Example sentences of "[conj] they had some " in BNC.

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1 For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance .
2 Their foot were not in the main Highlandmen — although they had some of these , from upland Perthshire and the Glens of Angus — and so could not travel so fast and far each day .
3 Her face was blank , and Meryl found herself wondering how she could ever have imagined that they had some kind of common bond , women in medicine , friendship .
4 ‘ Well , let's just say that they had some strange beliefs .
5 The petitions on their own may be unreliable , but the response of the Crown to them must surely be an indication that they had some substance : a government which was regularly short of funds would be unlikely to grant remissions , and the fact that different towns were allowed varying amounts of tax allowance suggests that some attempt was made to calculate the resources available .
6 Is that the one that they had some problems with the er rugby club ?
7 And they had some terrible times , I can tell you .
8 And as soon as they finished their feed and they had some drinks from the small tins as well , we used to put them one by one back in these boxes where the eggs were and they used to settle down straight off then after they had their feed and and they used to erm settle down no trouble at all .
9 Erm the Japanese presence in the south was , was more just along the coast , they , they , they 'd taken the trading ports erm and they had some of the interior but on , on the whole south China had not been dominated by the Japanese , th th th their base was very much the north China plain and , and spreading across towards the communist areas .
10 I went into New Look and they had some lovely things in there this morning !
11 Anyway they said what else would they like and they had some , a set of luggage , well it 's only this nylon stuff but it was very useful for them to take away with them it did a bit of good the and I , I put in this letter I shall no longer order , I shall what was it ?
12 I have n't been in it since we 've been here and I said ooh there , they 're packed out and they had some beautiful stuff
13 He wondered if they had some other sort of beam they could train on him , which would make him forget things , or make his attention wander .
14 It was n't as if they had some sort of relationship ; he had taken her out only to help her with her search .
15 If they had some sort of party in there he 's gon na go over the top you know .
16 ‘ Looks like they had some sort of problem with their trailer there , ’ I said .
17 He could n't get my bag back for me , or the other contents , because they had some value — although very little I 'm sure — whereas the letter , having no value at all ( except for me of course ! ) was thrown away .
18 But , and I have no concerns about sports ground sale , we 've regulated the numbers because they had some concerns about the and that , that itself has caused 's fellow supporters some problems , but we 've actually restricted the number of people who can use the sports ground .
19 I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate .
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