Example sentences of "they had a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living in the northern cities , they had a deep commitment to the radical wing of the Liberal Party and were overwhelmingly nonconformist in religion . |
| 2 | Family was Jim and the others ; family was her women 's group and squabbling at two-thirty in the morning about whether women could be said to constitute a separate class because they had a separate relation to the mode of production , while still making each other coffee and giving each other hugs . |
| 3 | Lily said , ‘ No , we can get Miss Bradshaw 's signature any time we want it ’ , and Vernon shouted that they had a perfect right to loiter on a public pavement . |
| 4 | Swallow explained ‘ They had a low-key attitude to the region and had just wanted to get a foot in the door . |
| 5 | The children themselves were not present at the Hearing , as they had a legal obligation to be . |
| 6 | This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis . |
| 7 | maybe that 's one of women 's traditions , I believe they had a big part to pla play in it . |
| 8 | He was right when he had said that they had a peculiar reaction to each other . |
| 9 | I really a word , and they had a little chat to us . |