Example sentences of "they have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Family was Jim and the others ; family was her women 's group and squabbling at two-thirty in the morning about whether women could be said to constitute a separate class because they had a separate relation to the mode of production , while still making each other coffee and giving each other hugs . |
| 32 | Martin haycock says they had a terrific start and after that it was rythm rythm all the way |
| 33 | This has happened to the many theorists who thought they had a simple explanation for the confusion of thought which led to the surrender of judgment metaphor . |
| 34 | They had a mean score of 41 ( SD 16 ) , and this was used to define a normal value . |
| 35 | Bristol Mecca they had a bloody bomb scare and we had to tip out |
| 36 | They had a major boiler breakdown last night . |
| 37 | They had a major impact on the community , and attracted authority , wealth and prestige . |
| 38 | For up to then , even if the old buggers in the club were lewd , they had a certain style . |
| 39 | They had a certain prestige within the neighbourhood and influence within the world of football was part of this process of ‘ making good ’ . |
| 40 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |
| 41 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |
| 42 | They had a certain similarity , all of them , and they all lacked something , though most were very beautiful to look at . |
| 43 | If the benefits of large families were obvious in the Irish peasant society in which we had once had our roots , they had a certain value for us too ; they scored vital points on the council housing list . |
| 44 | But for all that they had a certain passion . |
| 45 | They had a tiny room on the ground floor lit by a small leaded window and heated by an open fire from which as much smoke seemed to blow into the room as went up the chimney . |
| 46 | From here , they had a marvellous view over Dennistoun and beyond . |
| 47 | Dunbar took Madeleine and they had a marvellous time , or so Aubrey said . ’ |
| 48 | There was , there was a programme on Channel Four there to I was watching before I picked my book up and they had Conservative Labour bloke and the independent er Liberals and these were supposedly they have on on er Channel Four a a programme called Week in Politics anyway this night , this , tonight they were doing a a fu , they had a floating audience , supposedly a floating audience |
| 49 | And because they had a stupid name and a fat bastard with glasses for a singer . |
| 50 | A host of chances went begging and they had a cracking goal from John Hartless ruled out for offside . |
| 51 | changing headmasters at his school and they had a terrible reputation one time . |
| 52 | And then he gave orders to Punch for tea to be prepared and they had a terrible time finding any china that was n't cracked or broken and then she went on working in the pantry as quiet as a mouse and she could hear you both talking as clear as clear . |
| 53 | Last year , however , they had a spectacular reconciliation , fell into each other 's arms , quaffed champagne and gave birth to a new double Fabris-Petrides certificate ( tariff : £250 for a drawing , £300 for a painting ) . |
| 54 | and Jenny was saying she went to Debenhams yesterday they had a twelve day spectacular at eight thirty to eight thirty at night there was clothes they were half price plus you got a third of ten per cent off . |
| 55 | At the start of 1992 there were 1,377 companies in the Extended HGSC Index ( excluding investment trusts ) and they had a total market capitalisation of £45bn . |
| 56 | In the second panel the same people , considerably sobered and looking as if they had a serious hangover , were being led away by the classic medieval figure of Death , a grisly skeleton in a black robe and cowl , who rather reminded Preston of an old schoolmaster he had known called Mr Pilkington . |
| 57 | Each man had grandiose visions , Neither was able to turn them into reality but , for better or for worse , they had a lasting impact on the Middle East . |
| 58 | Someone , a bit of a wag , said , ‘ Time they had a new stick to hit that there bell . ’ |
| 59 | They would have lists of all the people that had bought books from them or might have bought books from them in the past , categorized by where they live , the age of the person , the sex , the special interests , the past purchases , and then they would send out special books erm special letters , if they had a new doggie book coming out they might select all the ladies over fifty-five who had bought doggie books in the past . |
| 60 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |