Example sentences of "they had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary . |
| 2 | I found out they had a computer in the bottom of the building when I worked in the bank and it started off from that . |
| 3 | I saw in publishing a very nice example of that , not the word processing , but at John Wylies , who are a very big scientific publishers in Chichester , where they had a computer system which the editors — he 's the person who deals with the author , puts the book together — set about ordering the book ; the orders and that information went into the computer , when the thing was printed it went into the warehouse and the computer then organised the storage of all of these things in the warehouse . |
| 4 | I saw in publishing a very nice example of that — not the word processing — but at John Wylies , who are very big scientific publishers in Chichester , where they had a computer system which the editor — he 's the person who deals with the author , puts the book together — set about ordering the book , the orders and that information went into the computer , when the thing was printed it went into the warehouse and the computer then organised the storage of all of these things in the warehouse . |
| 5 | Did I tell you the name They 're place is called , oh there , there was er couple of weeks ago , they had a strip show |
| 6 | They became great friends and when they did that film in Africa they had a 15-hundredweight truck behind them absolutely full of whisky that followed them everywhere they went . |
| 7 | And as they went out from Bivar they had a crow on their right hand , and when they came to Burgos they had a crow on the left . |
| 8 | And as they went out from Bivar they had a crow on their right hand , and when they came to Burgos they had a crow on the left . |
| 9 | Unionists did not wish to stand down where they had a candidate of their own ready to fight ; in these circumstances , the NDP did remarkably well in 1918 , winning eleven seats , all in Labour strongholds where neither Unionists nor Coalition Liberals had much desire to stand , and they beat both MacDonald and Henderson . |
| 10 | They just put it on you see with a brush and it was a paste you see , all over the coach , and then they had a hose and they washed all that X mover off you see , the X mover was an acid and it ate into the you see , bodywork . |
| 11 | they had a barn just a little way from the house , you could see it but it |
| 12 | They were without hot water and numerous other comforts but they had a base they could call their own . |
| 13 | High time they had a fall , eh ? ’ |
| 14 | What mattered to Marx and Engels was therefore not so much the specific history which had produced these concepts , but the fact that they had a history at all , that the concepts were dependent on the type of society and economy in which they occurred . |
| 15 | They had a history of hearing loss for an average of 18 months . |
| 16 | Like just about everything , they had a history and , like most other phenomena based on biological processes — for the ego and superego , although purely psychological agencies , nevertheless require a brain in which to function — evolved over an extended period of time . |
| 17 | Patients were excluded from the study if they were pregnant or lactating , if they were expecting to undergo surgery , or if they had a history of concurrent gastric ulceration , renal insufficiency , alcoholism ( pure ethanol intake greater than 100 ml/day ( women ) or 120 ml/day ( men ) , or behaviour consistent with alcohol abuse ) , drug abuse , or language difficulties . |
| 18 | At the BASW conference they had a flip chart marked : ‘ Thoughts to share ’ . |
| 19 | They had a bed on the stage and they had red satin sheets on it |
| 20 | They had a suite , very sumptuous , in the Hotel Excelsior . |
| 21 | You know all the , the proprietors they ha , they have horses that pulled the co carriages they had a race . |
| 22 | They had a race , you know |
| 23 | Our Rally was just super — more people than before — But what they did n't know was that they had a treat in store : The National Display Team came for the afternoon To show their special item — we were all over the moon ! |
| 24 | And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get . |
| 25 | Oh they had a tap in the house , everybody had a tap in the house and they had their own toilets . |
| 26 | I do n't think they had a catapult out there . |
| 27 | And then they had a tip outside where the lorries backed into |
| 28 | There were a couple of men waiting for me in the car park tonight , said they had a message for me from a ‘ friend ’ that ran along the lines of warning me to keep my nose out of things that did n't concern me . ’ |
| 29 | They were silent as she walked through the door to the dining room , as if they had a secret . |
| 30 | And then they were giving up and going to America , they were going They had a sister . |