Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Jeanette told how in the early hours of that day she had gone with Nichol to a nearby beauty spot and they tried unsuccessfully to have sex . |
| 2 | Crushes were all very well , they 'd all had crushes since they were seven , but Sam was nearly seventeen , and Camille could see her childhood slipping away . |
| 3 | They 'd all had kids before . |
| 4 | They 'd always had secrets , those two . |
| 5 | The 1975 Lyceum concerts were not the first Walters shows in London , but the impact with which they hit still has implications for reggae today . |
| 6 | It does little for the already low standing of politicians in the public esteem for Major to say effectively that they did not have plans to raise taxes then and they only did it because it was necessary . |
| 7 | A pity they did not have TV to show us Christmas cattle grazing the Alpine pastures . |
| 8 | The liquidator does not know of the existence of stock records in support of £50,620 , and XY Ltd , in taking over the stock , stated they did not have schedules/lists which would enable them to identify what they took over . |
| 9 | They did not have electricity , it would be oil lamps and some of them I can not mind when gas would come . |
| 10 | They did not have hair , but trailing fronds of leaves and bracken . |
| 11 | They did not have Ælfheah 's relics , and no doubt lacked Christ Church 's enthusiasm for them . |
| 12 | For example , if someone says that they did not have time to read the material and asks for a summary from the author or chairman , politely refuse . |
| 13 | They did not have time to destroy the ship 's logbook and this , combined with the testimony of the survivors , was evidence enough for Eck and those of the crew who had carried out the shooting to be arrested and tried by court-martial . |
| 14 | As for the countryside , the main complaint of the wage labourer was of underemployment and at certain seasons of the agricultural calendar many of them must have wished they did not have time on their hands . |
| 15 | Unfortunately " they did not have information on any program which would de with a small issue of some 500 items . |
| 16 | Yet the last in the little series of stories about the ark would have recalled to their minds the story of chapter 4 , and would have reminded them that though they were irrevocably , for better for worse , for richer for poorer , the people of God , they did not have God in their pocket , and could never keep him there . |
| 17 | Hitherto , police and local authorities thought that they did not have power to deal with it adequately . |
| 18 | Women did not qualify for a ‘ family wage ’ since it was assumed ( erroneously in some cases ) that they lived at home with parents or relatives and that they did not have dependants to support financially . |
| 19 | At other times they did not have transport and so did not travel . |
| 20 | And when I first went to the business , they did n't have fruit like they have now , everyday you know . |
| 21 | And then you can put over here office blocks , flats , they did n't have flats pre sixties not till thought of it . |
| 22 | The others looked at me oddly ; they did n't have bulimics in their group — that was a different matter . |
| 23 | Now the sides of the hold and the , the chains used go down , they did n't have wires they had chains go down and with a big ring on the top and then when you 'd the door out , knock the pin out and the door would drop down the mud and cos the ship would come up because she got two side tanks on er a tank each side to bring the ship out of the water . |
| 24 | The Famous Five did n't swear and , as far as we know , they did n't have sex . |
| 25 | Er no they did n't have tablecloths , no , er in the dining room of course |
| 26 | Raymond : Because they would die if they did n't have water . |
| 27 | U-boat alley was the gap in mid-Atlantic where they did n't have air cover from Britain or Canada , but Preston always imagined it a bit like the alley at the back of their houses with a U-boat at each end firing torpedoes at Grandad as he hopped and scuttled down it on his way to the Turk 's Head . |
| 28 | Soon , though , we hit a Catch-22 : I could get funding for more equipment if there was a ‘ group ’ organised , but no village women wanted to be organised if they did n't have machines . |
| 29 | They did n't have visitors because it sent him into a fury . |
| 30 | The islanders did n't have money then , and as they did n't have money they did n't know what ‘ poor ’ meant . |