Example sentences of "they have [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted . |
| 2 | They had not a great deal of choice . |
| 3 | But maybe there they had only a mild form , or maybe it was n't even real polio . |
| 4 | Muhammad Ali , the Deputy Chief of Police , from a town with no Magharba or Zuwaya , told them they had only a little quarrel : they could easily settle it themselves ; if the police intervened it would become more bitter ; they would be wise to make peace ( sulh ) and not to call for judgement . |
| 5 | In international relations , in a broader sense of the term , they were beginning to play an increasing part , and one with immense potentialities for the future ; but even in 1914 they had only a secondary role in the thinking of diplomats or foreign offices . |
| 6 | They had only a short time before followed the tantalising fresh scent-trail laid by Grant and Larsen , which they had then lost at the foot of the house wall . |
| 7 | No well they had quite a cheap way I think they had to pay for it all themselves . |
| 8 | They had quite a warm friendship . ’ |
| 9 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 10 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 11 | For one thing , they have n't a proper infrastructure . |
| 12 | They may giggle and act as though they have not a serious thought in their heads , but they know exactly what they are up to . |
| 13 | They have only a limited view of science , and would have some difficulty reading , say , a textbook of physics from only about 25 years ago . |
| 14 | The overwhelming conclusion emerging from any assessment of these programmes is that they have only a marginal impact on inner-urban problems . |
| 15 | Kestrels are very prone to tail damage — they have quite a long tail for the size of the bird and in training a leash rubbing against it can snap feathers . |
| 16 | However , because thermosetting plastics consist essentially of an irregular three-dimensional network of molecules , something like glass , they have quite a low work of fracture — seldom more than 100 J/m 2 and usually much less — and so they behave mechanically in much the same way as glass does . |