Example sentences of "they [verb] have [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will be different in terms of the sort of interaction they expect to have with computer depending on whether they 're data entry people or management users and maybe some of our users are people in the street , our customers er who who will increasingly become users of systems themselves . |
| 2 | All the family grew more and more irritated as Frank interrupted every conversation they tried to have with Terry , saying , ‘ You 're not telling that right , Ted , ’ or ‘ I could tell them more about that , Ted ’ . |
| 3 | The range , similar to that they 'd had in Heymouth , was black-leaded , the brass parts gleaming . |
| 4 | They may , therefore , only be marginally concerned with the effect that the examination they set has on teaching and learning in primary schools . |
| 5 | One advantage they do have over undergravels is oxygen and harmful gas exchange . |
| 6 | At St Michaels even the rules they do have regarding animals are there to be broken at the special blessing service |
| 7 | The worst they 've had for years , apparently . ’ |
| 8 | Customs men raided Timbmet 's yard at Bicester this afternoon … impounding twenty-four tons of Allerce … a Chilean hardwood which they 've had for sale on their books since nineteen ninty . |
| 9 | She packed up the remains of the bread and cheese they had had for supper , and then watched as he clipped poles together and hammered in pegs ; within minutes the flimsy little structure was up and ready . |
| 10 | But she found hardly anyone who wanted to talk to her afterwards apart from an American girl who admired her frock , and asked her to guess what they had had for luncheon . |
| 11 | She bit her lip and closed her eyes and prayed that she and Steve would somehow resurrect what they had had in Seville as she and Fernando had done . |
| 12 | They were enjoying the first fresh food they had had in weeks before settling down for a long , well-earned rest . |
| 13 | Mr Browne , MP for Winchester since 1979 , said he was defending the right of his constituents to decide who they wished to have as MP , and added : ‘ None of the five ex-supporters is either my election agent or holds any other official appointment within my organisation . ’ |
| 14 | But they have had since January to come up with the $570m that Mr Bush requested as emergency aid and compensation for post-invasion Panama . |
| 15 | These policies have ruined the opportunities and dreams of thousands of people throughout this district and have been carried out with no regard to the drastic effects they have had on people 's lives . |
| 16 | These policies have ruined the opportunities and dreams of thousands of people throughout this district and have been carried out with no regard to the drastic effects they have had on people 's lives . |
| 17 | Indeed , chartered surveyors in London have been encouraged — but ultimately , frustrated — by the volume of enquiries they have had from investors interested in picking-up commercial property at favourable prices . |
| 18 | of the population the £26.2 billion that they have had in tax cuts and use it for the national health service , pensioners , schools and all the social services . |