Example sentences of "they have [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Oh no , they 'd just a pony .
2 You , you , you , you , girls used to get married in those days , and they were extremely innocent , they 'd really no idea at all .
3 Now maybe the person that ran the book did n't really need to use all that , so at at the end of a a year , say for instance , they 'd quite a bit of money lying on that that black book .
4 That one 's a bit later date , and you can see that they 've double the track here .
5 Well actually I live just outside Shilton. erm they keep saying that it 's Shilton airfield , actually it 's not on the airfield at all — as you will know , Mr. Hayworth 's got planning permission for a golf course on the airfield — it 's Scrubs Lane , Shilton , and actually they 've already the Council have already turned down two applications for caravan sites there anyway erm because it 's unsuitable and yet they think that they you know that it 's going to be suitable for gipsies to live down there .
6 ‘ Easy , ’ I replied , ‘ You see , the things about the Americans is that they 've absolutely no CLAAAARSE . ’
7 When we move in here , we get this guy come along to look at it , he say well this machine the er the Germans erm they 've really the pump is th is really easy to go , and so I can change your pump for you but l in your washing machine washing machine .
8 They 've certainly the engine of it .
9 Well he 's obvious they 've obviously the group has bought it and he 's got it and he 's gon na say do you want to buy
10 They had effectively no verification of recoverability .
11 Further , many could not afford to undertake such pomp as they had neither the capital , credit facilities , stock , staff nor expertise ; some simply did not have the inclination to become involved .
12 If any of them had displayed a leaning towards the stage , Dinah would no doubt have encouraged it ; but they had neither the presence nor the voice , nor , she would think despairingly , looking round them all , the appearance ; every one was Paul over again .
13 Whatever the law might hold , no one could argue that the methods used by Esmail and Everington amounted to fraud , in so far as they had neither the intention nor the potential to gain an advantage .
14 These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for .
15 More than that , she positively hoped it would annoy ; boring , grumpy men like this one deserved to be annoyed ; they had absolutely no idea how to enjoy themselves .
16 They had absolutely no right , no possible justification .
17 They had absolutely no right to meddle with his plans in this way .
18 They had quite a reputation for sailing close to the wind .
19 They had quite a lot of sa er glassware erm on er half price .
20 They had quite a lot of money last week .
21 Probably because they had quite a lot left over and did n't
22 The glow through , er yes the paper was erm , was the same colour all the way through and er , and erm they had quite an impact , but of course they , would only last a year or two er and er they started a small factory in London and , erm call it Hula-Hoops I think er , I do n't know whether Hula-Hoops came from the lighting shades or the lighting shades from the Hula-Hoops , but it was the same process that made them both and er this was erm thin plastic tubing brightly coloured , er which was er cemented together into er
23 Ironically , at the time both were leading such hectic lives that even though they were both still living at the family home in Melbourne they had almost no time to spend together .
24 And also if they had a timber like that one there where they had obviously a joint in it , the position of the joint was marked .
25 They had virtually no contact with the Shah .
26 so they had like an hour break so I spent in a room .
27 well have they got to get rid of staff or not ? , cos the school that Gary 's at now they had like an emergency meeting on Monday
28 Interviews with doctors who practise euthanasia have shown that they resort to LAWER when they have neither the courage nor cruelty to talk openly with patients , relatives , or colleagues .
29 Similarly economic policy-makers in the UK and the USA choose policies which satisfy their aspiration levels ; they can not ‘ fine tune ’ the economy because they have neither the information nor the theory to do so ( Mosely , 1984 ) .
30 When learners are caught up in communication , concerned with making meaning , they have neither the time nor indeed the inclination to monitor their performance , which in consequence reveals what they have acquired without , as it were , the artificial additives of learning .
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