Example sentences of "they have had [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we went down some steps and along a dark passageway , open to the sky , I recalled Maria 's visit to this terrible place , the night they 'd had Raoul here , the night Arsenio had wanted to kill Raoul and Osvaldo had forgiven him . |
| 2 | What became real to her was not Therese Aschmann , but the tiny diamond and garnet engagement ring Willi had bought in a shop at the back of St Stephen 's Cathedral , and Gerda 's delight , and the luck they had had in getting two cancellation seats at the Staatsoper for a performance of Figaro , and the elegance of their hotel , and the toy truck they had bought for Georg , which had been so large they 'd had trouble getting it home . |
| 3 | Oh yeah these maintenance contracts are the lowest , I mean I took one out on my mum 's C D player because they 'd , they 'd had trouble with it , er multi play , turns out it was the stack one they had trouble with not that one , but it was only thirty quid for four years I mean |
| 4 | He 'd scarcely set eyes on him since the night they 'd had dinner together at the house in Westwood . |
| 5 | And they 'd had rain had n't they ? |
| 6 | They 'd had supper anyway . |
| 7 | They 've had , not just from Britain they 've had help , they 've had it from all over Europe and it 's still |
| 8 | And they 've had permission |
| 9 | And the gardens they 've made , they 've made beautiful and do you know they 've had permission to use the old name . |
| 10 | He said before leaving : ‘ They 've had fall outs , but no more than any other marriage . ’ |
| 11 | And then you get into the situations apparently where erm people decide after they 've had sex |
| 12 | You know they 've had flu |
| 13 | They 've had chance . |
| 14 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 15 | Adrian says they 've had an incredible response to the new boat … the best ever … they 've had interest worldwide from Japan to South America |
| 16 | They 've had oil exploration here for many years on a small scale , and this is the result : under every boulder , a thick coating of waste oil . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've visited some mums three times a day , especially if they 've had breast-feeding problems . ’ |
| 18 | just been on where they 've had unemployment and loss of jobs and the Tory 's held it . |
| 19 | I bet they 've had beer all afternoon . |
| 20 | I think so , It made me feel that some actually seem to be quite keen to have suburban or mid-week , even though they 've had city centre ones in the past . |
| 21 | I 've got a Seymour Duncan Convertible amp as well , and I know people say they 've had trouble with reliability , but I 've never travelled with mine so I would n't know ! |
| 22 | Meanwhile the pair say that they 've had trouble in the past with vandalism and youths prowling around the back of the council owned flats . |
| 23 | And they bought it last summer and they 've had trouble ever since ! |
| 24 | It had been bored or dug or had occurred naturally at an incline of about thirty degrees , so that all the way down into the mine , holding onto the rope , they had had purchase for their feet , had almost been able to walk don , though describing it thus made a dull and orthodox act of what had been the great adventure of their boyhood . |
| 25 | But they had bought food on their way coming through Halstead , the 1976 version of takeaway , a couple of meat pies , apples , Coke , and they had had lunch lying in the grass by the lake . |
| 26 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |
| 27 | For months they had had difficulty in reconciling the accounts until they realized the extent of shoplifting . |
| 28 | ‘ Do you know about the Borrowdale cuckoo ? ’ he asked , turning an amused expression on the man who might — from these questions — be from the government — they had had government people before and he would not be surprised at them sending a senior man . |
| 29 | He was so candid that , for a moment , Kelly expected him to reveal that they had had dinner together , but with the slightest hint of a cautionary glance in her direction , he merely referred to ‘ a follow-up meeting away from the office ’ . |
| 30 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |