Example sentences of "they have a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'ud be worse than useless telling them she thought the Cap'n 's slave had rights , needed care and attention and … and … she 'd better speak out before they 'd a chance to ask awkward questions ! |
| 2 | And then they 'd a fancy dress at Christmas , at Hogmanay . |
| 3 | On top of this , inevitably but it seems rather unfairly , they have to deal with the problem that faces every teacher in a new school : the fact that they do not know its geography , its structure and its rules , both explicit and unwritten , nor do they have a chance to get to know the personalities and quirks of more than a handful of either pupils or teachers . |
| 4 | Boy , do they have a surprise coming their way . |
| 5 | In no way do they have a mandate to wipe out a whole stock and possibly a whole species simply for their convenience in carrying on with an unsophisticated fishing method . ’ |
| 6 | They 've a tradition to uphold and the likes of Billy Boston , Eric Ashton and Brian McTigue would n't have acted like that . |
| 7 | And of course we keep their rooms for them as long as there 's any chance at all — it 's tremendously important that they should feel they 've a home to go back to . ’ |
| 8 | But now I think if someone buys something , then they 've a right to do with it what they will . |
| 9 | And — importantly — gives their companies everything they 've a right to expect . |
| 10 | But in Heartbreak Hotel , which has a real deep echo , they had a speaker set up at one end of this long hallway and a microphone at the other end , and a sign on the door saying ‘ DO N'T OPEN THE DOOR WHEN THE RED LIGHT IS ON ’ . |
| 11 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 12 | They just r r rammed their way and you had an man the they had a man they tell me I I 've never seen one But erm this was as far as I can make out er by the They had a man standing by you see with a a spanner and er gave it a quarter turn every time it hammered the the drill sort of hit the rock , went into the and hammered . |
| 13 | They had a goal dissallowed for offside about 10 minutes later . |
| 14 | As early as the first minute they had a goal disallowed . |
| 15 | Tonight we 're in the town of Kalgoorlie. 100 years ago , they had a gold rush here . |
| 16 | They had a sheet showing a car park and also cars to cut out . |
| 17 | Keighley were not keen to visit the Humbersiders on Saturday because they claim that they had a sponsor lined up for a home game . |
| 18 | That was my original they had a competition to look out for people who 've got ideas about this new idea , it was a ridiculous idea to do a competition cos people did n't know what they were entering for , half the parishes were n't notified about it , |
| 19 | That lunchtime they had told him their research was complete , but they had a day spare and were enjoying themselves . |
| 20 | A number of people were granted exemption on the grounds either that they were too poor to pay taxes and rates or that they had a certificate signed by the minister and parish officers to the effect that their premises were worth not more than 1 per annum or that their personal property was worth less than £10 per annum ; however , no exemption was allowed anyone possessing more than two hearths . |
| 21 | Julian had a humbler conception of her task than the other prophetic reformers I have mentioned , who all experienced God as an absolute imperative to action and felt that they had a mission to defy the religious and secular establishment of their day . |
| 22 | of course they had a problem had n't they ? |
| 23 | ‘ They sent two of our men off — and then they played for an extra ten minutes so that they had a chance to equalise . ’ |
| 24 | If there were rumours concerning herself and the new medical officer she wanted them quashed before they had a chance to spread . |
| 25 | Then he would ask the class if anyone had an answer , and before they had a chance to reply he would add " Mahaddie and I have arrived at this conclusion " . |
| 26 | Comrades struggled to get to grips with Bangor 's cavalier attacking play but they had a chance to pull one back on 31 minutes , Paul McGurnaghan threading the ball through the defence only for Davy Armstrong to screw his shot past the post . |
| 27 | He spoke in stories or parables , so that the simplest might understand if they had a heart to see and hear . |
| 28 | They had a band called Me and Him on . |
| 29 | Then they had a draughtsman prepare the plans and sub-contracted the building . |
| 30 | The society 's charitable project soon got round the underworld , and in January 1773 they had a card hung in Westminster Jail stating that their charity was likely to be imposed upon ‘ by artful and designing villains who cause themselves to be arrested and imprisoned a day before the Society makes a distribution and thus come in for relief designed for the Poor distressed debtors imprisoned for a long time . ‘ |