Example sentences of "they have in [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In winter they earn next to nothing , few of them having in their youth learnt to knit and spin ; and if in summer they are able to go to harvest work , they must pay some person a shilling a week out of their earnings for looking after their children .
2 condensed milk do they have in them ?
3 She stared , fascinated by the carpets on the floor and the brightly painted candles , and wondered why the Catholics lit candles too if both sides had hated each other as much as they had in her school history books .
4 Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’
5 Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers .
6 Thus they had a chance actively to project onto me whatever ‘ wickedness ’ they had in their minds .
7 She and John had been together again , as they had in their very first year .
8 erm I think first you have to relate to so many teachers erm as a parent of a secondary school child , and this is obviously a much more complicated procedure and also I think parents , many parents feel that they know a little bit less about what their children are doing at school at the secondary stage , it 's all that little bit more advanced , that little bit more different perhaps from what they had in their own education .
9 To what er they show some of the old films like they had in them days some of these circus pictures and travel pictures Now I 'll tell you something that 's rather remarkable I 'll I 'll b tell you as briefly as I can .
10 Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all .
11 The old legends have not only this factor of being immortal , but they have in them the property of conferring the peak experience .
12 They have in them presages of mortality ; I have a feeling that there is now more of my past life than my future .
13 It is also true that some dealers are likely to be far keener to sell diesels than others , perhaps reflecting how much faith they have in their products .
14 The lights are slightly dimmed to add effect , then the host begins a ghostly story using items they have in their bags .
15 Stokenchurch Dog Rescue and Welfare Society is always looking for voluntary dog walkers , blankets , towels and newspaper , as well as much needed finance so that they can continue to care for the other 70 dogs they have in their kennels at present .
16 It 's what they have in their heads .
17 They have in their language , and frequently use , Malay imported words for attack , fight , war , to quarrel , and to be angry .
18 Do authorities know how many carers belonging to ethnic minorities they have in their district , how many require respite facilities , and how they fare compared with other carers ?
19 Any reasonably well-known professional scientist will receive from time to time letters written by bell-meaning people who indicate , usually in rather guarded terms , that they have in their possession the solution to the riddle of the universe and they just need a little help in polishing it up or propagating it .
20 It is these very services which can disable people , limiting the amount of real choice they have in their lives .
21 ‘ I find it interesting that we have produced more players of other colours in rugby than they have in our cricket .
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