Example sentences of "[adv] they had [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They used to advocate it for withdrawing heroin addicts — naturally they had little success . |
| 2 | The men themselves could hardly bear to be above ground ; at least down below they had each other . |
| 3 | Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps they had another reconciliation . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps they had more confidence in Mortimer as a commander than they ever had in Edward II : Mortimer held the lordship of Trim ( County Meath ) in right of his wife and although he had been defeated by Edward Bruce in Meath in December 1315 , he had shown some skill in restoring order in Ireland after the Bruce invasion . |
| 6 | If only they had some grenades of the gas or choke or knockout variety ! |
| 7 | So they had that from there on Friday night did they not ? |
| 8 | So they had all these letters printed up , that they owe us one |
| 9 | So they had another big fight down there , did n't they ? |
| 10 | So they had this girl which they showed er , where they had to break all the bone up under here |
| 11 | Of course they did n't get the portable with this , they rang them up , said where 's my colour portable said I 'll put you on to the manager anyway they had some deal that night that erm to launch this Mini Mayfair or whatever it was wine and cheese thing so he went to the wine and cheese thing and worried he was gon na kick up a fuss so they gave him a telly anyway . |
| 12 | There scientists will discover the sex and age of the skeletons and whether or not they had any diseases . |
| 13 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 14 | Back home they had few conveniences … every day Jill Worthington boiled up nappies for Sally . |
| 15 | It was a Saturday , their father was sleeping in , as were their three elder brothers , so for once they had some time to play by themselves , which they did in the yard . |
| 16 | My case was more straightforward and quite honestly they had little choice but to uphold my appeal . |
| 17 | Now they had less than nothing to lose she felt an ancient pugnacity stirring within her . |
| 18 | Neither admitted to the other that each was tortured by fear : now they had more than ever to lose . |
| 19 | More than 75 million Soviet citizens lived outside their ‘ own ’ republic ( Kazakhstan alone contained more than 100 different nationalities ) , and very often they had little knowledge of the language of the republican majority . |
| 20 | ‘ Well they had this sale of nylons twenty-eight cents below what I usually pay . |
| 21 | Well they had those Newcastle that was going towards Marketplace . |
| 22 | So I thought well they had some white napkins but they did n't go , the did n't go with it . |
| 23 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 24 | Erm When Pentecost Day came around they had all met in one room . |
| 25 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |
| 26 | and er , well years ago they had all these bottle of potions on the back shelf I suppose |
| 27 | When the French were here they had much freedom in the camp because they were sensible and did not try to escape . |
| 28 | About an hour earlier they had each dropped an Ecstasy tab . |
| 29 | And then they had that great Aquatade Aquacade in another place . |
| 30 | Then they had another party . |