Example sentences of "they had was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foreman , Ricky Hill , said afterwards that the only problem they had was in deciding exactly when Mr Bakker began the pattern of fraud . |
| 2 | By the time a Scots undertaker 's horseman and his widow were dead , ‘ the little they had was all gone ; ’ and this would have been typical enough . |
| 3 | The best idea they had was to travel back to the Wars of the Roses and bring two armoured knights with them into the age of the Krooms . |
| 4 | Every other farm in the dale was blessed with children able to share the work but all they had was elderly folk who did their level best to help but were just too old and infirm . |
| 5 | The information they had was sketchy , to say the least , but they had responded immediately to the appeal of Retford 's station sergeant . |
| 6 | The only protection they had was the car itself . |
| 7 | As it was , the wiring system they had was worthless . |
| 8 | So far most of the conclusions are broadly in line with other studies , but there is a brief , but interesting , discussion about carers ' groups , where the authors state that , contrary to the present emphasis professionals give to self-help , ‘ the last thing ( carers ) wanted to do with the little free time they had was to talk about elderly people ’ . |
| 9 | Everything they had was here . |
| 10 | In an earlier chapter I noted that a study of poor people 's movements in the US concluded that such influence as they had was derived from mass protests rather than from participation in electoral politics ; and a study of the economic progress of black Americans in the late 1970s argued that it was ‘ under the impetus of the civil rights movement and the ghetto revolts of the sixties , [ that ] blacks gained access to new employment opportunities in business , government , the media , and high paying jobs in the skilled crafts ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) . |
| 11 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 12 | Everybody 's door was open , whatever they had was shared you know whatever one ever had , an even it was only half a loaf it was there . |
| 13 | Aye everything was gi really fantastic the people that helped the people that gave to the strike , out of this world I know the help they had was really fantastic . |
| 14 | Everything they had was out of date and food was in very short supply . |
| 15 | Cos everybody else got the erm , forms , erm , the appraisal , and the one they had was supposed to be target setting for each department manager . |
| 16 | Oh , and the , the trip they had was to er the Middle East , erm in the desert |
| 17 | I doubt if they have any better cards in now , cos all they had was that |
| 18 | Apparently , a lot of the trouble they had was her father ! |