Example sentences of "they [adv] have " in BNC.
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1 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |
2 | ‘ Racing people do have flexible hours , ’ he observed , ‘ and they mostly have free afternoons . ’ |
3 | In addition , they rarely had the opportunity to escape their environment for they were rarely educated beyond the age of fourteen , the statutory minimum age established by the Fisher Education Act of 1918 . |
4 | However , Miller praised the English cauliflower , originally from Cyprus , and commented that in France they rarely had them until near Michaelmas while Holland was generally supplied from England , and Germany had only recently started to cultivate them . |
5 | They rarely had visitors , and if ever anyone was expected the front drawing room in its pale greens and pinks with damp spots over the wall could be aired and dusted . |
6 | If they rarely had much chance in the more skilled manual jobs , unless apprenticed to some craft at home , they were probably better off than the poorest of the city-born . |
7 | And the specialists ' impact on other classes was limited ‘ because they rarely have sufficient time to work alongside their colleagues ’ . |
8 | Not because they may relate more positively to menstruation and to their sexuality ( as some psychologists have suggested ) , but more likely , I believe , because they rarely have the opportunity to experience menstruation . |
9 | It 's not that the TV folk like to be topical , it 's because they rarely have the nous to come up with anything original . |
10 | Apart from the Heads of Units , they rarely have contact with other similar services . |
11 | While forums such as these can take a community-wide approach , they rarely have executive power , being largely bodies for debate and comment . |
12 | Thorndyke 's puzzle box forced animals to use a trial and error strategy in which they eventually had to happen on an answer through associations . |
13 | He declared contemptuously that their only well-developed mental quality was their memory , that they only had a small amount of intelligence , and that they were ‘ incapable of affection for man. , |
14 | Some graduates stride to the front of the little hall so easily you would not guess they only had one leg . |
15 | If they were drunk and disorderly and so on , they only had themselves to blame . |
16 | ’ If they were drunk and disorderly and so on , they only had themselves to blame . |
17 | Even in the 1980s a troupe could be performing a highly individual routine in the most modern style but they only had to link arms , synchronize a few kicks and the audience would break into spontaneous applause . |
18 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
19 | Dieters were told that they only had to ration carbohydrates and then they could eat as much as they liked of other foods . |
20 | These butts are pre-dyed , but I was curious as to why they only had colour on one side . |
21 | They had issued the caution , now they were anxious to get on with the questioning , and they only had six hours from the time of the caution in which to hold her . |
22 | In a phone call to Vernon 's brother Richard , Jackie said they only had cheap ceramic souvenirs . |
23 | They only had to miss half a dozen meals and they started to complain . |
24 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |
25 | It was now 9.00am , they only had about one hour 's fuel left , enough for 180 miles at the most . |
26 | They only had a week . |
27 | ‘ They only had one chance , ’ she says . |
28 | They only had one objective — to save a few bob for the government . |
29 | His wife , Aunt Ann , was kept heavy with child most of the time , but she lost most of them and they only had the four . |
30 | The great Fangio ( Arg ) was also in the Maserati team but they only had one race together as team-mates before Fangio moved on to Mercedes . |