Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clubs have their own singles , doubles and knockout competitions after which tournaments are held at regional , national and international level . |
| 2 | ‘ We shall not need to use that formation again , ’ Thorfinn said , and saw that the forest was quiet and the scouts had nothing to disturb them before turning to walk to his men . |
| 3 | At Trafalgar 's agm though , the shareholders had their turn . |
| 4 | And The Shamen have plenty of theories . |
| 5 | The closure of Ulimwengu could have been challenged in the courts had anyone felt willing , or been at liberty , to do so . |
| 6 | The courts have themselves shown a willingness recently to subject the decisions of the police to the general principles developed in other areas of the law . |
| 7 | The Germans had their problems launching V2 rockets . |
| 8 | The germans had their FA , their TV companies and their Govt ‘ lobbying ’ . |
| 9 | If the French and the Germans have their way then it wo n't just be the single market that comes into force on January 1 , 1993 ; it will be political union too . |
| 10 | Every British academic complains of this problem , but the Germans have it worse because they are almost 30 before they get their degrees , and can not expect an academic job until they get a doctorate and a further qualification for academic teaching , called the habilitation . |
| 11 | By the time he was 20 and the most prodigiously gifted Celtic player of his generation , Charlie was to discover that dancing with the birds had its own special charm . |
| 12 | There were many wells in the area and almost all the houses had their own water pumps . |
| 13 | But the Lions had their chances and went steadily downhill from this first-Test defeat to a 4–0 whitewash . |
| 14 | The Lions have their best chance of winning a Test in this opening fixture as the All Blacks can be expected to hone their act by the time the Wellington and Auckland Tests come along in the final week of the tour . |
| 15 | by the lions , you know the lions have it |
| 16 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |
| 17 | But the Russians had their own grand plan which made even the North American transcontinental schemes and the Cape to Cairo dream pale into insignificance . |
| 18 | The Russians have their twelve ballets based on Pushkin 's poems such as The Fountain of Bakhchisarai and the Czechs have The Gingerbread Heart . |
| 19 | However , I wish to stress that the racecourses have nothing to do with this idiotic piece of planning . |
| 20 | MacCabe and Heath had studied in Paris , and Signs of the Times has its niche in postwar cultural history , marking the first major re-entry of French intellectual influences since Eliot 's adherence to Remy de Gourmont and the French neoclassicists , half a century earlier . |
| 21 | Let's hope the Crues have one sooner than later . |
| 22 | I noticed , er , I felt three of the groups had somebody centrally who , who was being fed information all the time . |
| 23 | However , while the supermarkets first appeared to threaten traditional wine shops , the merchants have themselves adapted and thrived . |
| 24 | Yet he was also obstinate , even perverse ; his translations would have been less likely to have been seized by the authorities had they not been accompanied by the contentious marginal comments . |
| 25 | Thus although the authorities had their wish and Leese was effectively silenced for six months , during which time the IFL became a virtually moribund organization , the Rex v. |
| 26 | A distinction drawn the previous day by Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok , who pointed out that the UDF was subject to restrictions but not formally banned , was dismissed by the UDF on Jan. 18 as a " play on semantics " ; moreover , the UDF had decided simply to disregard the restrictions , rather than apply to the authorities to have them lifted . |
| 27 | We approached it cautiously , in case the cops had it staked out . |
| 28 | We have a bird , a budgie , a cat and one of the clients has her own budgie . |
| 29 | Even when there is a will , it will be six months or more before the beneficiaries have what is due to them . |
| 30 | Take food hygiene : it is cheaper for a large council to set up a laboratory to service several districts than for each of the districts to have its own . |