Example sentences of "they had have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route .
2 They had had a pleasant walk and an easy supper .
3 Although they had no single rooms left , they said finally , they had had a late cancellation of a suite .
4 But first they had had a late tea in the smaller of the drawing-rooms .
5 She and Tom had met because they had had a playful debate about whether and in what sense you could say that coal pre-dated miners .
6 A few days ago , they had had a long and intense discussion about acting , and he had read through some scenes with her , and told her she had great talent and great beauty .
7 He had toyed with the idea of taking her to Dublin anyway , but they had had a rocky road enough already and perhaps she would be better at home .
8 They had had a good run for their money and there were still thousands of reels of tape to be analysed and matched against other intelligence sources .
9 They had had a big Sunday lunch , with Mum and Dad being there .
10 They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children .
11 Dmitri agreed with her , and they had had a passionate argument last night with Marchak , who drove racing cars , and Frolovna , who had loved a matador for two weeks in Spain .
12 Similarly , Zuwaya claimed that they had had a Turkish licence — an exclusive licence , no less — to conduct traders and travellers who wished to cross the desert from Benghazi to Black Africa .
13 This means that they had had a heightened awareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disability career .
14 For example , the percentage reporting that they had had a cold or flu in the previous month showed little change with age .
15 Three years earlier they had had a brief affair .
16 They had had a fine collection : Tombs and Torturers ; Vices and Virgins .
17 The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate .
18 He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary .
19 In 1987 14 per cent of the population of Great Britain , 16 per cent of females and 12 per cent of males , reported that they had had an acute health episode in the previous 14 days .
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