Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] have [art] " in BNC.

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1 Having located the house , he had roared into Belfast and met Mallachy at the Wellington Park , where they 'd had a pint of Guinness beneath the photos of the famous actors .
2 More than half of the 2,000 nurses surveyed said changes to staffing levels where they worked had a detrimental impact on the quality of care .
3 erm people were starting to move out , and I think that , I think quite a lot of people , well although they 'd had a lot of information from the Local Authority , were still very unsure about how that would affect other benefits , in particular supplementary benefits , and single payments , and that , that , grants for , for the furniture , that kind of thing .
4 However this radicalization in land policy had allowed them to defeat the K M T and essentially led them to get into power so one has elements of pragmatism in their ideology and that how that you 've got to realize that the Communist Party was in a very precarious situation throughout these years , that how that although they did have a kind of er policy in th there ultimate aim of socialism , and although it seare appeared s quite strange that they were almost promoting capitalism , that how that their aim during this period was to eliminate feudalism which was the s and then to establish capitalism in order that socialism could take place .
5 But I never ever had a running line , although they did have an order for so many like that and I 'd keep the patterns and the gages and if they wanted any more later on , you know , I used to do that sort of thing for the sake of me customers and all that .
6 Once they 'd had a conversation on two levels , from street to first-floor window ; it had been in April ; on the second occasion he 'd visited her in the afternoon , for a walk along the canal .
7 ‘ They used to pull my leg , but once they 'd had a go they soon changed their minds . ’
8 Conservative Members did not wait to find out whether people would vote for that courage and conviction , but bundled out the then Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) pretty quickly once they had had the encouragement of a Liberal Democrat by-election win and the exposure of the divisions by the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East .
9 Throckmorton said that after he had spoken in the House against the Act in Restraint of Appeals , he had been praised by Fisher and two other clerics , Nicholas Wilson and Richard Reynolds [ qq.v. ] , who told him that he need not persevere with such speeches if they seemed to have no effect , but that his example might be of value to others .
10 See if they got have the yeah , the linesman he 's an arsehole , the linesman !
11 If they 'd had a cook !
12 Even if they 'd had a formal partnership , which they did n't , it would have made no difference .
13 And if they 'd had a row , you could hear him .
14 The Indians had taken the radio telephones ( they 'd have gone off with the genny if they 'd had a crane ) and Caracas thought they 'd just broken down again so came as per normal .
15 ‘ I feel women are pushed out of hospital , just as if they 'd had a minor operation , or a very mild illness . ’
16 If they 'd had a key , they would n't have been so careless as to leave it open , would they ? ’
17 I did ask if they 'd had a nice meal , but Lisabeth just ‘ harrumphed ’ so I dropped the subject and told them instead that I was going to meet Duncan and collect Salome 's car .
18 Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ?
19 that 's what I mean if they 'd had a good whistler he kept instead of her , could n't he ?
20 I meant to ask if they 'd had the go-karts nicked and I forgot .
21 No , I mean , it would have been fantastic if they 'd had the cash to just get on would n't it ?
22 Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now .
23 They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions .
24 No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation .
25 The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route .
26 Erm the point I made to them , that everybody round that table , if they did have a problem that they thought was urgent , they should get on the phone to the , you know , Steve and
27 If they did have an effect , it was in a negative direction discouraging long-term planning ( Fine and Harris , 1985 ) .
28 I mean they at least they could pick you up cos they 'd had the log book .
29 The heavier atomic bits — the stuff that goes to make up the planets — they had to wait until later until they 'd had a chance to be built up .
30 They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so .
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