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

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1 After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone Park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them .
2 After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them .
3 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 .
4 I never work because it was a small workshop that I worked in and in the south side where I belonged , there was an awful lot of Polish people and Jews and they had all these wee furniture places and they made up There was quite a community you know , they were had wee workshops and cabinet makers and my boss was a Latvian .
5 They are still a great club and they had several internationals out there . ’
6 They waltzed round in the car and they had this brown loaf warm out of the oven for me .
7 They even , praise be , asked skiers at the end of the day whether they had enjoyed the experience , hopefully so that they could take positive action if they had any complaints or worthwhile suggestions .
8 For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists .
9 This week 's gathering at Greenmount College brought together some of the best brains on the poultry scene and they had much to impart to the industry .
10 I went into New Look and they had some lovely things in there this morning !
11 Bergkamp equalised for Ajax a minute after the interval although they had several opportunities to add to their score .
12 Bowler hat , little moustache and spats and when you came through the shed , my God , nobody slacked cos he had eyes everywhere and the Traffic Superintendent was , he was directly responsible to him erm then erm retired and erm then retired during the war and they had another fella come in from he came from away .
13 The win took the Republic back up to second place in the Group behind Spain on goal difference but they had enough chances to close the six-goal gap on the pace-setters .
14 In Stafford , soldiers were forbidden from bring their families into the town unless they had enough funds to keep them for a quarter of a year , due to the large number of camp followers registering for charity .
15 Moreover , it is also possible that management took the view that unskilled workers could be controlled more easily than skilled workers because they had less powerful union backing , and that they could be replaced more easily because there was a bigger pool of labour to draw from .
16 To both later historians and eleventh century knights it appeared that ‘ truth ’ was intrinsic to the kind of evidence that they had both , in their different ways , been socialised into respecting .
17 But police warned last night that they had little chance of tracing the rest .
18 11am The Government Commissioners came on board to ask every person if they had any complaints to make for the treatment during the voyage .
19 PEOPLE enjoying an evening out in Edinburgh pubs , clubs and restaurants were asked by police last night if they had any information about two men involved in the fatal stabbing early last Saturday of a student , Paul Sheldon .
20 I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off ,
21 In the first case , this is how the choice appeared for people considering a £1,000 loan once they had all the information ( both ‘ total repayment ’ and ‘ APR ’ were explained ) :
22 Now as a national organizer all the branches in your area if they had any complaints or anything that they wanted attending to used to write to their national organizer and I used to visit and deal with their complaints .
23 Sixty two only , you know , not that long after the War had ended and to the lament that nobody got killed you know you might have had more chances e of success if they had all got killed .
24 Erm a and f at first we had one or two people coming in , but then it , it , it dr it dropped off very quickly , and after about three months , I think , we decided we were n't getting enough take-up , w that we would not have the sessions in the flats any more , but that we would encourage people to come to the Law Centre if they had any problems .
25 Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse .
26 Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself .
27 A hundred years before Elizabeth came to the throne no member of the human race had ever been in a position to make a map of the whole world ; civilizations had risen and flourished in different regions of the world but they had little or no idea of their geographical relationship to one another .
28 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 .
29 The shorter men were more at risk because they had less efficient lung function compared with the taller men , according to the researchers at The Royal Free Hospital , north London .
30 Of course before they had any evidence on what the situation was in Donegal , the Minister for Energy had already told the Dail that the NEB had informed him that there was no evidence that prospecting would be hazardous .
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