Example sentences of "they had have [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So people would be sitting round four corners of this , they had to have a napkin over all their laps which they did .
2 And erm I they had to have a couple of I mean I think
3 They had had a banquet in the middle of the fast .
4 And they had had a discussion about it , speculating as to whether he actually lived there or was there to kill something , rats , moles , any sort of infestation .
5 It was frequently said of great men in the ancient world , for example of Plato , that they had had a god for a father and a human mother .
6 Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now .
7 They had had a message from Windsor , and were on their way to arrest Joseph Shill .
8 They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth .
9 Well — what if there were , they had had a lot of him and would find through loss , perhaps , all sorts of qualities in themselves and others they would otherwise have missed .
10 In the spring , they had had a vase of bluebells in the kitchen ; he had run up the stem of one full , blue flower and it had barely bent under his weight .
11 Unusually for her and Sheila , they had had no contact with each other .
12 The few who maintained they had had no benefit from their training were all apprentices .
13 Some subject board chairmen were adamant that they were not prepared to implement a policy that they had had no hand in shaping .
14 In a recent survey of consultant staff supervising preregistration house officers in Yorkshire 79% admitted that they had had no training in educational method , yet three quarters stated that they would like it .
15 They had to satisfy the judges that they had had the education of an English gentleman .
16 It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences .
17 Conservative Members did not wait to find out whether people would vote for that courage and conviction , but bundled out the then Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) pretty quickly once they had had the encouragement of a Liberal Democrat by-election win and the exposure of the divisions by the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East .
18 They had had the forethought to post him in the garden .
19 They had had the pain for a mean of 40 months ( range 2 months-28 years ) at presentation and a mean total duration at follow up of eight years ( range 2.5–35 years ) .
20 We excluded patients if ( i ) they had had an episode of pneumonia within the past 6 months , ( ii ) they lived in a nursing home or had been admitted to another hospital within the past 2 weeks , and ( iii ) there was subsequent clinical or laboratory evidence of a different diagnosis .
21 But the two of them had had a falling-out on the night of the capitalization party .
22 My previous attempts at getting rid of them had had the effect of reactivating them .
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