Example sentences of "they had [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I knew the kind of complaints they had about the flats . |
| 2 | He has urged Unionist politicians to persuade their supporters to give the police any information they had about the terrorists . |
| 3 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |
| 4 | Everything she hated was white : that slice of custard just now ; these little stones hard as sugared almonds at a christening ; the cones of rice , curly as white hyacinths , floating in a sea of whipped egg white , that they had as a supper treat ; the damask of the tablecloth that her sweaty palms would soil ; the chilly marble of the fireplace in the white salon ; the glistening pearls of tapioca that lurked at the bottom of soup . |
| 5 | In summary , it would appear that the non-respondents as a group differed from the respondents mainly with regard to the more negative feelings they had towards the Oxfordshire scheme . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you notice what they had above the fireplace ? ’ |
| 7 | He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution . |
| 8 | They threw everything they had at the Swindon goal , but Hammond stopped the lot . |
| 9 | the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail . |
| 10 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 11 | They both headed the list with the responsibilities they had at the time . |
| 12 | The memories they described in response to the stimulus were highly specific and no longer consciously recollected ; on experiencing the memory they also relived the feelings they had at the time . |
| 13 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 14 | We must be cautious , though , in making the assumption that such words as ‘ king ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ Messiah ’ still convey to us the meaning which they had at the time and in the world of Jesus . |
| 15 | Two boys were fondling a large panting dog they had on a lead . |
| 16 | ‘ I was particularly impressed by the easy-to-understand literature they had on the subject and the lady behind the counter was able to give me instant advice . ’ |
| 17 | Everything they had on the balcony got smeared with tar because the floor of it had been macadamed . |
| 18 | ‘ It was as though the clouds stopped over Helston and dumped everything they had on the town . ’ |
| 19 | Most likely they would proceed no further than they had with the identification of ‘ Subject A ’ , especially since there was no one ( apart from themselves ) to miss her and she had never been missed . |
| 20 | I had not seen the upstairs rooms since they were finished , but I remember the job they had with the bathroom , and with this . ’ |
| 21 | The worst meeting they had with the Shah was the last . |
| 22 | It always surprised him a little that it was possible to fix the attention on the room itself , its furniture and objects , even before the bodies had been packaged and taken away , as if in their fixed and silent decrepitude they had for a moment become part of the room 's artefacts , as significant as any other physical clue , no more and no less . |
| 23 | But they had for the winter time they their houses to go to . |
| 24 | If the unique guitar/drum intros of many of the recorded works here ( you know them all ) are proof of their creative gift , the live CD is an example of the contempt they had for the carnival going on around them . |
| 25 | The mystical writings of the fifth century author who had adopted the pseudonym Dionysius the Areopagite were quite well known in Europe , even though they never had the same appeal for Europeans as they had for the Greeks . |
| 26 | The audience waved , swayed and sang along enthusiastically , as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him . |
| 27 | In small group discussions , happily married men with children clearly saw fidelity as part of their lives ; although not immune to other women 's charms , they were not prepared to jeopardize what they had for the sake of a night of passion . |
| 28 | Beyond that , the White Paper Better Services for the Mentally III ( 1975 ) also set out rates of provision which health and local authorities ought to be aiming to achieve For ‘ oughtness ’ could be read council discretion about what priorities they had for the distribution of ‘ new moneys ’ . |
| 29 | Yeah , but they might pass onto what they had to the child . |
| 30 | That Mrs Aggie no longer went ragging in The Courts , but , instead , encouraged the children to bring what rags they had to the yard , there to receive their candy rock , and also the women to come on a Sunday morning to the barn and buy what they wanted , she knew was very wise . |