Example sentences of "they had [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 2 | They had two sons of whom the elder , Henry ( 1606–56 , q.v. ) , was clerk of the House of Commons 1639–49 . |
| 3 | You know when all this court business is on , and they had two hours at recess so he went to look at the cathedral with Steven and mum mentioned it and , and she said oh I think I 'll go and have a look round she said when all this is over cos dad , suppose he 'll never set foot in Norwich again and I said oh that 's silly cos it 's a , it is a lovely city . |
| 4 | They had two rooms in which five of them lived … |
| 5 | ‘ We have already used them in two series at home — against India when they had two umpires from England and against the West Indies when both umpires were Indian . |
| 6 | The answer to this question was that they had other means of transport . |
| 7 | And they had other ways of raising money . |
| 8 | But they had other stresses like food shortages . |
| 9 | Well you know when they had all hooha about erm dig our |
| 10 | But they had all sorts of virtually now do n't they ? |
| 11 | They had all sorts of ones |
| 12 | Well they had one man in the hold and they used to have a fork lift in the hold , in Holland , with one man and he could do that job and they sent one man ashore , well over here we had four men in the hold and two men ashore . |
| 13 | They had one likeness of Oreste , sent at Christmas when Wilson had requested it should be taken , and this was removed from its frame and put at the end of the chart . |
| 14 | They discovered that they had one area of 4 m 2 and two of 3 m 2 . |
| 15 | And the farm has , last three years has lost a lot of money and er they had one farm at Colkirk which they 've now sold and er they just sort of decided they wanted to make the , they had a big barn , a big white barn which was a real old barn and he wanted to make that into a house . |
| 16 | They had one thing on their minds and she was it . |
| 17 | They had one thing in common . |
| 18 | After all , when I taught these secrets to my art students , they had one eye on their future interview . |
| 19 | The threat from the employers was paralleled by that from disgruntled seamen or former agents of the union who felt that they had personal grievances against Wilson or cherished ambitions to establish seamen 's organizations of their own . |
| 20 | They had five customers within minutes of opening up yesterday morning . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 22 | Yeah , well Mike it comes down to experience if they had five years of |
| 23 | They had much goods for Gairloch , and not a little to take on board . |
| 24 | When the French were here they had much freedom in the camp because they were sensible and did not try to escape . |
| 25 | They had four pints of beer each and a slap-up dinner in one of Huddersfield 's new swinging joints . |
| 26 | They had four days in which to find a replacement . |
| 27 | They had four children in Amsterdam , but only their sole daughter , Jane , survived . |
| 28 | In fact , they had great difficulty in producing a satisfactory list of categories , and had to revise it as work progressed . |
| 29 | Although the teachers were aware of this ‘ weapon ’ they had great difficulty in finding anything to attack it with . |
| 30 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |