Example sentences of "they had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 2 | was the Well I suppose they had first claim in . |
| 3 | As reconditioned they had new B.T-H. 509c motors and line switch attachments fitted to the controllers so that they could be used interlocked with air brakes . |
| 4 | They were produced in court , where Sergeant Thorpe explained they had new pockets . |
| 5 | He married , in 1943 , Betty Falloon ; they had two sons and a daughter . |
| 6 | They had two sons . |
| 7 | He married , secondly , in 1941 ( dissolved 1954 ) , Mary MacDonald ; they had two sons . |
| 8 | They had two sons , the elder of whom , Fredrik Jacob Willem , was born about 1848 . |
| 9 | John and Elsie they were called , and they had two sons , Stanley and Gilbert . |
| 10 | They had two sons , my father and Uncle Tommy , and I think another child who did n't survive . |
| 11 | They had two sons and two daughters . |
| 12 | They had two sons ; the elder committed suicide in 1928 and the younger died in action in 1917 . |
| 13 | In 1836 he married Margaret ( died 1880 ) , daughter of George Green of Rainton , Durham ; they had two sons and four daughters . |
| 14 | They had two sons and five daughters , two of whom died in infancy . |
| 15 | They had two sons . |
| 16 | They had two sons who died young and three daughters . |
| 17 | They had two sons , both later prominent in the BB . |
| 18 | They had two sons . |
| 19 | In 1942 he married Eileen Cathcart , MRCOG , daughter of George Gibson Baird , engineer , of Tynemouth , and they had two sons and two daughters . |
| 20 | They had two sons and a daughter . |
| 21 | After her death , he married Margaret Ann , daughter of Angus McEwan , schoolmaster of Assynt ; they had two sons . |
| 22 | They had two sons , ( Sir ) Winston Leonard ( 1874–1965 , q.v. ) and John Strange ( 1880–1947 ) . |
| 23 | In 1805 he married Jane Stobart : they had two sons , John and Benjamin [ q.v. ] , |
| 24 | They had two sons and one daughter . |
| 25 | By 1531 he had married Isabel , daughter of Sir John Leigh of Stockwell , Surrey ; they had two sons . |
| 26 | They had two sons of whom the elder , Henry ( 1606–56 , q.v. ) , was clerk of the House of Commons 1639–49 . |
| 27 | They had two sons and two daughters . |
| 28 | They had two sons . |
| 29 | They had two sons , one of whom died in infancy , and one daughter . |
| 30 | They had two sons and one daughter . |