Example sentences of "they [vb past] have the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon . |
| 6 | I put them back into the tank , still amazed they 'd had the strength to move the glass . |
| 7 | Would we not have heard again a hubbub of outrage , complaints that the Coalition ought to have flattened Baghdad when they 'd had the chance , a chorus of demands that Saddam be taken out now … |
| 8 | The Chinese lunch they 'd had the secretary phone out for lay on the coffee table like a child 's experiments with putty and paint and designer ooze . |
| 9 | You know mother 'd used to come back so thrilled with all these slides they 'd had and they 'd had the local doctor as well . |
| 10 | It was n't very fair to feel betrayed by someone you loved , someone very close to you , simply because they 'd had the misfortune to die suddenly … |
| 11 | so if you did fit anything on the back of the head they 'd had the comfort , they know what was wrong like |
| 12 | I mean they at least they could pick you up cos they 'd had the log book . |
| 13 | I meant to ask if they 'd had the go-karts nicked and I forgot . |
| 14 | No , I mean , it would have been fantastic if they 'd had the cash to just get on would n't it ? |
| 15 | They 'd had the stuff for a couple of years in the store and we were going to meet them there , at number twenty five Lilac Avenue , New Brighton . |
| 16 | They claimed to have the weapon purely for self-defence but also had a set of viciously spiked knuckle-dusters . |
| 17 | These two judges were called the horse and the hen , because it was said , they needed to have the swiftness of the one and the vigilance of the other . |
| 18 | In the case of Camden and Islington , the authority did have good officers , and they did have the capacity to plan for a future district based provision . |
| 19 | They did have the consolation of a team medal , however , and only Sudbury 's Steve Jones prevented RTE taking a first five clean sweep . |
| 20 | The Location of Offices Bureau showed the way in South-East England ; distances moved from central London were often modest but they did have the effect of prising population outward . |
| 21 | They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er |
| 22 | They , they did have the option that they could have had complete absolute egalitarianism and made everybody into a poor peasant , but the commun but the commun the Communist Party were progressive and they s saw that how that you needed to have industrialization in order to increase the welfare of peasants which was their ultimate aim , and I mean it appears that how that they did n't actually care er what kinds of means they 'd have to achieve that , as in capitalism was justified in this longer term perspective . |
| 23 | When Jesus , when , while Jesus had been with them they had had the confidence . |
| 24 | Because it was n't mine till they had had the stuff . |
| 25 | They wanted to make it work though and they could n't have made it work unless they had had the I mean the right conditions to do so . |
| 26 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 27 | They had to satisfy the judges that they had had the education of an English gentleman . |
| 28 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 29 | Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls . |
| 30 | But Floy was still sickened ; he remembered how on Renascia they had tried to follow what they had known of the Earth-people 's death rituals and how they had had the large , austere Firehouse with the ornate bronze lamps which were always kept burning in memory of those who had died . |