Example sentences of "[vb base] they have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I want them to have some privacy . ’
2 We expect them to have some degree of self-awareness , and self-regard , in their knowledge claims .
3 This is how you realise they have different origins .
4 The workers say they 've little chance of getting another job .
5 It may have been costly , but those in charge say they had little choice .
6 We are part way through a randomised multi-centre control trial of rehabilitation and the majority of physicians collaborating say they have insufficient time to review all their patients after discharge , after this aggressive therapy of 3 or 4 days in hospital .
7 Neither the family of Kingsley Sam nor the police say they have any idea why he was shot .
8 Marje says : ‘ I think I 'm not so different from my readers , who write and say they have brutal husbands , and how they are beaten night after night by drunken swine who abuse them in every way and yet they still go on living with them .
9 According to a survey carried out by Brylcreem , 43% of British men say they have sensitive skin .
10 German prosecutors say they have enough information to investigate GM 's complaints that Mr Lopez , and other senior executives who defected , took secret documents with them to VW .
11 So let them have one boyl Then glass them .
12 Member states will them have 18 months to transfer the directive 's requirements into national law .
13 The bouncers at Lord Tom 's disco bar maintain they have little trouble .
14 But the meditators maintain they have scientific proof that it does work and they can bring peace to a troubled world .
15 The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from
16 the erm , you know they had some sausage left over , so I thought if I cook them then you know , if you wanted to we could cook the ham
17 erm , but actually near the erm near the bridge the the large roundabout before you go over the Gateshead bridge erm underneath that there 's a subway and what have you there 's shops in there , there 's a little shop in there that th that used to do these rolls and beautiful rolls , any bread you wanted , any filling you wanted you know they have vast variety of different fillings you know , and it was all there in these erm show cases , and we used to go down there and get a sandwich , take it back to the place where we was you know , this conference centre and erm it was great and then course when we got back
18 Walters added : ‘ We know they have weak links .
19 Walters added : ‘ We know they have weak links .
20 Walters added : ‘ We know they have weak links .
21 But the females compete for males because the male has a pouch literally on the front of his , of his belly , you know what a sea horse looks like , he looks like a horse actually , not surprisingly , you know they have this kind of , they have a kind of tail and they have this kind of pouch .
22 That 's why I 'm a little worried it 's that , you know they have three questions , so one quest one hour for each .
23 APS offers businesses a full range of options that allow them to have total control over when and how payments are made .
24 was the Well I suppose they had first claim in .
25 In other words , sticking to those sectors that we know and understand and which we chose for the nineties because we believe they had good growth prospects .
26 SCIENTISTS believe they have new evidence to strengthen a suspected link between Epstein-Barr virus and Hodgkin 's disease , a cancer of the lymph nodes .
27 The neighbourhood culture workshops specially promoted by her predecessor apparently feel they have insufficient support from her , although in fact only three out of seventy workshops have been scrapped .
28 This fact tends to make full-time reserve police very cautious in their behaviour , for they feel they have less opportunity to ease , which further means that their opinion of some regulars is not good .
29 But I think it may be more appropriate if I actually met with say the management committee as opposed to myself yes I 'm quite happy to do that to meet any individual or group who feel they have some concerns they wish to discuss and I give that I give that assurance this evening .
30 The nature of stress is simple enough — practically everyone would agree that the first syllable of words like ‘ father ’ , ‘ open ’ , ‘ camera ’ is stressed , that the middle syllable is stressed in ‘ potato ’ , ‘ apartment ’ , ‘ relation ’ and that the final syllable is stressed in ‘ about ’ , ‘ receive ’ , ‘ perhaps ’ , and most people feel they have some sort of idea of what the difference is between stressed and unstressed syllables , though they might explain it in many different ways .
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