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

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1 She remembered the difficulties they 'd had repairing Starlings after the war , when you could n't get a brick or a plank of wood , not even if you was royalty ; and she remembered comforting Nell as each granddaughter left home .
2 A large number of dogs who end up in the rescue homes would be on the vet 's euthanasia list if they 'd had different owners .
3 Out of the three statements from fellow travellors read out to the coroner , non said they 'd had previous warnings from either the travel company or the foreign office that the region they were in had experienced previous Muslim fundamentalist acts of terrorism against visitors .
4 They 've had different syllabuses at school and masters have in fact omitted large chunks of the syllabus to get better results in the parts that they concentrate on , so you can not assume that everybody has adequate abilities .
5 Oh well , that sounds like everybody else , cos I was just saying to Ann that Ian and erm Martin they 've had high temperatures and
6 They 've had high points before , will they ever really make that elusive breakthrough to power ?
7 But police here say they 've had growing problems in regulating the tide and have even ordered groups of refugees to return to the border post to allow time to clear bottlenecks further down the five hundred mile route to the Red Sea port of Aqaba .
8 From Asmar 's reports , I knew that some of them were into arms trafficking as well as dope and that meant they had to have close ties with Syrian-supported terrorist groups like the PFLP — GC .
9 They had had occasional disputes as all families do but none had been damaging .
10 They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine .
11 as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here .
12 Indeed , it now seemed to be the case that men did not marry women unless they had had sexual relations with them beforehand .
13 Yeah well cos you see they have to , most of their fans are women so they have to have female bodyguards cos the males are a bit rough with them but the women are really tough who
14 They get advice from the officers of the Local Education Authority , so there 's a number of people who are running things , if you like to put it that way , and they have to have good relationships erm and I must say that erm I have n't seen anything obstructive , particularly on our Board of Governors , from local Councillors and we 've had nothing but help from Local Education Authority officers , and I 'm glad we 're not going to lose that help .
15 Their chemical and isotopic compositions are meteoritic and they have had long histories of flight through space .
16 The creations are totally different and have some dissimilar effects but both creations have not been controlled by their creators so they have had disastrous consequences .
17 They have had unfortunate childhoods in which they have been neglected and brutalised .
18 Some people are very mistrustful of machines , perhaps because they have had bad experiences with them and are therefore nervous about using them .
19 They have had different offices and different staff .
20 Their views are balanced , their visions diverse , but they have had interesting lives both here and abroad , and have each , in different measure contributed to society over and beyond their work ( one of my yardsticks of measuring people because of the effort involved ) .
21 Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet .
22 This alteration was observed in the patient 's mother and maternal grandmother ( lanes 5 and 1 , respectively ) , who are obligate carriers as both of them have had affected sons .
23 By the same token , I can not help wondering what will be the result of a survey among half the 2,500 members of the British Psychological Society to establish how many of them have had sexual relations with their clients .
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