Example sentences of "and they had [det] " in BNC.

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1 And they had all that way to travel back …
2 Apart from her visits to Marion and Hector and the babies , she was busy at the hives , for it was the end of the season , and they had all the honey to draw and store .
3 I never work because it was a small workshop that I worked in and in the south side where I belonged , there was an awful lot of Polish people and Jews and they had all these wee furniture places and they made up There was quite a community you know , they were had wee workshops and cabinet makers and my boss was a Latvian .
4 and they had all these great pads you know and I had all these maternity pads because I needed them you know I had to pad up and I had to and I felt so embarrassed
5 And they had all this on top of it and everything , so everyone just eat bread .
6 And they had such fun together !
7 Also Goblander had needed a new exhaust system and they had that done immediately , not in the local Nunes garage though but at a big , impersonal place in Colchester .
8 And me proficiency c certificate , I took that as well and they had that as well .
9 she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see
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11 In fact , Joseph , Benjamin and Mary were the children of Joseph 's first marriage ( in 1696 to Margaret Bower ) and they had each been provided for upon their marriage .
12 This week 's gathering at Greenmount College brought together some of the best brains on the poultry scene and they had much to impart to the industry .
13 Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself .
14 Congresses and committees did not scrutinize military funding and expenditure , and they had little opportunity to discuss military actions : the government did not announce the ventures in Chad and Uganda ; nor did they disclose training given to Chaddian , Palestinian and perhaps other freedom-fighters ( Tunisian , for example ) .
15 But taking up their suggestions and using their materials was always optional ; and they had little power to change the general attitude of the public towards the ‘ non-academic ’ .
16 This was not a powerful cabal , and they had little expectation of early success .
17 And they had little pink icing of a star on the top and we must have had six dozen .
18 It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time .
19 They could not develop an agreed political ideology , they were tainted with the ‘ red ’ smear , and they had less success than the IRA in making themselves acceptable to their own communities .
20 And they had these spotlights on and we were melting .
21 And they had these two or three foresters there , cutting them up .
22 That 's right , and erm mix it all together in one big sheet and cut all the corners , and throw it over your shoulder and go and feed these cattle , and they had these circular feed ducks
23 And they had some terrible times , I can tell you .
24 And as soon as they finished their feed and they had some drinks from the small tins as well , we used to put them one by one back in these boxes where the eggs were and they used to settle down straight off then after they had their feed and and they used to erm settle down no trouble at all .
25 Erm the Japanese presence in the south was , was more just along the coast , they , they , they 'd taken the trading ports erm and they had some of the interior but on , on the whole south China had not been dominated by the Japanese , th th th their base was very much the north China plain and , and spreading across towards the communist areas .
26 I went into New Look and they had some lovely things in there this morning !
27 Anyway they said what else would they like and they had some , a set of luggage , well it 's only this nylon stuff but it was very useful for them to take away with them it did a bit of good the and I , I put in this letter I shall no longer order , I shall what was it ?
28 I have n't been in it since we 've been here and I said ooh there , they 're packed out and they had some beautiful stuff
29 They are still a great club and they had several internationals out there . ’
30 But the Evans were clean and they had enough to eat .
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