Example sentences of "[adv] they have a [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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now they had a smart restaurant in Blackheath , another in Knightsbridge , and a chain of pizza houses . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But they lost several of the forty seconds through sheer surprise , then they had a technical problem . |
| 19 | And then they had a dumb waiter from er the main office to and and Robert 's office and and did not suffer fools gladly either . |
| 20 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 21 | A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went . |
| 22 | They have a violent film then they have a violent advert . |
| 23 | The new owners of Oxford United admit that if it 's proved , then they have a moral obligation to pay the money back . |
| 24 | If a husband and wife can only tell each other how uncomfortable they feel about the change , and how odd it makes them feel , not endlessly or every day , but just to give a place to the fact , then they have a good chance of staying on a fairly positive course . |
| 25 | I realise that the situation must be uncomfortable for some English people in Scotland , but then they have a ready solution . |
| 26 | At least they had a whole house , with three bedrooms . |
| 27 | The disabled face much frustration and discrimination in their lives and it is vitally important that they receive the maximum help through education , careers guidance , training and help with obtaining employment so that at least they have a real chance to find and keep satisfactory work . |
| 28 | Cos there they had a stark choice then of voting for erm a very low community charge and potentially voting for a very high community charge . |
| 29 | They forgot briefly that they were having a fight ; instead they had a happy half-hour of fantasy about what books they could write and read and live with . |
| 30 | Either they have a sufficient leverage over processing and marketing , for example in the extractive industries , as shown in Moran 's book ( 1974 ) on the copper industry in Chile , or they have sufficient control over intra-firm transfers , particularly transfer pricing . |