Example sentences of "they [adv] had [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And despite the wonderful climate , and being able to play Riviera whenever I wanted , I longed to see green fields and my folks and my friends , and hear the cricket scores on the radio , and escape from the constant pursuit of more money and better deals for the clients , who mostly did n't care anyway because they already had more money than they knew what to do with . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The voiders lingered by the body , however , bright enough to know that they still had some duty to perform with it . |
| 5 | They still had more right than she did to own anything her father had left , but she desperately wanted something , something to be able to look at , something to let her know that he really had existed and that he had needed her after all . |
| 6 | But , but I think er you know in , in Russia er they always had this kind of authoritarian regime . |
| 7 | ‘ What I mean is , they probably had some sort of … lover 's quarrel , Gebrec went storming out in a rage and charged up to the belvedere to cool off . |
| 8 | On the other hand , more of the owner-managed businesses said they now had more confidence in the direction of Government policy than the top 1,000 representatives . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , they often had little experience in civil administration and although the system may have seemed effective in suppressing Lombard leadership , ultimately it acted against Frederick 's interests due to its inherent inefficiency and unpopularity . |
| 10 | They often had this sort of conversation , and Constance always made allowances for Scarlet 's naivety : such slowness on the uptake was the result of a sheltered background and not necessarily a sign of limited intelligence , though she sometimes wondered . |
| 11 | They even had some control over their own finances and their own armed forces . |
| 12 | ‘ They never had any money . |
| 13 | Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order . |
| 14 | ( Hannah 's work on occupational pensions suggests that employers could seldom conspire , because they seldom had any idea of what they were doing in the area of pension policy . ) |