Example sentences of "they have have [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end , of course , they were thoroughly enjoying themselves because they 'd had a bit to drink and it was a jolly convivial evening . ’ |
| 2 | I put them back into the tank , still amazed they 'd had the strength to move the glass . |
| 3 | It was n't very fair to feel betrayed by someone you loved , someone very close to you , simply because they 'd had the misfortune to die suddenly … |
| 4 | But the newspaper people — and the people who read them , which is pretty well everybody — they 've had no chance to think the thing through . |
| 5 | I do n't think I 'd like to say that there were until they 've had the chance to find out . |
| 6 | So they 've heard a lot about what happens here and they 've had the opportunity to look around . |
| 7 | They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’ |
| 8 | The first that Winchester knew of the decision in regard to which they had had no opportunity to make any prior representations , was when the copy announced itself upon their fax machine on 31 October . |
| 9 | Winchester 's complaints that they had had no opportunity to make any representation and that they lacked particulars of the allegations which were made against them , met with no response from Lautro . |
| 10 | Winchester complained that they had had no opportunity to make any representations , and that they lacked particulars of the allegations made against them , to which there was no direct response from Lautro . |
| 11 | If only they had had the sense to invest in cleaning up our power stations , as the Germans have done , we would not watch electricity industry representatives and Ministers rushing around trying to find cheap fixes to meet their European obligations . |
| 12 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 13 | Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls . |
| 14 | As any changes to the Parish Council 's bank accounts must be authorised by the Parish Councillors I would ask you to continue the present arrangement until they have had a chance to discuss any alterations you might suggest . |
| 15 | And for once , as I will explain , they have had a chance to fight back . |
| 16 | As they are marginally faster , the ability to begin fleeing before they have had a chance to accelerate to full speed is crucial . |
| 17 | It is often said that children have their lives before them and to die before they have had a chance to develop their personalities and lives seems particularly cruel . |
| 18 | Under the 1944 Education Act they have had a duty to provide this for numerous categories of children : the blind , partially sighted , deaf , partially hearing , physically handicapped , delicate , maladjusted , epileptic , educationally subnormal , children with speech defects , and the autistic . |
| 19 | Only they have had the chance to view the Earth from this unique vantage point — until now . |
| 20 | TRAINEES from a skills training scheme have been told their courses are to be chopped before they have had the chance to gain their qualifications . |
| 21 | TRAINEES from two NorthEast skills training schemes have been told their courses are to be chopped before they have had the chance to gain their qualifications . |
| 22 | From the 1968 Health Services and Public Health Act they have had the powers to promote the welfare of old people . |
| 23 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |