing body to maintain Somerville as a single sex college . |
| 18 | Dressed in black , undergraduates say they 've been gagged and had their hands tied in their attempts to persuade the governing body to maintain Somerville as a single sex college . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Several unions were held to be in contempt , were fined and had their assets sequestrated . |
| 21 | They had recently been on separate holidays , met support workers ' families at their homes , danced at a party and had their photographs taken cuddling the few weeks ' old daughter of a woman Elizabeth met at church . |
| 22 | and if these people , who are just like you , write in and have their letters printed here , why ca n't you write in and receive the same treatment ? |
| 23 | The rumour was that they were to give up the siege and have their contracts revoked before Christmas . |
| 24 | This is where all bad accidents come first and have their clothes removed and first transfusions . |
| 25 | All candidates are required to be members of UNIP and have their candidatures endorsed by the party 's central committee . |
| 26 | So I 'd like two volunteers later on to come and have their faces cleansed , toned , and moisturized . |
| 27 | It was during dinner that Lydia had begun to think of Betty as her ‘ companion ’ — as the compilers of restaurant guides describe the nameless individuals who share their good fortune and have their meals paid for . |
| 28 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 29 | The mirror can be silver , bronze tinted or smoke tinted , and the panels can be cut to six , and have their edges finished in a number of different ways . |
| 30 | Discussions are currently taking place with NCVQ to identify mechanisms which will ensure that holds of SVQs and NVQs can move freely within the UK and have their qualifications recognised without difficulty . |