Example sentences of "[pron] they have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No they were , that 's what they were were n't it when it all happened , the old Revered somebody or other , they wilful murder but erm yeah basically it does n't seem like , there was no real evidence as to who erm fired first and there was no conclusion that the about that , but they were certainly I R A gunmen , para 's , its like without a doubt if you know some people , but like with those high powered weapons they may , alright its unfortunately that somebody may have got shot , but it may not of been the main shot , that may , may of been a ricochet or , or anything like that , both their they 've got a killing range of up to three mile so one mate come round , he says he 's gon na come round again tomorrow and have a look at it |
| 2 | In Northern Nigeria , he succeeded in detaching the judicial system and the technical departments from the grip of the administrative service , whose claims to omnipotence and omnicompetence were thereby permanently reduced from the heights to which they had risen a decade before . |
| 3 | A family who lived there befriended us , looked after our bags and , solicitous of each other , we took turns on the one spare seat from which they had moved a child . |
| 4 | The financial rationale of the great companies had been the way in which they had enabled a generation of investors , most of whom were substantial , to become merchants by proxy . |
| 5 | Winchelsey learnt of this bull in December 1296 and published it in the assembly of January 1297 , called to consider the royal demand made in November on which they had deferred a decision . |
| 6 | The kitemark and logo of the ACRG signify that successful students have completed a planned programme of studies involving at least 500 study hours by which they have achieved a level of attainment appropriate for admission to higher education . |
| 7 | As for Unix , Morales said that Stratus has met similar problems to other manufacturers — many customers are n't willing to alter systems in which they have invested a lot of money and personnel over the years . |
| 8 | In practice , people are very reluctant to give up a theory in which they have invested a lot of time and effort . |
| 9 | Mind you they have done a bit more to it since Wiggie 's been there in as much as she 's had a big curtain put across |
| 10 | Well in one they 've got a roof over their head and in the other they have n't , I would 've thought that was a rather major difference . |
| 11 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 12 | Where George Eliot tends simply to employ terms from painting in the description of her great houses , Henry James , for whom they have retreated a stage further , actually presents them in the two dimensions of paint . |
| 13 | ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day . |
| 14 | You told me they 'd got a set of keys . |
| 15 | Like her they were teenagers , like her they had enjoyed a smash hit first single , like her they had happened to have come from somewhere other than Britain . |
| 16 | And the s the trees they would like to come was the pines and the pines because they they 've got a mop like of of leaves do you see , and they were well sheltered there , among these . |