Example sentences of "they had some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had some beliefs and practices that seemed to link with the early days of the Old Testament , possibly due to some earlier Christian influence , believed by some missionaries to trace back to Nestorian missionaries moving through parts of Burma into China . |
| 2 | But , and I have no concerns about sports ground sale , we 've regulated the numbers because they had some concerns about the and that , that itself has caused 's fellow supporters some problems , but we 've actually restricted the number of people who can use the sports ground . |
| 3 | They had some support amongst officials at court , but they had not troubled to build up support amongst the magnates or the lesser landowners . |
| 4 | They had some support in Parliament , but their strength lay outside it , and their strategy was to mobilize this support , through demonstrations , petitions , and by organizing within the army . |
| 5 | Her face was blank , and Meryl found herself wondering how she could ever have imagined that they had some kind of common bond , women in medicine , friendship . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , they had some kind of conscience . |
| 7 | Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation . |
| 8 | ‘ They had some panelling I wanted for a boat I did up , and some antique bathroom fittings . |
| 9 | And after that evening when Dionne said ‘ it ’ was over , they had some undoing to go through , so near the edge of agony and ecstasy . |
| 10 | They had some chaps wearing it . |
| 11 | Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Apparently no specific policy but managers told us they had some problems in the past with dogs messing in the store . |
| 13 | Is that the one that they had some problems with the er rugby club ? |
| 14 | The other six people all used this same excuse , but at least they had some hair to wash . |
| 15 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 16 | The petitions on their own may be unreliable , but the response of the Crown to them must surely be an indication that they had some substance : a government which was regularly short of funds would be unlikely to grant remissions , and the fact that different towns were allowed varying amounts of tax allowance suggests that some attempt was made to calculate the resources available . |
| 17 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 18 | They , they we they had some guns on the castle and they were , I suppose there must have been enemy planes over . |
| 19 | See if they yeah , they have n't got any video cases , they had some video cases the other day and I forgot to get some |
| 20 | The other thing is , you know Noel came , they had some money , what do you want , actually I could ask them because he also said things . |
| 21 | Each had its own project to attend to … checking on nesting boxes they had some months earlier put among the trees … on the stream … recording the height of various trees planted the autumn before … and there was also some weeding to be done , as always , among the ranks of young trees . |
| 22 | These were not people with chronic or serious illnesses and yet they claimed that on most days they had some sort of ache or pain or just a feeling of being ‘ run down ’ or ‘ drained ’ . |
| 23 | Saudi they had some sort of electronic torture chamber |
| 24 | ‘ Looks like they had some sort of problem with their trailer there , ’ I said . |
| 25 | It was n't as if they had some sort of relationship ; he had taken her out only to help her with her search . |
| 26 | If they had some sort of party in there he 's gon na go over the top you know . |
| 27 | He could n't get my bag back for me , or the other contents , because they had some value — although very little I 'm sure — whereas the letter , having no value at all ( except for me of course ! ) was thrown away . |
| 28 | Of course they had some value , in an informal way , as precedents , but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible , but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved . |
| 29 | People have been diagnosed with cancer etcetera , erm , in fact at the convention yesterday , they had some clients on the stage , one lady had been diagnosed with breast cancer , she got a pay-out from living assurance , five years later she 's been cleared , and , and she 's thrilled to bits about it . |
| 30 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |