Example sentences of "[vb base] have their [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In any case , I do n't know any women who expect to have their dinners paid for .
2 Never trust anyone who votes differently from their parents — they 're either perennial students or upwardly mobile , and in either case deserve to have their bodies ground into animal feed .
3 If they do n't , they face having their caravans towed away .
4 Fix it for someone who does n't love the Scum to present and commentate on Manc of the Day , Alan Hanson 's brilliant but the rest seem to have their noses burried up Alex Fergusons behind or even Eric the Fleds .
5 Some , the most severely handicapped , continue to have their needs met in schools designed to cater for their degree of disability .
6 or ask to have their faces shat upon —
7 An exporter would approach the UK bank concerned for details and then apply to have their contracts financed through the line of credit .
8 Vested interests have defended the status quo with great skill and determination and they 've had their axes sharpened using er sharpeners energised by the oxygen of Labour 's irresponsible backing off .
9 Squirrels who 've had their trees cut down !
10 The details of this task are entrusted to the Future Legislation Committee of the Cabinet which has to cope with a flood of requests from the various Departments of State who all wish to have their proposals included .
11 The sociologist then finds that this general picture ( the theory ) suggests certain ideas which may explain why non-Christians wish to have their babies undergo a ceremony in a religious belief to which they themselves do not subscribe .
12 Many who take their hybridizing seriously prefer to have their roses growing in the controlled conditions of an unheated greenhouse , but with simple precautions , the beds outdoors are quite feasible .
13 In the past six months , two of my constituents have had their passes removed by Ministry of Defence navy police .
14 ‘ The majority of those who have had their becaks taken away have stayed here .
15 The remainder have had their teeth drawn . ’
16 Workers at a department store have had their pensions frozen because money was taken out of the fund before the shop was sold to new owners .
17 But there is always a hard core of people needing to rent , he says , such as couples testing the market or people who have had their fingers burnt .
18 However , the concerts may not be as thick on the ground as in previous years because the province 's main promoters have had their fingers burnt on a few occasions during festival season and they are not taking any big risks for the remainder of the year .
19 350 car workers have had their contracts extended by a further six months to cope with the demand for the Maestro and Montego cars .
20 Many local authorities have had their budgets cut by reductions in central government They 've been given better education and higher expectations , but no future .
21 We all share the view that local authority services should be provided by highly motivated , highly trained professional staff but local authorities have had their budgets cut from central government over the last thirteen years which has restricted the amount of finance available for training and has cut to the bone the finance available to provide efficient and effective services to the consumer .
22 At the same time many working people have had their belts tightened for them as factories closed and unions accepted cutbacks .
23 Some of the larger theatres have had their grants increased too .
24 Therefore it would also seem possible to learn a functional sign language without a positive desire to become deaf on the part of the hearing learner ; nevertheless , it has been the case in the past that those who have learned sign language have often been cast in the integrative mould and have had their views devalued by the hearing community because of it .
25 Independent transport companies that have sought to win business away from existing contractors in the Fulton market have had their lorries damaged and their workers hammered with loading hooks .
26 ‘ A lot of people have had their eyes opened up now .
27 There are terrible stories of how men have had their eyes torn from their sockets , or their tongue ripped from the roots by the sidh .
28 In addition , many of those who have had their homes repossessed are now being chased by building societies and banks for the short-falls arising after the sale of their homes , many of which are being sold for less than the mortgage owing on them .
29 ‘ Those who have had their homes repossessed expect to be able to get a council house easily , ’ she added .
30 People with HIV and AIDS have been victimised and abused at work — some have lost their jobs , some have had their homes attacked , others have been refused insurance and mortgages .
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