Example sentences of "[adv] they had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though they did n't read much they had a huge library and they just left me to it so I did read without direction . |
| 2 | Lambert hesitated , finding excuses in wanting to oversee the complete destruction of the flaming balloon , or wondering where the Triplane was , or perhaps they had a third balloon somewhere … |
| 3 | Did you say somebody called but perhaps they had a key though , I wo n't say anything to her , they might have had a key . |
| 4 | Obviously they had a market for it . |
| 5 | So they had a big argument downstairs , this woman plod and the others and I said to John : ‘ Look . |
| 6 | So they had a meeting and decided they would put a big net over the entrance to the valley so that it would never be able to get in again . |
| 7 | So this was so they had a pizza sort of shared it out between ten people . |
| 8 | American trains were classless , but none the less they had a wide range of different styles of accommodation , and the passengers paid for the luxury appropriate to their standing . |
| 9 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 10 | Together they had a little over two thousand saved . |
| 11 | Oh , dear God , they had a baby , together they had a baby ! |
| 12 | Early astronomers did not have telescopes to assist their observations , but nevertheless they had a full knowledge of the skies . |
| 13 | ‘ Normally they had a second soprano in the wings for the high D flat at the end . |
| 14 | Thus they had a chance actively to project onto me whatever ‘ wickedness ’ they had in their minds . |
| 15 | Anyway they had a , a special coupon in the Campaign this week and I said to Di I said phone this number I said and put our washing machine in , I said they 're not taking no notice . |
| 16 | it was just they had a big warehouse |
| 17 | and Jenny was saying she went to Debenhams yesterday they had a twelve day spectacular at eight thirty to eight thirty at night there was clothes they were half price plus you got a third of ten per cent off . |
| 18 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |
| 19 | When they were little , whenever they had a cut or a graze and had to have the plaster taken off , which was painful , William 's grandad used to give them a treat first . |
| 20 | THE first fire crews arriving at ICI Lostock yesterday knew instantly they had a fight on their hands . |
| 21 | As lithium salts were not amenable to being patented , they did not attract the attention of the drug industry : also they had a bad reputation for their toxic effects , and so Cade 's findings were neglected for a long time . |
| 22 | When the children grew up they had a restricted freedom because the ‘ little people ’ did not permit them to go beyond certain points on a piece of land so the giants rebelled against this , thus starting a war . |
| 23 | I found out they had a computer in the bottom of the building when I worked in the bank and it started off from that . |
| 24 | But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap |
| 25 | Now they had a claim . |
| 26 | And now they had a baby daughter . |
| 27 | Now they had a smart restaurant in Blackheath , another in Knightsbridge , and a chain of pizza houses . |
| 28 | When the beak could hold no more , they disappeared into the depths of a thicket where presumably they had a well-hidden nest of young . |
| 29 | His grandparents were bankers in Switzerland , his parents had a luxury home on Lake Geneva and later on they had a flat in London and another in Paris . |
| 30 | Husband and wife and three boys , and later on they had a little girl . |