Example sentences of "they have have [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She remembered the difficulties they 'd had repairing Starlings after the war , when you could n't get a brick or a plank of wood , not even if you was royalty ; and she remembered comforting Nell as each granddaughter left home .
2 A large number of dogs who end up in the rescue homes would be on the vet 's euthanasia list if they 'd had different owners .
3 er and Sharon never alt er cancelled that , well they come out and they said they 'd had Chinese flu so when I went into and had me chest done , I says I 've got the flu like , she says yeah she said I says I , I know , I said they 've got that Chinese flu she 's be
4 Out of the three statements from fellow travellors read out to the coroner , non said they 'd had previous warnings from either the travel company or the foreign office that the region they were in had experienced previous Muslim fundamentalist acts of terrorism against visitors .
5 think well they 've had long enough now we 'll we 'll have a switch you know
6 Well they 've had long enough to do it !
7 They 've had tremendous power in the market place with no competition .
8 They in turn say they 've had tremendous support from hospital staff and the people of Cheltenham .
9 They 've had additional training in in erm filling in correctly the the the form and will pick up erm for example on the erm the principal accountabilities — every accountability should have three parts , it should be an action verb to help , or to do , or to ensure , or whatever and it should be what it is you 're doing and thirdly it ought to have some sort of erm target in in in doing it .
10 ‘ So far they 've had good bushel weights . ’
11 They 've had different syllabuses at school and masters have in fact omitted large chunks of the syllabus to get better results in the parts that they concentrate on , so you can not assume that everybody has adequate abilities .
12 They 've had high points before , will they ever really make that elusive breakthrough to power ?
13 Oh well , that sounds like everybody else , cos I was just saying to Ann that Ian and erm Martin they 've had high temperatures and
14 You say that I need to discuss copy when I 've got there if you 've got copy if they 've had full colour before then they will have bromides and separations and things like
15 But police here say they 've had growing problems in regulating the tide and have even ordered groups of refugees to return to the border post to allow time to clear bottlenecks further down the five hundred mile route to the Red Sea port of Aqaba .
16 From Asmar 's reports , I knew that some of them were into arms trafficking as well as dope and that meant they had to have close ties with Syrian-supported terrorist groups like the PFLP — GC .
17 Yeah , and there 's another couple of guys and they were saying that how strict the training was when they first took it on you know that the their masters used to beat them and everything , into submission , s said they had to have complete submission before they could train them to be what they were , you know , bring them up , teach them and train them
18 His illusions started with reality too , that made the jumping-off point , in the same way that an illusionist on stage has a real girl ; they had to have near possibility , nothing too extreme , not at the beginning anyway .
19 Chemistry in the first half of the century was something which had to be learned by medical students , often without much pleasure ; they had to have formal if elementary courses of lectures , and textbooks .
20 They had had occasional disputes as all families do but none had been damaging .
21 When Henry VIII dismissed three of these gentlemen and various other household officials in 1519 , the Venetian ambassador commented that they had had great authority and had been the ‘ very soul ’ of the King .
22 that they had had insufficient feedback ;
23 But Bosnian Serbs refused to let the convoy pass , saying they had had insufficient advance notice , said Judith Kumin of the United Nations ' High Commissioner for Refugees in Belgrade .
24 They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine .
25 These managers did not come across as having expert power , because they had had minimal training and appeared to be unorganised and therefore unprofessional in their conduct .
26 What would Wales have achieved 20 years ago if they had had endless squad sessions , trips to Lanzarote , 2–3 days a week off to train , personal fitness plans , etc. ?
27 as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here .
28 They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after .
29 They were excluded if they had been treated with steroids , cytotoxic drugs , antibiotics , anti-ulcer drugs , or if they had had gastroduodenal surgery .
30 Reviewing women at between 22–28 years after the index pregnancy ( when they had had abnormal glucose tolerance , but reverted to normal tolerance afterwards ) , he found a 50% prevalence of diabetes and 25% of abnormal glucose tolerance , whereas the controls had rates of 7% and 3% .
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