Example sentences of "they had [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While castles might be obtained by purchase , and exchanged to make for a more judicious distribution geographically , they had also to be manned with troops . |
| 2 | Just like a dance and they sung and they had just in each station you could hear them in Papa Stronsay we could hear them singing and dancing . |
| 3 | Similar thoughts may have crossed his mind one week into the run when , on the night set aside to entertain employees , families and friends of Irish Life — who were sponsoring the festival — Archaos refused to perform proclaiming to the gathered throng that they had yet to be paid . |
| 4 | Business came upon Tudor princes in a continuous stream of the important and the trivial , and they had little in the way of a bureaucratic substructure for deciding matters of executive detail . |
| 5 | But , you think they had most of them do do n't they ? |
| 6 | Those who practise witchcraft are , by definition , in the wrong : if they had right on their side they would hardly need to descend to such mean tricks as witchcraft . |
| 7 | Downing Street could n't turn down this gift horse for fear of offending the President but at the same time , they had nowhere for him to go so since March , Maxat , a champion racehorse , was stuck in these Turkmen stables waiting impatiently , getting flabby and fractious . |
| 8 | The fusion of a Country coalition in opposition to the Court in the early 1690s was assisted by the common experience of working on the Commission of Public Accounts , which led a number of Tories and Whigs to realise they had more in common with each other than with their supposed party allies at Court . |
| 9 | They had only about one hundred and fifty yards to gather speed and could not achieve a full gallop in the time . |
| 10 | Suddenly she felt a glowing warmth deep inside ; he could never betray her , could never sell what they had together for the cheap thrill of recounting an old , sordid story . |
| 11 | Why spoil what time they had together by sniping ? |
| 12 | In fact , they had less in common than their persecutors , or their hosts , believed . |
| 13 | Although Jonadab Oaks had never encouraged his girls to ride , as he did his sons , they had all on several occasions had a go at riding the horses owned by their father . |
| 14 | Members held raffles and donated cash until they had enough for the Olympic bar . |
| 15 | Moreover , the Germans had no desire to be saddled with more of BAOR 's sector of the front : they had enough on their hands under-pinning the Dutch and Belgian corps , whose military worth they had good reasons to doubt in the late 1950s . |
| 16 | They had yon before the board at Cranwell , did n't they ? |
| 17 | We saw things like they had yesterday for about four pounds . |
| 18 | not and they had like from end to the other |