Example sentences of "they have [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can they be adjusted for height ; do they have firm back supports ? |
| 2 | He says they 've other towns to look at . |
| 3 | Who , who if they 've cold feet lies awake , till they warm up ? |
| 4 | Of course they would mourn for Renascia and remember all of the good things about it , only just now they had other things to concentrate on . |
| 5 | The fact that they had contentious articles written with a fearless pungency seems to have been due to his joint editorship of both . |
| 6 | They had wide powers to arrest persons suspected of committing such crimes as theft , burglary , and serious assault . |
| 7 | After school my father used to accompany him on his rounds in the car , and during these journeys they had ample time to exchange ideas without being overheard . |
| 8 | The monopolistic merchants found that they had insufficient capital to advance the loans required ; there was much evasion of the monopolies ; and the export trade itself was disrupted by the crown 's impressment of merchant shipping for war , and its political pressures on Flanders . |
| 9 | The Germans were now faced with an insoluble strategic problem , perceived but not resolved by von Schlieffen : they had insufficient strength to wheel west of Paris and subdue it . |
| 10 | Those hardy souls in the present century who ignore the mysteries and regard themselves as random atoms , moving purposelessly in a world of blind chance , must necessarily behave differently from those who , like so many in the nineteenth century , believed that they inhabited an ordered world in which they had moral duties to perform , even if these were obscurely glimpsed and seldom accomplished . |
| 11 | It was last week , they had normal week did n't they ? |
| 12 | Because the slave traders were brought up in the belief that every word of the Holy Bible was inspired by God , they honestly thought that they had divine sanction to enslave blacks . |
| 13 | In fact they had unpaid bills amounting to £256,000 on which they were only able to pay 2s 9d in the pound ; their London agents , Hurst & Robinson , only managed 1s 3d on a debt of £300,000 . |
| 14 | Moreover , the Germans had no desire to be saddled with more of BAOR 's sector of the front : they had enough on their hands under-pinning the Dutch and Belgian corps , whose military worth they had good reasons to doubt in the late 1950s . |
| 15 | They had good reason to support Abram , since their own people had been victims of the attack . |
| 16 | When they arrived at the house , they saw a man whom they had good reason to suppose to be the assailant washing blood from himself . |
| 17 | If the security services were so concerned about this then it clearly suggests that they had good reason to believe that Blake had not been forgotten by the Russians . |
| 18 | It was only a one-sided lock , which is completely and totally different to an ordinary lock er working both sides , you see what I mean and er I er I 'd got to er make a key , number thirty-nine just like that , see but I had it and I could find out what thirty-nine was and I could make them one and send it and knowing it would fit see and er when they had different people working there , you know staff , things like that , not a lot of orders but er somebody else come . |
| 19 | Again , a story in Thucydides ( v.45 ) shows that the Council hears foreign ambassadors before the Assembly does ( Alcibiades persuades a Spartan delegation , after their first audience , which was with the Council , to deny at their later audience with the Assembly that they had full powers to treat with Athens ) . |
| 20 | Mr Major signalled it was business as usual when he welcomed new Welsh Secretary John Redwood at the morning 's Cabinet and told ministers they had important issues to deal with . |
| 21 | Announcing the delay on Nov. 9 , Head of State Amadou Toumani Touré said that preparations for the conference were behind schedule but added that the delay would give the rebel movements time to ensure they had proper representation to make credible commitments at the conference . |
| 22 | I VISITED the top secret Battle of the Atlantic command centre in Rumford Street and was very impressed , but I feel it would be even more interesting if they had dummy figures dressed in naval and wrens ' uniforms and placed in their respective positions . |
| 23 | Oh no they had single beds did n't they ? |
| 24 | As farmers who concentrated on stock-rearing and , increasingly , on dairying , they had sufficient resources to survive but rarely had the means to expand their activities . |
| 25 | And they had sufficient imagination to see that if the sea could curve one way , then it could curve the other way also . |
| 26 | And then , unless they had sufficient funds to buy several stocks , they might not be spreading their investment sufficiently . |
| 27 | But whether or not they had sufficient power to exert real influence on state policy , the monarchs were justified in considering themselves the most important persons on the European political stage . |
| 28 | His Lordship concluded that the company could restrain the receivers from proceeding further when they had sufficient assets to redeem the receivership , and if there was a serious issue to be tried as to whether that point had been reached , then an injunction could be granted . |
| 29 | They had true grievances to settle and were ready to lay down their lives for vengeance . |
| 30 | There were no other petitioners waiting , and they had routine work to do . |