Example sentences of "and they have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made their own amusements , and she learnt to knit and they had long winter nights round the fire o and they used to go She used to call it , we used to go after day set , that she called evening . |
| 2 | And they had other leads now . |
| 3 | And they had other ways of raising money . |
| 4 | Fortunately experience had taught the Alliance to prepare for such an eventuality , and they had standby arrangements for distribution and press coverage which were brought into operation . |
| 5 | And they had drunk wine on the very steps of the pulpit and its precincts . |
| 6 | Most , like their predecessors , were armoured in some way , with heavy scales attached to bony plates in the skin , and they had fearsome teeth in their jaws . |
| 7 | The BEA engineers , in consultation with the boiler-makers , initially concentrated on alternative options for improving boiler reliability , and they had serious doubts about the manufacturers ' capacity to make reliable unit boilers with the higher postwar steam conditions , though gradually these were adopted after 1952 . |
| 8 | And they had especial value because the other evidence for the nature of primitive man , the ‘ manners and customs of modern savages ’ , was fast disappearing too . |
| 9 | They were the Bay City Rollers meets The Hammer Of The Gods — except they did n't dress crap and they had good hair . |
| 10 | Which you used to light with a taper or something like that and they had little chains on to adjust your light . |
| 11 | Mirfin 's , near the Trinity Street corner was a small greengrocers and they had secondhand books as a side line . |
| 12 | And they had willing collusion from the music press , including the NME , sadly . |
| 13 | And they had big rocket things and they were throwing them . |
| 14 | Well I mean I , I , when I joined in forty nine the , the fire uniform was n't all that much different except they had black helmets instead of yellow , and , and they had rubber boots and they did n't have the leggings we have , and so on now , but the walking-out uniform was the old army battledress died blue , that 's all it was . |
| 15 | There were no other petitioners waiting , and they had routine work to do . |
| 16 | They had economic power because they had control of the family money ; and they had psychological power because the entire outside world was made up of similar families ( in East Africa the Africans were socially invisible to Asians ) which respected and supported the concept of hierarchy . |
| 17 | And they had sufficient imagination to see that if the sea could curve one way , then it could curve the other way also . |
| 18 | They had a bed on the stage and they had red satin sheets on it |
| 19 | and they had white wine , or , er , red wine , and I went , oh have you got any lemonade . |
| 20 | But they were young , and they had considerable wit . |
| 21 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 22 | Oh no we had we had fresh meals for for ourselves and they had different meals for the for the gentlemen as well you know . |
| 23 | And they 'd good neighbours as well . |
| 24 | They can place children in homes run by voluntary organizations and make contributions to their costs , and they have certain powers to inspect voluntary homes . |
| 25 | Yes , and they have real consequences . |
| 26 | If in a potentially life threatening situation or one in which irreparable damage to the patient 's health is to be anticipated , doctors or hospital authorities are faced with a refusal by an adult patient to accept essential treatment and they have real doubts as to the validity of that refusal , they should in the public interest , not to mention that of their patient , at once seek a declaration from the courts as to whether the proposed treatment would or would not be lawful . |
| 27 | There are indeed , as I have already suggested , certain similarities between the two theories , and they have similar powers of deception and similar capacities for making mischief . |
| 28 | Talk to anyone involved in the scene and they have similar stories . |
| 29 | These nobles wear exotically decorated armour and carry tall lances , and they have distinctive back banners adorned with feathers . |
| 30 | The said partnership is for economic strategy planning and they have current consultancy projects in what was the USSR , and the one of the three I have known for years , as he shared a Lothian Regional council office with our former upstairs neighbour , lovely now in lake district is off to Moscow next Monday and then to another city ( ? sp ) six thousand miles east of Moscow ! |