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

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1 The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route .
2 They had had a pleasant walk and an easy supper .
3 Although they had no single rooms left , they said finally , they had had a late cancellation of a suite .
4 But first they had had a late tea in the smaller of the drawing-rooms .
5 She and Tom had met because they had had a playful debate about whether and in what sense you could say that coal pre-dated miners .
6 He had toyed with the idea of taking her to Dublin anyway , but they had had a rocky road enough already and perhaps she would be better at home .
7 They had had a good run for their money and there were still thousands of reels of tape to be analysed and matched against other intelligence sources .
8 They had had a big Sunday lunch , with Mum and Dad being there .
9 They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children .
10 Dmitri agreed with her , and they had had a passionate argument last night with Marchak , who drove racing cars , and Frolovna , who had loved a matador for two weeks in Spain .
11 Similarly , Zuwaya claimed that they had had a Turkish licence — an exclusive licence , no less — to conduct traders and travellers who wished to cross the desert from Benghazi to Black Africa .
12 This means that they had had a heightened awareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disability career .
13 Three years earlier they had had a brief affair .
14 They had had a fine collection : Tombs and Torturers ; Vices and Virgins .
15 Many , he said , were convinced that they had had no managerial experience , yet they had successfully brought up children , run a home , and far more .
16 How he had intended that they should live with her for a while , and how his mother had a grudge against Bridget , and the terrible row they had had the previous night , and how they did n't know where they were going to live .
17 He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary .
18 In 1987 14 per cent of the population of Great Britain , 16 per cent of females and 12 per cent of males , reported that they had had an acute health episode in the previous 14 days .
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