Example sentences of "[adv] they have a [adj] " 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 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 .
3 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 …
4 For example , somebody might erm be homeless , but no hostel in town will take them on because perhaps they have a mental illness or a drug problem , or perhaps they are in trouble with the courts erm we can return to that hostel with the person saying ‘ Do n't worry about these other problems , just fill in the bits you can , the accommodation , and we 'll sort out the other bits ’ .
5 So they had a big argument downstairs , this woman plod and the others and I said to John : ‘ Look .
6 So they have a higher income .
7 So they have a wide tax base and they can generate large sums of money if they , if they choose to do so and in different states there 's a different culture , a different attitude towards public spending and taxation and so on .
8 Yeah , quite a high one so they have a big dam to give a good head water , a good height of water , and that water comes Drops down through quite a quite a height , and then they have a turbine sort of force it into a turbine with a turbine and it really spins that turbine th that 's joined top the alternator and makes the electricity .
9 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 .
10 Early astronomers did not have telescopes to assist their observations , but nevertheless they had a full knowledge of the skies .
11 Normally they had a second soprano in the wings for the high D flat at the end .
12 it was just they had a big warehouse
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 This is because classically they have a well-defined location at a particular instant whose specification is part of what is involved in saying that they are in the same state of motion .
16 Now they had a smart restaurant in Blackheath , another in Knightsbridge , and a chain of pizza houses .
17 Their crown was peddled around Europe and now they have a German Royal family — including a quite absurd Queen who writes sentimental novels .
18 Now they have a few quid and the rent money goes to Leeds council anyway , they want to ‘ get shut ’
19 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 .
20 Mostly they have a dry hacking cough with morning expectoration , increasing to a most violent , gagging cough with vomiting and a sensation as if their head would burst or fly to pieces .
21 now if you go along the coast road and it 's , you look at the lamp post right they have a little white circle with a black line in it
22 But they nowadays they have a full coming over .
23 Sometimes they are black holes , sometimes they have a terrible red light … ‘
24 But they lost several of the forty seconds through sheer surprise , then they had a technical problem .
25 And then they had a dumb waiter from er the main office to and and Robert 's office and and did not suffer fools gladly either .
26 Flushed and triumphant after this orgy of extravagance , they left the store at last , keeping an eye on the time because Mabel must n't be late with the boys ' tea whatever happened and then they had a long , annoying wait at the bus-stop .
27 That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one .
28 A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went .
29 They have a violent film then they have a violent advert .
30 The new owners of Oxford United admit that if it 's proved , then they have a moral obligation to pay the money back .
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