Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unionists did not wish to stand down where they had a candidate of their own ready to fight ; in these circumstances , the NDP did remarkably well in 1918 , winning eleven seats , all in Labour strongholds where neither Unionists nor Coalition Liberals had much desire to stand , and they beat both MacDonald and Henderson . |
| 2 | The lower jaw of these fish is loosely slung to the brain case so that they had a very wide ‘ gape ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 4 | As well as the company brochure , employees were given documentation on the five counties surrounding the relocation area so that they had the opportunity to get to know the areas before visiting them . |
| 5 | There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence . |
| 6 | From an employer 's point of view , would n't that be er , better if they had a key man insurance under something like erm , well under a Cover Master , for example , because if he was a long term em employer |
| 7 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 8 | Accordingly , it submitted that a member state might introduce rules which entailed that nationals of other member states might utilise that member state 's quotas only if they had a close connection with that state . |
| 9 | Moreover , landlords were restrained by the knowledge that they would attract good tenants only if they had a reputation for fairness . |
| 10 | He knew that it would be going to the Ministry of Defence , but the paperwork submitted to the Department of Trade and Industry would state that the purchaser was the Ministry of Agriculture ; Department of Trade and Industry rules said that manufactured goods could be exported to Iraq only if they had no military usage . |
| 11 | They were asked to participate only if they had no history of gastrointestinal diseases or abdominal surgery other than appendectomy , and if they had no symptoms that could be attributed to gastrintestinal motility disorders . |
| 12 | Any family could join in provided they had the money and were not Jewish — racism thrived tolerably well in meritocratic suburbia where Jews sometimes had to form their own clubs . |
| 13 | oh yes , but not in the ordinary er there was a huge place , where you could put tables all round the tables , you see , and , and er it was a and er I liked it , I , when they were busy , you see , I used to , especially if they had an order for these hundreds of cups of tea , er , you see , I used to go down and give a hand then , I used to like it , you see , somebody would give a shout and I would come down from the office and and left them anyway and then er I heard of this job . |
| 14 | ( c. 1 ) Writing shortly after Charles 's death , he believed that a new generation of both kings and nobles could preserve the realm so long as they had the right personal qualities . |
| 15 | Liverpool get a penalty — ‘ suprise suprise ’ ( especially as they had a pen against them during the week , one of very few no doubt ) . |
| 16 | Right so they had a third X cubed or X cubed over three . |
| 17 | Not unless they had the money to pay for it which they did n't have . |
| 18 | Most groups form after a shared devotion to the works of some particular group or an affinity for a particular style-sound-wash , but Guy ( keyboards ) , Fraggle ( guitar ) , Carl ( bass ) , Henry ( drums ) and Fil ( vocals ) hatched their idea whilst squatting a disused dole office in Peckham , South London , just because they had an attitude in common . |
| 19 | Well when Ken said about the headboard last week they were selling sheets on mini market I said pink ones and grey ones but I said not while they had the Christmas stuff in , it was before the Christmas stuff they must have taken them out you know I |
| 20 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
| 21 | As soon as they had a family got out , they rushed indoors with poles and burst out the slates near the ridge tree of the roof . |
| 22 | ‘ A programme like this might be all right if they had a proper documentary on the subject sometimes , but they do n't , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Specially where specially where they had the baby |
| 24 | funny it 's like cos they had the keyboard and that sort of rap beat it 's like , and all my kebabs are in salad cream , rap it on , stack it on , that 's my scene , gim me some kebab kebab gim me ages , wicked tune , I mean all these words |
| 25 | Police officers called at seventy seven year old Emilly Thomas 's home because they had an arrest warrant for her grandson James Bellamy , who was indide . |
| 26 | They would know more when they had the report from Ballistics . |
| 27 | The factories on the east bank of the Medway were even worse off as they had no direct railway outlet and also a poor road system . |
| 28 | New developments in the production of clothing and footwear , involving the manufacture of cheap commodities for a mass market , meant that people were better clothed and also that they had a purchase on ‘ style ’ — including , as we shall see , ‘ youth styles ’ . |
| 29 | They had to struggle bringing us up so they had no real time to bother about anything else . ’ |
| 30 | And also if they had a timber like that one there where they had obviously a joint in it , the position of the joint was marked . |