Example sentences of "they [verb] had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |
| 2 | She remembered the difficulties they 'd had repairing Starlings after the war , when you could n't get a brick or a plank of wood , not even if you was royalty ; and she remembered comforting Nell as each granddaughter left home . |
| 3 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 4 | and the two court orders , they , they 'd had one court one cheque and one for the other |
| 5 | They were afraid to ta but if they 'd had that if they 'd told me to provide an extra coach for the Manchester as I was suggesting , Dougie would have come out and taken strips off them for You see . |
| 6 | Not that they 'd had many takers , no more than fifty , mostly scum from prison camps attracted by the offer of good food , women and money . |
| 7 | She had n't lost her tail , they 'd had two following her . |
| 8 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |
| 9 | It was exactly the sort of letter she would have written if they 'd had two hundred thousand in the bank instead of less than nothing . |
| 10 | Did I tell me when we got up to erm Newcastle we turned on the local news , they 'd had five inches of rain which is a winter 's rain in four days . |
| 11 | Even the drainpipes , clinging half-heartedly to cracked walls and rusty gutters , looked as if they 'd had enough . |
| 12 | It would have taken him all day even if they 'd had enough tarmac in the back of the pickup ! |
| 13 | Eighteen hours later , they 'd had enough and gave up . |
| 14 | Thought they 'd had enough . |
| 15 | A large number of dogs who end up in the rescue homes would be on the vet 's euthanasia list if they 'd had different owners . |
| 16 | Cos they 'd had this meal . |
| 17 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
| 18 | Three girls , see you 're lucky really cos if they 'd had three boys an i , in a few times , you know , ten years time like , they 'd have all , the boys would of been growing up and they 'd have had cars stuck everywhere , you know what I mean ? |
| 19 | It would n't have been , if they 'd had any furniture in when we , when we first got in I would n't have been surprised to see it painted round there as well . |
| 20 | er and Sharon never alt er cancelled that , well they come out and they said they 'd had Chinese flu so when I went into and had me chest done , I says I 've got the flu like , she says yeah she said I says I , I know , I said they 've got that Chinese flu she 's be |
| 21 | Out of the three statements from fellow travellors read out to the coroner , non said they 'd had previous warnings from either the travel company or the foreign office that the region they were in had experienced previous Muslim fundamentalist acts of terrorism against visitors . |
| 22 | All the previously unbeaten sides lost , leaving only SCUM unbeaten ( but they ve had easy games except for the home game to newcastle which was 1–1 ) . |
| 23 | Already they 've had six million francs ' profit from an investment of twelve million — but always they want more . " |
| 24 | So they 've had five years this is not re , this is not just recently . |
| 25 | think well they 've had long enough now we 'll we 'll have a switch you know |
| 26 | Well they 've had long enough to do it ! |
| 27 | Now I know one or two people who said they 've had such terrible headaches |
| 28 | They 've had two weeks of overtime ai n't they ? |
| 29 | ‘ They 've had one of the stags again . |
| 30 | We 've had numerous games like that ( against the US ) when we 've murdered teams , they 've had one or two shots and taken all three points . |