Example sentences of "[conj] they [pron] had " in BNC.

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1 She and Gillian were both in the Leprechauns , being both had Irish parents , although they themselves had been born and brought up in England .
2 And now that was the attitude that that that they they had that er a lot of them , not not everybody of course that just and she had this attitude , erm anybody that had lost their baby were lucky , you see .
3 On the other hand , the great majority reckoned that they themselves had taken the decision to use a particular type of credit ( regardless of whether or not they had seriously considered any other type too ) .
4 As it does so , individuals are able to become more conscious of the assumptions about personal worth and ‘ correct conduct ’ that they themselves had been tacitly making , and to see that an alternative personal philosophy could generate greater inner strength , and decrease their dependency on other people 's approval .
5 In Simmons v. Potter ( 1975 D.C. ) the defendants , second-hand car dealers , succeeded in proving that the commission of the offence was due to ‘ reliance upon information supplied to him ’ but failed to prove that they themselves had taken ‘ all reasonable precautions , ’ etc .
6 Erm , hopefully we 'll have the same effect that 'em they had in Basildon and erm .
7 And they they had bought them .
8 Some of them were kept really busy just er looking after the brakes and and they they had to er check the er the erm hooks .
9 I quickly told them that it was their problem and they who had to sort it out .
10 They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin .
11 In the case of the Londoners , however , they may have been more vulnerable to plague than were country dwellers , unless they themselves had , as they might , country properties to which they could flee in time of pestilence .
12 So it ca n't be a very big fridge because they they had one here before and I was lucky to get four cartons of orange in there and one bottle and you 've had it .
13 A third way in which doctors may become interested in homoeopathy is through having one of their patients helped by it when they themselves had failed .
14 Somewhere out there the verderers were saddling their terrified horses and making , as they themselves had done , for the refuge of the forest ; but whatever was going on out there was unseen , unknown .
15 It was a lot of hard work and a lot of fun , but once in a lifetime was enough , as they themselves had been told by those who had made the 1928 pie .
16 Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) .
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