Example sentences of "[vb past] they have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
2 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
3 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
4 | the empire we allowed them to have British passports did n't we ? |
5 | Founded in 1937 by Erica Fiah , African trader and leader of the African Welfare and Commercial Association , the paper was initially a platform for that Association , and Fiah told his readers that effective improvement for Africans required them to have political power as well as economic and educational advancement . |
6 | As the denomination most solidly based in the countryside , they also realized they had little choice in the thousands of new streets with their red and yellow brick terraces that were covering England 's acres . |
7 | Many students realised they had little hope of going abroad and sought instead other escape routes from their situation . |
8 | Sky TV yesterday announced they have exclusive rights to show his championship challenge and , if successful , his first defence . |
9 | Mr Hook pointed out many of the Division One sides were concentrated round the south-east , which meant they had less travelling expenses . |
10 | They were helped by their post-war cost advantages — rapid reconstruction at home meant they had newer facilities than many of their competitors — but they were also pre-disposed towards exporting by the Allies ' confiscation of their pre-war overseas assets . |
11 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
12 | The majority of women workers were between 20 and 25 as the management felt they had fewer problems with young women . |
13 | It was felt inadvisable , for obvious reasons , to use the dementia sufferers as informants about their family , care or housing circumstances , but , in addition to the OBS and Depression scale questions , they were to be asked whether or not they felt they had sufficient company and adequate help at home . |
14 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
15 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
16 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
17 | She knew they had different fathers and she knew that in each case there was only a certain number of possibilities , but beyond that all was obscure . |
18 | They 're around 30 , some victims thought they had foreign accents . |
19 | They 're around 30 , some victims thought they had foreign accents . |
20 | Well we thought they had last time we went . |
21 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
22 | But I mean did they , did they have specific , erm did they , did they have that kind of idea about the type of light they wanted or |
23 | Did they have blue ones for children ? |
24 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
25 | What did they have last night ? |
26 | ‘ Just one more question , Miss Glynn : when your brother Alfred visited his mother while Inez was still with you , did they have any contact ? ’ |
27 | Erm while your children were here and going to school in , in and all that , did they have any instruction from , from the temple , any extra tuition in anything ? |
28 | Did they have any street entertainers around the market ? |
29 | ‘ Did they have any children ? ’ |
30 | ‘ Did they have any children ? ’ |