Example sentences of "[verb] they have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sidney , do you know they 've got a hundred and ten golf courses . |
| 2 | And then he just never went to school and they maintained they 'd got a private . |
| 3 | We were looking forward to some exercise of rowing , but typically when we arrived , we found they had prepared a gondola-like craft ( of a kind emperors used to go in ) on which we were meant to sit and be gently punted around while we sedately drank tea . |
| 4 | Both Mike and Brian say they 've gained a great deal … |
| 5 | 2 further people were arrested during the search and police say they 've recovered a substantial sum of money , eight stolen cars and a shotgun . |
| 6 | Scientists say they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , but it means regular checks on the volunteers . |
| 7 | Scientists say they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , but it means regular checks on the volunteers . |
| 8 | Police say they 've arrested a thirty eight year old man and a twenty six year old woman . |
| 9 | An and they ring up and they say they 've had a cold all week and they ca n't put up with it a minute longer |
| 10 | They say they had to stop a passing cleaner to take a plate from her trolley |
| 11 | General Motors of America believed they had made a major breakthrough into the British market in 1985 when they persuaded Foster Yeoman to buy four specially constructed 3,300hp locomotives to haul heavy stone traffic from their Merehead quarry to locations in the South East . |
| 12 | She says they 've had a good time . |
| 13 | The education authority says they 've launched a major recruitment drive but with the children due to start secondary school in September parents are now writing to local councils and M Ps . |
| 14 | Hill and Williams had earlier revealed they had agreed a one-year contract , with an option for a further two years . |
| 15 | ‘ I hope they 've gone a long way , ’ said Pascoe . |
| 16 | Yeah well they 've had they 've had a big today . |
| 17 | ‘ Some people are told they have to work a nine to five gig or be the trendiest person on earth or whatever . |
| 18 | Mark reckons they 've done a good job on the water have they ? |
| 19 | If they last twenty years before being replaced they have done a good service . |
| 20 | Quarters again yeah and give them another quarter out of this so they get they 've got a whole one each and then we 've got two left over . |
| 21 | The Sharrock family know they 've had a lucky escape ; any one or all of them could have been injured , or even killed , when someone threw a brick at their car from an overhead footbridge . |
| 22 | Now I reckon they are doing everything they can to keep me there as long as possible , because when I go they know they 've got a real master-blaster like Chris coming in . ’ |
| 23 | And I mean I , I find some clients are really lucky , you know they 've got a few fiddly bits of issues and they keep getting fifty pounds here and fifty pounds there , |
| 24 | There is no doubt the uniform policemen see their one-time associates in the CID as having crossed a divide , while the detectives know they have joined a closed and somewhat élite family group , whose strengths include the inside support of other members of that society . |
| 25 | People ran from the blocks to the lavatories and back with pinched faces and sat in their rooms wishing they had saved a little coal . |
| 26 | And Nick , just before you go , I said before you came on ‘ Abingdon Town clear at the top , but they do have they have played a few more games in their chases ’ , but I gather the results elsewhere went your way today . |
| 27 | We 're gon na have to get a tyre gauge I reckon they 've got a new depth of tread one point six millimetres which is bigger than the . |
| 28 | Doctors believe they 've made a significant breakthrough in the fight against one of Britain 's fastest growing illnesses . |
| 29 | Now scientists working at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford believe they 've made a significant discovery in how asthma is passed down the family tree . |
| 30 | The homœopathic Pharmacopoeias officially advocate ten succussions as the number to use when preparing C potencies , but I believe they have missed a small point when interpreting Hahnemann 's reasons for change . |