Example sentences of "they have had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely , after the wonderful night of passion she had experienced with Ross , they 'd had a real chance of mending their relationship ? |
| 2 | I did ask if they 'd had a nice meal , but Lisabeth just ‘ harrumphed ’ so I dropped the subject and told them instead that I was going to meet Duncan and collect Salome 's car . |
| 3 | They 'd had a long , hard , cold morning 's work and levity took over . |
| 4 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |
| 5 | That 's what I said first , I said ooh they 'd had a terrible job ! |
| 6 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 7 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 8 | Her father , Peter Few Brown said they 'd had a good visit . |
| 9 | that 's what I mean if they 'd had a good whistler he kept instead of her , could n't he ? |
| 10 | In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood . |
| 11 | They 'd had a huge fork lift truck on the roof where they stored materials . |
| 12 | They 'd had a wonderful afternoon . |
| 13 | ‘ I feel women are pushed out of hospital , just as if they 'd had a minor operation , or a very mild illness . ’ |
| 14 | 2 crew were killed and many locals felt they 'd had a lucky escape . |
| 15 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
| 16 | He signalled to the waiter ; during the brief ceremony of settling the bill , handing over a tip and saying yes thank you they 'd had a lovely evening and enjoyed their meal , his avoidance of her eye was constant and deliberate . |
| 17 | But they 'd had a little drink in Germany , and did n't know where to head ! |
| 18 | Even if they 'd had a formal partnership , which they did n't , it would have made no difference . |
| 19 | Some of them were in a terrible state because they 'd had an electric shock from the lightning . |
| 20 | They 've had a long time to crack a lot of these problems pardon |
| 21 | They 've had a cushy subsidised existence for too long . |
| 22 | Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday . |
| 23 | Well they 've had a marvellous sort of conversion of that done |
| 24 | All returning submarines fly one if they 've had a good patrol . ’ |
| 25 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 26 | As for Norwich they 've had a good start and will take some stopping . |
| 27 | She says they 've had a good time . |
| 28 | No birds about at the moment but they 've had a good feed of chicken , but |
| 29 | Oh yeah yeah they 've had a good time I think down there |
| 30 | There 's lots of talking and laughing when they do that — they look like they 've had a real good time . |