Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’
2 It appeared that they wished to have the system completed and in operation before paying further .
3 After a three-month stoppage , engineers said last week that they expected to have the plant running again in a fortnight .
4 They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’
5 Winchester 's complaints that they had had no opportunity to make any representation and that they lacked particulars of the allegations which were made against them , met with no response from Lautro .
6 Winchester complained that they had had no opportunity to make any representations , and that they lacked particulars of the allegations made against them , to which there was no direct response from Lautro .
7 In a recent survey of consultant staff supervising preregistration house officers in Yorkshire 79% admitted that they had had no training in educational method , yet three quarters stated that they would like it .
8 Some subject board chairmen were adamant that they were not prepared to implement a policy that they had had no hand in shaping .
9 It was frequently said of great men in the ancient world , for example of Plato , that they had had a god for a father and a human mother .
10 She wanted their parents to know that they had had an accident , were safely aboard a Royal Navy ship and would be home soon . ’
11 They had to satisfy the judges that they had had the education of an English gentleman .
12 1784 " The Meeting considering that there is now no Charity Schoolmaster in the Parish of Kildaltan , and Therefore the four pounds yearly for said Schoolmaster falls , and the Gentlemen of the Parish of Kildaltan having represented that they wish to have a fund for Purchasing Communion Tables & furms , and that four pounds sterl. will be necessary for that purpose , … agree to stent themselves for the sd. four pounds for this year . "
13 The sheer fact that they want to have a go , they want to improve ; they want to look at their work is a very good thing .
14 Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering .
15 The reason I cite these tales is that they do have a bearing on one another , albeit a tenuous .
16 ‘ These are not easy questions to resolve but I think that if it is possible , actually to speak to these characters in such a way that they feel that they are valued and that they do have a part to play in the community , then we are on the way to resolving questions of this sort .
17 But even now , having gone through that process , they would not see men as the enemy , they feel that they do have a lot in common , for example , with maybe the conception of women organising in National Liberation struggles that was mentioned earlier .
18 One of the biggest problems in working with these young people is overcoming their anti-school attitudes and convincing the former that they do have the ability and the latter that education is essential if they are to make a success of life .
19 Dr. Glasser 's Control Theory holds that people can be shown that they do have the choice of control over their thoughts and actions even though awareness of that choice may initially elude them .
20 So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment .
21 Steroids were begun soon after this and in the absence of further relapse it is possible that they have had an effect on the disease .
22 It is not advisable for a person to tell their employer or work colleagues that they have had the test , or its result .
23 If a person does tell their GP , the fact that they have had the test will be noted on their medical records .
24 The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s .
25 One third of teachers say that they have had the use of INSET days to conduct their review : the same proportion have undertaken assessment of pupils especially for this purpose and have kept a diary as part of the review process .
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