Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Chinese lunch they 'd had the secretary phone out for lay on the coffee table like a child 's experiments with putty and paint and designer ooze . |
2 | Under the 1944 Education Act they have had a duty to provide this for numerous categories of children : the blind , partially sighted , deaf , partially hearing , physically handicapped , delicate , maladjusted , epileptic , educationally subnormal , children with speech defects , and the autistic . |
3 | From the 1968 Health Services and Public Health Act they have had the powers to promote the welfare of old people . |
4 | The first body they passed had a piece of paper pinned to its blanket , Smith , Maisie . |
5 | so if you did fit anything on the back of the head they 'd had the comfort , they know what was wrong like |
6 | Even when in the past they have had the party order wrong , they have invariably been nearer the actual figures . |
7 | And then she came back er , just before lunchtime I think and then they tried to , they sat Kirsty and and Claire down , and they told them to make up and talk to each other and in the end they started having a fight ! |
8 | Now if your person were to say come round , said it 's the first time they 've had a fit you get , call an ambulance , it may be epilepsy but it could be anything else , it could erm be , be the start of er something else in the brain because that 's all an epileptic fit is , it 's an electrical impulse , nobody actually knows why or when or how it 's caused , but it happens erm , but above all be very , very nice to your casualties , they 'll want to get up and they 'll run away , they want to get out , especially if it 's outside , because they 're embarrassed by it . |
9 | What has happened is that on conversion they have had a host of non-Christian friends . |