Example sentences of "[adv] they have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Though they did n't read much they had a huge library and they just left me to it so I did read without direction .
2 Lambert hesitated , finding excuses in wanting to oversee the complete destruction of the flaming balloon , or wondering where the Triplane was , or perhaps they had a third balloon somewhere …
3 For example , somebody might erm be homeless , but no hostel in town will take them on because perhaps they have a mental illness or a drug problem , or perhaps they are in trouble with the courts erm we can return to that hostel with the person saying ‘ Do n't worry about these other problems , just fill in the bits you can , the accommodation , and we 'll sort out the other bits ’ .
4 So they had a big argument downstairs , this woman plod and the others and I said to John : ‘ Look .
5 So they have a higher income .
6 So they have a wide tax base and they can generate large sums of money if they , if they choose to do so and in different states there 's a different culture , a different attitude towards public spending and taxation and so on .
7 Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity .
8 American trains were classless , but none the less they had a wide range of different styles of accommodation , and the passengers paid for the luxury appropriate to their standing .
9 Early astronomers did not have telescopes to assist their observations , but nevertheless they had a full knowledge of the skies .
10 Normally they had a second soprano in the wings for the high D flat at the end .
11 it was just they had a big warehouse
12 The Act provided no definition of a ‘ public place ’ , but it refers to any place to which the public have access , irrespective of whether or not they have a legal right to go there , even when there are particular and restricted rules of entry .
13 and Jenny was saying she went to Debenhams yesterday they had a twelve day spectacular at eight thirty to eight thirty at night there was clothes they were half price plus you got a third of ten per cent off .
14 As lithium salts were not amenable to being patented , they did not attract the attention of the drug industry : also they had a bad reputation for their toxic effects , and so Cade 's findings were neglected for a long time .
15 Also they had the special quality that their purity could be readily controlled .
16 When the children grew up they had a restricted freedom because the ‘ little people ’ did not permit them to go beyond certain points on a piece of land so the giants rebelled against this , thus starting a war .
17 This is because classically they have a well-defined location at a particular instant whose specification is part of what is involved in saying that they are in the same state of motion .
18 Experience has been both positive and negative : ( a ) negative — often students feel inadequate in that other students always have more knowledge than them , and typically they have no firm home base ; ( b ) positive — the combination of electronics and computing , for example , is seen as highly beneficial by employers .
19 But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap
20 Now they had a smart restaurant in Blackheath , another in Knightsbridge , and a chain of pizza houses .
21 And now they had the immense task of reclaiming all this land and rebuilding all their homes .
22 And now they have an added attraction a few weeks ago they danced to the music of the 14-piece Cleveland Orchestra in a first for the group .
23 Americans love to go over the top and now they have the perfect excuse .
24 When the beak could hold no more , they disappeared into the depths of a thicket where presumably they had a well-hidden nest of young .
25 Mostly they have a dry hacking cough with morning expectoration , increasing to a most violent , gagging cough with vomiting and a sensation as if their head would burst or fly to pieces .
26 Husband and wife and three boys , and later on they had a little girl .
27 After all , it was n't so long ago they had the THREE Arvedladze brothers bearing down on them in Dinamo Tbilisi shirts .
28 Johnson has always had the ability to find haunting , complex musical settings for his songs and here they have the extra benison of ex-Smith Johnny Marr .
29 Well I says to her , I says what , do wo n't they have a big gap ?
30 middle-class people , rich people , go elsewhere ; they go and see their GP , they have a wider network of people that they could perhaps draw on ; and if they do n't they have the nine-to-five freedom from their children , the release from the pressures of having kids around ; they have boarding schools which are a legitimate way of getting rid of our children if you have the money to do it .
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