Example sentences of "they had some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Apparently no specific policy but managers told us they had some problems in the past with dogs messing in the store . |
| 3 | In all these ways they were more akin to urban dwellers , and felt they had some independent choices to make in order to improve their lives . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ They had some panelling I wanted for a boat I did up , and some antique bathroom fittings . |
| 6 | They had some Lewes bombs , but no detonators , and thus could not carry out their mission . |
| 7 | They had some good meals together , and when John left , the man gave him an inscribed copy of the lithograph being used as poster for his exhibition . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was with me on one occasion when we went to Saltburn where they had some Italian gardens which I liked very much . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To say that the crowd is ‘ learning fast ’ implies that before Flying arrived they had some catching up to do — which is not true . |
| 14 | Their foot were not in the main Highlandmen — although they had some of these , from upland Perthshire and the Glens of Angus — and so could not travel so fast and far each day . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They had some very funny ideas about the construction as it was some 300ft below the surface and some of the local people feared the whole land area would collapse . |
| 17 | Taking the Gengshen Reforms as a sign that political reform was acceptable , they had tried to conduct campaigns along the lines of those in the western world , of which they had some limited knowledge . |
| 18 | If only they had some grenades of the gas or choke or knockout variety ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I noticed they had some Philippine mahogany doors in Do It All |
| 21 | Saudi they had some sort of electronic torture chamber |
| 22 | They had some support amongst officials at court , but they had not troubled to build up support amongst the magnates or the lesser landowners . |
| 23 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 24 | It was a Saturday , their father was sleeping in , as were their three elder brothers , so for once they had some time to play by themselves , which they did in the yard . |
| 25 | They had some good ideas in 1865 . " |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And it was sort of quite a thing when that was , went up , and ooh it was so awful they had some terrible things in this town did n't they ? |
| 28 | They had some good reason on their side . |
| 29 | ‘ Looks like they had some sort of problem with their trailer there , ’ I said . |
| 30 | They had some fine players in their side — Cameron , herby Taylor , Mitchell , Bell , Balaskas , Morkel , Vincent — but Australia had Bradman ( 806 runs at 201 ) and Grimmett , whose 33 wickets for 557 placed him behind left-armer Ironmonger , who took 31 for 300 in the series . |