Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The norms of good legislative behaviour had lost the potency they once had , as former Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said on his retirement in 1976 : The democratization of the Senate proceeded further after Mansfield left . |
| 2 | Party leaders and committee chairmen no longer carried the weight they once had and ordinary members now assumed that the secret of holding one 's seat in perpetuity depended on their success in cultivating their district . |
| 3 | At the Lido they practically had to close the place . |
| 4 | At the moment they only had the word of Nicola 's husband for what had happened . |
| 5 | This was the crunch match they really had to win to stand a chance of staying up . |
| 6 | It was probably the shortest meeting they ever had . |
| 7 | We used to have an hour and a quarter fro lunch , half an hour for tea , and we used to er have to get the principal 's tea ready and in the midmorning they always had tea made of milk . |
| 8 | And they reckon it was the best class of of er Douglas fir they ever had . |
| 9 | Erm of which there , of course is erm impeccable logic er you might think well there are n't any coal mines in Didcot , which of course there are n't , but Didcot is actually a railway junction as I mentioned and in fact it 's on the main line from the midlands erm and they can get coal in from the Midlands very easily er it 's on the main line er also from South Wales and they 're getting co getting coal from , from er South Wales in the days when they built Didcot power station they still had coal m m mines in South Wales , so this was an obvious place to locate a large coalfired power station . |
| 10 | ‘ The main conflict they always had was that she wanted to work more and he would not allow her , ’ according to Jane . |
| 11 | Understandably , it has appealed to teachers reacting against older traditional methods , particularly if these divorced learning to read from any kind of true reading experience , or if they involved the use of books containing as many older schemes did — unnatural and stilted language which prevented children from using the linguistic knowledge they already had . |
| 12 | Only the thought of the month they still had to work together contained her rage , held back the biting comments . |
| 13 | Whilst projects were delighted when they got pump-priming money they also had to draw on a range of local resources . |
| 14 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 15 | It 's just possible Mr Deputy Speaker , it 's just possible I may not be selected for all kinds of reasons but if I was selected it might at least give the people of that lovely part of the world the chance of having the referendum they never had over Maastricht because of the shameful way in which the Labour party was not willing to allow the people to have their say on that vital issue . |
| 16 | Before women could form into groups to press for change they too had to challenge ruling ideas — ideas which suggested that their proper place was at home with the family . |
| 17 | Tolkien , of course , being a Christian , did in absolute fact believe that in the end all things would end happily , that in a sense they already had — a belief he shared with Dante , and a matter of faith beyond argument . |
| 18 | The old joke is that in the army they once had the message ‘ Send reinforcements we 're going to advance ’ but it became ‘ Send three and fourpence we 're going to a dance . ’ |
| 19 | and the first sort of thing they ever had was just like a little screen it just went blip and that 's it , all they could tell you was there was something in their vicinity , it could n't tell you what direction it was or what height or anything . |
| 20 | In Virginia Cowles ' account they also had a 3-tonner with supplies and extra men inside . |
| 21 | And these two women , as they see me , suffering , silent , naked , this guy who 's given them everything and who 's the greatest fuck they ever had in their goddam lives — these women , these simple , nude women , they forget their rivalry and weep in each other 's arms . |
| 22 | Young and old sharing their lives the way they always had , before television shrunk the world … |
| 23 | She did not mention that no more money would be sent — let Ellen discover that when the monthly money orders did not arrive in the punctual way they always had done . |
| 24 | Dot did n't tell her that at school they already had hot and cold water and she could wash her hands and face at any time . |
| 25 | Peter Naulls and he , searching for the hole into the mine , had got as suntanned as if they had been on the kind of holiday they never had , on the beaches of Spain or Italy . |
| 26 | These children would be billeted out among local families , and for some it was the only holiday they ever had . |
| 27 | Mr Berge , appointed in September last year by his friend President Mitterrand , opened the conference with the declaration that despite the jealous and envious reports of the foreign press they now had at the Opera a ‘ welded team ’ and were in a condition of being ‘ resonant and reasonable ’ . |
| 28 | In fact they still had enough resilience to manage a try from short range by Fisher but another highly satisfactory night for the Kiwis ended with Kuiti scoring in the 79th minute and Bancroft landing his sixth goal . |
| 29 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 30 | The people who do these jobs lose the power they once had , their work is closely regulated , and they are made aware of their subordination . |