Example sentences of "they [vb past] have [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a three-month stoppage , engineers said last week that they expected to have the plant running again in a fortnight . |
| 2 | See if they got have the yeah , the linesman he 's an arsehole , the linesman ! |
| 3 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 4 | The first body they passed had a piece of paper pinned to its blanket , Smith , Maisie . |
| 5 | ‘ I first saw his pictures during the punk period and they seemed to have a similar punch , a thriller realism . ’ |
| 6 | They seemed to have a significance independent of the self-satisfied barristers and scurrying clerks who peopled them now . |
| 7 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 8 | They seemed to have a secret between them that I could n't share . ’ |
| 9 | They seemed to have a tendency to slide down it . |
| 10 | They seemed to have a good relationship , agree about most things , and never , never row — at least , not in front of the children . |
| 11 | They seemed to have a show every week or , if not , were invariably guests on other comedians ' shows or the light relief on those interminable chat shows . |
| 12 | ‘ They seemed to have a pretty good idea about what it might be . |
| 13 | Throckmorton said that after he had spoken in the House against the Act in Restraint of Appeals , he had been praised by Fisher and two other clerics , Nicholas Wilson and Richard Reynolds [ qq.v. ] , who told him that he need not persevere with such speeches if they seemed to have no effect , but that his example might be of value to others . |
| 14 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 15 | Finding herself passing Tony 's lodgings one evening when they 'd had no pre-arranged date , she had decided on impulse to drop in and surprise him . |
| 16 | They 'd had a row . |
| 17 | They 'd had a fright when they ran into the tramp . |
| 18 | The last time he 'd seen her she 'd been drunk , they 'd had a fight , he 'd left her sprawling on the carpet . |
| 19 | Other men talked about it quite openly in the club , when they 'd had a few drinks . |
| 20 | They 'd had a skinful so were n't in a particularly noticing mood but they saw and heard nothing , nothing except what they described as a kind of mournful whistling coming from deep in the wood . ’ |
| 21 | By the end , of course , they were thoroughly enjoying themselves because they 'd had a bit to drink and it was a jolly convivial evening . ’ |
| 22 | They used to do some outrageous things together when they 'd had a couple of beers . |
| 23 | She wanted it too , and maybe when she and Charlie were married and in bed and they 'd had a few drinks and she was wearing a black nightie , then maybe it would n't be so bad . |
| 24 | If they 'd had a cook ! |
| 25 | Even if they 'd had a formal partnership , which they did n't , it would have made no difference . |
| 26 | But they 'd had a little drink in Germany , and did n't know where to head ! |
| 27 | They 'd had a huge fork lift truck on the roof where they stored materials . |
| 28 | Mind you , they 'd had a lot of practice . ’ |
| 29 | The heavier atomic bits — the stuff that goes to make up the planets — they had to wait until later until they 'd had a chance to be built up . |
| 30 | They 'd had a wonderful afternoon . |