Example sentences of "they have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They had a major boiler breakdown last night . |
| 32 | They had a major impact on the community , and attracted authority , wealth and prestige . |
| 33 | For up to then , even if the old buggers in the club were lewd , they had a certain style . |
| 34 | They had a certain prestige within the neighbourhood and influence within the world of football was part of this process of ‘ making good ’ . |
| 35 | Villains they might be , but they had a certain code of practice and the rule was that you looked after your own kind . |
| 36 | FBI spokesman Bob Ricks said : ‘ I believed from the very beginning they had a certain time agenda . |
| 37 | They had a certain similarity , all of them , and they all lacked something , though most were very beautiful to look at . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | But for all that they had a certain passion . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | From here , they had a marvellous view over Dennistoun and beyond . |
| 42 | Dunbar took Madeleine and they had a marvellous time , or so Aubrey said . ’ |
| 43 | 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 |
| 44 | And because they had a stupid name and a fat bastard with glasses for a singer . |
| 45 | A host of chances went begging and they had a cracking goal from John Hartless ruled out for offside . |
| 46 | changing headmasters at his school and they had a terrible reputation one time . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 ) . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Someone , a bit of a wag , said , ‘ Time they had a new stick to hit that there bell . ’ |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |
| 55 | They had a new machine in , but after a pound or so I had mastered it and won an extra spaceship . |
| 56 | But they had a new headmaster oh he 's just retired , he 's been there been there since Lynn was there when since she was since the er she 's twice that age so I mean he must have been there eighteen years but when he went there he 's er totally the school from the word go |
| 57 | They had a new car , and went to the cinema and ate out . |
| 58 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |
| 59 | An hour later , standing in the darkness , so far from having the fourth murder in a series , they had a new killing : one which was superficially like the others , but whose only real resemblance lay in the infliction of one particular wound , and the manner and location in which the body was laid out after death . |
| 60 | The morning crew were a little surprised to find they had a new colleague but none of them was unduly perturbed by the intrusion . |