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

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1 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 .
2 They 'd all had kids before .
3 They 'd always had secrets , those two .
4 They 've already had success in getting across their message , with a previous best seller ; The Diary of A Teenage Health Freak .
5 They 've already had trouble with vandals planting glass in the field .
6 The agents dealing with the sale of the mill say that they 've already had inquiries about the site , for a number of uses .
7 They 've probably had words before now . ’
8 who got babe , they 've only had car a month
9 Generations of schoolchildren have smoked furtively , behind the bikesheds , or in the cloakrooms … but they 've never had school approval … until now .
10 They 've never had people like barks or tells .
11 They 've recently had trouble with the Ixmariters , concerning a child . ’
12 They 've always had links with industry and commerce , but over the last few years they 've recognised the need to develop and publicise their links .
13 They had n't had gas in their last room .
14 Course , they had n't had lorries in them days , they drive them on the road and you see old shepherd coming along with a couple of dogs and goodness knows how many sheep !
15 What was the reason for the growth between eighteen hundred and eighteen fifty because they had n't had sort of mass industrialization industrialization which had caused population growth in other countries so was there any particular reason why there 's should have trebled in that time ?
16 It was obvious they had already had plenty to drink .
17 But they had not had time to implement then when , on 1 February 1979 , the ayatollah returned to Teheran in triumph like Lenin to the Finland Station .
18 Det Insp Wayne Williams , of Wrexham CID , said yesterday they had now had confirmation by fax that he is ready for collection .
19 None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together .
20 What we were trying to say is there is actually a place and my Right Honourable Friend thinks that there is and indeed so do I , for people to contribute to the problem of policing in their locality who have n't necessarily for one reason or another and my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw said , decided not to erm be on the police authority , maybe they have n't had time , maybe there has n't been their , their particular but nevertheless they do know and they do care about their locality and they have got a er er a contribution to make and we think that that would actually improve the local the police authorities , provided that they are not in an overwhelming position and that is the reason why we 've suggested that eight erm t er , er , er o of a police authority of sixteen , eight should be councillors in the majority , five should be independents and three should be er er er magistrates and My Lords and then of course the complaint was ah , but then some people may not be properly represented and the number ought to be larger .
21 For those tha who are not to familiar with , the initials P P G , it stands for planning policy guidance , and there are a whole series of these guidance notes produced by the Department of the Environment for the er advice guidance of , well not only the local planning authorities but anyone else who is interested in the development business , and they are expressions of , I suppose government policy , er and their attitudes towards various aspects , whether it 's countryside , housing , trans or transport , and they do pro provide a useful backcloth , in fact an extremely valuable backcloth to the way in which er this matter should be considered , erm I know from the submission which North Yorkshire County Council have used they would say that the fact they have n't had regard to all this er , but I would like to carry on the discussion against that background , and could you direct your thinking at this stage about the need for a new settlement in the light of the principles spelt out in P P G three and particularly paragraph thirty three .
22 Your mother used to say men are such babies because they have n't had babies .
23 So try to regulate how many drinks of cola and pop your children drink in a day , and encourage them to have milk and pure fruit juices instead — although you should check the list of ingredients on fruit juice cartons , too , to make sure they have n't had sugar added .
24 And erm they have n't had Thomas does n't remember not having Harry around
25 If they stammer and say they have not had time , the Chairman smiles icily and says that the committee fully understands and is sure that the reports will be available at the next meeting .
26 This kind of ability is both envied and disparaged by many Continental musicians , and it can not be doubted that professional English singers often perform music which they have not had time to ‘ learn ’ in any sense of the term that a European singer would accept .
27 Although they have always had responsibility for trainees , this is to be made more formal within the framework of the basic training common core .
28 Somehow ‘ Carlsson ’ does n't quite cut the mustard like Porsche 's ‘ Carrera ’ , but these are the first of the company 's production-line cars to have a name — like BMWs , they have always had numbers — and as the man at Saab said , at least you can pronounce it .
29 They have always had the technology , They have always had control over what goes out , what messages were received by the public without their conscious awareness .
30 They have always had the technology , They have always had control over what goes out , what messages were received by the public without their conscious awareness .
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