Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She thought they 'd better have something to drink so she got some sherry , then she was worried because she 's only got those little glasses you know , little tumblers , and she says they 're only for whisky . ’ |
| 2 | Having appealed against East Herts ' refusal of listed building consent , they withdrew from a public inquiry at a late stage after their intended expert witness informed them that they did not have a strong enough case . |
| 3 | Sir : In your interesting article ( 30 September ) about the sale to the British Library by Lord Norwich ( for a sum left tantalisingly undisclosed ) of Evelyn Waugh 's letters to his late mother , Lady Diana Cooper , the library 's curator of modern literary manuscripts , a Ms Brown , was quoted as follows : I am sure that they did not have a physical affair . |
| 4 | They did not have to pay the usual £20 a tablet and both took one . |
| 5 | As the Labour dissidents in the Cabinet recognized , they did not have the power — they were a minority in the Cabinet as well as in the Commons — to avoid such a cut ; all that they could do was to ensure that it was not a Labour government which imposed it . |
| 6 | And all the rest of humanity which offended you , too : Jews , gipsies , the mentally handicapped , Poles , Russians — the Untermensch — — the subhuman , subhuman because they did not have blue eyes and blond hair , white skin or , that vaguest , and because most vague , most potent of myths , the right blood . |
| 7 | A pity they did not have TV to show us Christmas cattle grazing the Alpine pastures . |
| 8 | Union leaders should take immediate steps to ensure that no one was ever denied a job because they did not have a union card . |
| 9 | In England even when Botham was working one of his miracles people at work did not stop ; if they did not have a radio they just rang the Test score , on the works phone of course , a bit more frequently . |
| 10 | They did not have long to wait . |
| 11 | They did not have to isolate zinc metal to do this but used the cementation process described on page 76 . |
| 12 | Poor people preferred to hold their funerals on Sundays , when they did not have to work and when public-houses were open . |
| 13 | Yet the last in the little series of stories about the ark would have recalled to their minds the story of chapter 4 , and would have reminded them that though they were irrevocably , for better for worse , for richer for poorer , the people of God , they did not have God in their pocket , and could never keep him there . |
| 14 | They did not have such consistent and coherent schemata of ranked hierarchies or principle as are found in clandestine cells or academic seminars . |
| 15 | But the usual method was to take to the desert : they did not have to go far to become nomads . |
| 16 | Originally , the replay was scheduled for next Wednesday at Villa Park , but West Midlands Police objected , pointing out they did not have the manpower to handle a match of that magnitude on the eve of polling day . |
| 17 | Chelsea are not a particularly good team and they did not have to play well to win this often tedious match . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ They did not have certain top-class players out there , but the majority of those who came in were £1 million players and I felt that they would be fighting for a place in the Cup replay . ’ |
| 19 | For studying botany in the field they did not have far to go . |
| 20 | These included exemptions granted to the new water companies by the DoE , so that they did not have to comply with EC rules . |
| 21 | Yet the numbers of women choosing not to marry receded in times of rising real wages , and the same conditions lowered the average age at marriage Hence , it is wise to remember that many women remained unmarried only because they did not have the means to start a new household with a husband . |
| 22 | Such authoritative directives provide the subjects with reasons which they did not have before . |
| 23 | Once the directive is issued , individuals have reasons to take the action it requires which they did not have before , because now there is ground to expect that a convention will be formed . |
| 24 | Perhaps they did not have to ply their trade on the streets . |
| 25 | It is clear that their devotion to The Wedding Present was too strong , and they did not have the resources to see through the whole project . |
| 26 | For example , if someone says that they did not have time to read the material and asks for a summary from the author or chairman , politely refuse . |
| 27 | ‘ They did not have Argentinian money . ’ |
| 28 | At least this way they did not have far to fall . |
| 29 | John 's firm having been established for nearly forty years by this time , the rival Lawrence Girls were definitely more earthy in character , with not a snob amongst them possibly because they did not have such a long tradition . |
| 30 | Earlier workers failed ; one reason was that they did not have the technology to reach the necessary high temperatures and pressures . |