Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Lawyers for the haemophiliacs , 600 of whom have issued writs , argue that the Government was negligent in not becoming self-sufficient in blood products sooner and in not heat-treating earlier to kill the virus .
32 I was just thinking it was very mean of me to have ordered sea-horse-on-toast for my tea …
33 ‘ It was n't just a case of me having to lay vocals down while I was over there .
34 With psychologists , most of them 've done English and and history or some , they 've done essay type questions that 're geared to answering questions .
35 He had had three treasurers of England already , good men every one , and two treasurers of his own household , and none of them had made ends meet yet .
36 Most of them had become marraines to one or more soldiers , according them benefits ranging merely from encouraging letters to parcels of food and woollies to the highest a woman can offer a man .
37 If the notes of elderly patients alleged to have died from asthma are examined it seems that most of them had fixed airways obstruction , with little evidence of having had asthma , and that most died of something else .
38 ‘ Have you tried dusting a brick wall for prints ? ’ one of them had asked Dawson earlier .
39 Some of them had plaited scraps of cloth in their long black hair and all wore beads around their necks .
40 Since she knew by now that some of them had abetted Bothwell in that very matter , she angrily repulsed them .
41 After four years around of quarter of them had developed AIDS and ten per cent had died .
42 While many of them had developed techniques for checking understanding when teaching ‘ traditional ’ FE students , some of which were also useful when working with bilingual students , few of them had any professional training in the part that language plays in classroom learning .
43 In three days , the gimcrack furniture had become familiar and the two of them had developed habits of eating and passing time that was consoling , like the lives of spies in a loft .
44 Scientific evidence that two of them had handled explosives had been discredited after it was shown that the constituents of soap could give the same positive results in the main test used to detect traces of explosive in 1974 .
45 A monastery was a place of prayer , and some monks had teaching duties , and most of them had to guide souls .
46 Many of them had sought counselling from the college chaplain .
47 Most of them had shingled awnings borne on prominent brackets projecting over their simple wooden platforms .
48 All of them had seen Ana 's face .
49 All of them had lost faith in the money market .
50 We would teach the electronics necessary to devise the tests and how it worked and things like that , and sure enough by the end of the time some of them had built devices , well all sorts of devices .
51 It was a long morning , but after many hours and a lot of giggling and parading , the three of them had chosen dresses .
52 Blacks expected — and got — little from Nixon ; only 14% of them had voted Republican in 1968 .
53 In the six months preceding the survey , 40 per cent of them had spent £18 or less on textbooks .
54 Many of them had spent weeks getting there on a dangerous journey from their homes in Sarajevo .
55 Most of them had pierced openings for part or the whole of the light , either left open or filled with glass ( 180 and 181 ) .
56 All of them had held office in Labour Cabinets .
57 From conversations , it appeared that they were not against education per se ; in fact a number of them had left school to go to further education .
58 Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts .
59 All of them had pursued careers and then , thankfully , relinquished them .
60 Neither of them had mentioned Hank .
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