Example sentences of "had [art] [noun] [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane . |
| 2 | It can be I know , but I mean erm , I 'm thinking of some of my electorate , and I have n't actually had the opportunity to ask them . |
| 3 | Can I just I think it 's fairly important that if we 'd have actually done the reconciliation , last week , we 'd have had the opportunity to recheck them . |
| 4 | I have never had the heart to try them myself ! |
| 5 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 6 | I 've got some gardening gloves at home , I have n't had the chance to use them yet , the weather 's been so bad |
| 7 | They have n't had the money to repair them ) |
| 8 | It would have suited his purposes admirably well to have had the police arrest them for responding to his antagonism . |
| 9 | The signs had all been there if only she 'd had the gumption to read them . |
| 10 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 11 | Well , I do n't have up-to-date figures because I have n't had the time to compile them , but I do know — I know it 's twelve years ago , but — in nineteen seventy three if you look at horses that were offered at precisely fifty to one , then you 'd find that there were five hundred and thirty horses offered at those odds during the whole of that season . |
| 12 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |
| 14 | One man had done that , one man had had the power to call them all out here on to the moor , away from their homes , their jobs . |
| 15 | ‘ I have had no opportunity to ask them . |
| 16 | The words had leapt out of Tom 's mouth before he had had a chance to stop them . |
| 17 | ‘ We have n't had a chance to tell them that he 's gone for trial yet , sir . |
| 18 | We can never know what folly and what wisdom is in the speeches until we have had a chance to read them . ’ |
| 19 | She might not have had a daughter to sing them with but she could enjoy their soulfullness on her own . |
| 20 | Each one would have had an attendant to stop them doing themself harm . |
| 21 | Perhaps we could discuss once you have had an opportunity to consider them . |