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 | 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 . |
| 3 | They were produced in court , where Sergeant Thorpe explained they had new pockets . |
| 4 | Of course they would mourn for Renascia and remember all of the good things about it , only just now they had other things to concentrate on . |
| 5 | They had other problems now to occupy their minds , as well as Balliol 's whereabouts . |
| 6 | ‘ So , Sally-Anne , ’ he said , the three of them on their own , before the tea-tray , Uncle Orrin and Aunt Nella having tactfully found that they had other engagements . |
| 7 | The Hindus , he knew , at least refrained from eating pigs ( unlike the Chinese or the disgusting Christians of Byzantium ) , but he had heard that they had other habits the very thought of which made him swoon . |
| 8 | And they had other leads now . |
| 9 | The answer to this question was that they had other means of transport . |
| 10 | They had other compartments where it was only bread and other compartments where it was just confectionery . |
| 11 | And they had other ways of raising money . |
| 12 | But they had other stresses like food shortages . |
| 13 | They had other reservations , mostly of the sort that critics like to introduce when they have enjoyed something hugely but need to sound credible . |
| 14 | These higher-order shaikhs had no power to intervene in the affairs of component lineages , although again , as senior and widely connected men , they had other roles which could entitle them to express an opinion . |
| 15 | And they had especial value because the other evidence for the nature of primitive man , the ‘ manners and customs of modern savages ’ , was fast disappearing too . |
| 16 | The fact that they had contentious articles written with a fearless pungency seems to have been due to his joint editorship of both . |
| 17 | They had front exits and were of slightly lower seating capacity than the E/1s . |
| 18 | Their agreement was bought with concessions to certain aspects of sovereignty about which they had strong feelings . |
| 19 | The threat from the employers was paralleled by that from disgruntled seamen or former agents of the union who felt that they had personal grievances against Wilson or cherished ambitions to establish seamen 's organizations of their own . |
| 20 | They had small populations and few , if any , known opioid users and so their exclusion did not significantly alter the findings presented below . |
| 21 | erm They had great services were held in Christchurch Cathedral , and the King would have looked out from the Deans House , and this is the view of Tom Quad , a modern view , of course , of how you can look out onto the Great Quad of Christchurch , but of course it was n't like that . |
| 22 | And all the guys at the back the T T S put my name down for it because they had great hilarity |
| 23 | In fact , they had great difficulty in producing a satisfactory list of categories , and had to revise it as work progressed . |
| 24 | Although the teachers were aware of this ‘ weapon ’ they had great difficulty in finding anything to attack it with . |
| 25 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |
| 26 | They had great fun with the bad . |
| 27 | Depicting the bad — especially the devils they had great fun with . |
| 28 | Mr Lewis said they had great sympathy for the flood victims . |
| 29 | Any National Labour figure ( they had great scarcity value ) was absolutely safe in his office . |
| 30 | Some did walk on their own , but they had great confidence . |