Example sentences of "they have a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 've a rather shorter run planned this birthday celebration . |
| 2 | At the moment they 've a very good training plant for for Sizewell B , they show you the old erm magnox station , but they also the pressure water reactor station , and course also we 've got the very old one down at Bradwell if you know about , down on the Me West Merseyside , we got the old power station down there . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've a very fine church here , ’ said Christopher , ‘ painted in shades of gold . |
| 4 | I seem to remember he got away from her by locking himself in his flat with friends for the weekend and they had a jolly good party . |
| 5 | I think they had a jolly good time at the taxpayer 's expense , I but I wo n't be |
| 6 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 7 | Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra ( again ! ) recorded Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony in this manner ; but Victor 's other LPs had to be patched-up dubbings from standard records , and they had a distinctly second-hand quality . |
| 8 | They had a remarkably dense network of social organisation — probably in reaction to the overwhelming ‘ Germanness ’ of their surroundings . |
| 9 | They were far too interested in girls and vodka , and they had a rather negative influence on the colonists . ’ |
| 10 | He was playing Puck and when I went to see the Company doing it well they had a completely different way of doing it , they wo they did it really like er a dec you know the the mechanical play , I do n't know if you know A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 11 | He was playing Puck and when I went to see the Company doing it well they had a completely different way of doing it , they wo they did it really like er a dec you know the the mechanical play , I do n't know if you know A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 12 | When they were little they had a little artificial tree and put out their stockings on Christmas Eve . |
| 13 | They felt that they had a much stronger position than before and that a certain amount of muscle flexing was now unavoidable if they were not to lose face with their supporters . |
| 14 | They had a relatively easy passage to the escarpment , where they split up . |
| 15 | Readers of the tabloid press overwhelmingly preferred television rather than the press as an information source but , like other voters , they had a relatively slight preference for television rather than the press for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 16 | For another , they had a perfectly good word to describe our human vitality , the quality that marks off a living person from a dead one and that was nephesh . |
| 17 | I was aware I was staggering slightly , lurching sporadically into Jamie or the girl , but there was n't a great deal I could do about it ; I felt rather like one of those ancient dinosaurs so huge that they had a virtually separate brain to control their back legs . |
| 18 | It might be thought reasonable to treat all cases of NSU so diagnosed when they initially present to the clinic as if they had a sexually transmitted disease and prescribe appropriate antibiotics , and , indeed , this is common practice in most clinics . |
| 19 | They had a very friendly reception , particularly from Mrs Eileen Lemass , the Irish Chairwoman . |
| 20 | They they had a very strong well-organized er well-organized branch locally . |
| 21 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 22 | ‘ In our case , I think people were looking further afield for education without realising that they had a very good facility close to home . |
| 23 | To the administrators concerned with the welfare of the Masai , however , it seemed that they had a very good case for keeping the enormous area which had been assigned to them . |
| 24 | They had a very good sense of humour and could tell long sophisticated stories in what is called the spaccato , the real dialect of Parma . |
| 25 | erm Well they had a very good game against erm Milwall on erm Wednesday night , which they drew nil all , an excellent game here today erm scored the vital winning goal and duly Brian Horton handed over the loot after the game today and said ‘ there you are , you can take the man of the match award ’ . |
| 26 | They had a very large breakfast together . |
| 27 | They had a very large number of Scots sergeants and they all seemed to be very close . |
| 28 | He explained : ‘ Gazza would not have been able to function the way he did against Turkey without Paul Ince and Carlton Palmer because they had a very important job to do . |
| 29 | They had a really lucky escape . |
| 30 | They had a bloody great row . |