Example sentences of "they had [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 2 | was the Well I suppose they had first claim in . |
| 3 | In addition they had two camel guns , small cannons which could be mounted on saddles and fired from the backs of camels ; for the circumstances these had been mounted on the back of a plush sofa which had been recovered from the rampart where it had served during the rains . |
| 4 | They had all winter . |
| 5 | Many of the latecomers , especially as the afternoon wore on , were furious to find the doors locked , not having heard of the noon closure and so thinking they had all day . |
| 6 | Well you know when they had all hooha about erm dig our |
| 7 | They had all UNACO operatives ' fingerprints on file . |
| 8 | They had one drink — Maxim had never seen anyone order a triple Scotch before — and went on to eat at a roadside café . |
| 9 | They had one goal , to get to America . |
| 10 | They belonged to they were ships you know , but they had one sailing ship , the herself , They made a road into quarry you see . |
| 11 | They had one daughter called Damaris , who married a Mr Kirkham . |
| 12 | They had one daughter , who I believe is not right in the head ; but that may not be the one you met . |
| 13 | His wife , whose name is not known , died before him , and they had one daughter . |
| 14 | They had one daughter , born in 1935 . |
| 15 | They had one daughter . |
| 16 | They had one daughter . |
| 17 | They had one daughter . |
| 18 | They had one daughter and twin sons , one of whom did not survive . |
| 19 | He married in 1899 Hilda L. F. , daughter of William Bliss Sanders ; they had one daughter . |
| 20 | They had one daughter ; there was also a daughter of Ayrton 's previous marriage , who married Israel Zangwill [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | They had one daughter . |
| 22 | They had one daughter . |
| 23 | They had one daughter . |
| 24 | They had one daughter and a son , Walter Gordon , who was shot dead in an industrial fracas in San Francisco in March 1932 . |
| 25 | The marriage was dissolved in 1946 and in 1948 he married June , daughter of Colonel Rex Hamilton Osborne , of Little Ingleburn , Malmesbury , Wiltshire ; they had one daughter . |
| 26 | They had one daughter and two sons . |
| 27 | They had one daughter and four sons . |
| 28 | They had one daughter . |
| 29 | They had one daughter . |
| 30 | They had one daughter . |