Example sentences of "[conj] they have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having located the house , he had roared into Belfast and met Mallachy at the Wellington Park , where they 'd had a pint of Guinness beneath the photos of the famous actors . |
| 2 | And I saw a hole in the bottom at the side of it where they had blasted a hole in it in order to sink it . |
| 3 | A Crown lawyer said that Hall had gone to the Co Galway resort of Salthill with a group of friends where they had rented a house for a week last July . |
| 4 | I think it 's a stigma that a lot of men feel they ca n't show that they 're depressed or they 've got a problem so they 'll pick up a ph , a phone . |
| 5 | Erm you know people know the answers questions or they 've got an idea material of your own experience you know a lot more than they do , but it 's good technique to throw it back to the group . |
| 6 | erm people were starting to move out , and I think that , I think quite a lot of people , well although they 'd had a lot of information from the Local Authority , were still very unsure about how that would affect other benefits , in particular supplementary benefits , and single payments , and that , that , grants for , for the furniture , that kind of thing . |
| 7 | Although they had cost a mint , Aunt Tossie felt they were well worth the money , a fitting background for her darling . |
| 8 | Although they have reached an impasse , lasting either a year or 22 years , according to one 's point of view , they must keep trying . |
| 9 | But they sounded more hollow than they had done a year earlier , and were certainly less widespread . |
| 10 | The West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit found recently that , while part-time work was increasing in their area , women were actually being paid a lower percentage of local full-time wages than they had received a decade ago . |
| 11 | Perhaps they meant it , but he died of a fever his first winter here and it must have seemed to him that they 'd broken a promise . |
| 12 | I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five . |
| 13 | Not all the transactions were strictly honest , though , and sometimes customers got home to discover that they 'd bought a cat or a puppy , thus that expression and an expression bonus : ‘ letting the cat out of the bag ’ . |
| 14 | then it says to the , the apostles that they 'd approached a Mount Zion and a city of a living God , heavenly |
| 15 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 16 | They 're keeping quiet at the moment saying simply that they 've invested a lot in new technology and models , and their cars are doing well against others in the country . |
| 17 | ‘ That they 've lost a feeder . |
| 18 | Or is it , is it that they 've become a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 19 | A lot of them want to just talk , to feel secure that they 've seen a policeman . |
| 20 | In Wallingford , many of the companies still in business are concerned enough about their survival , that they 've formed a business group who 's aim is to increase co-operation in the town and provide some mutual support . |
| 21 | Erm and er , they say , you know , therefore they do n't feel that they 've got a voice . |
| 22 | And and a and if you like an affirmation that they 've got a future with us . |
| 23 | Okay , they 're poor paid , but at least they would have the pride of saying that they 've got a job whereas the elderly are having to just sit at home and turning down their fires and turning down their central heating in case they ca n't afford their bills ! |
| 24 | And that they 've got a job . |
| 25 | I went to my old school in West Ham recently to talk to the children there and er the master to me that they 've got a bomb trail . |
| 26 | They , they think now that they 've got a feeling that this might be taken out , all these testing schemes and stuff because I said to them , While their argument is that while she 's doing these SAT schemes , and she 's following this , she 's all worked up , |
| 27 | ’ … told me , ’ said Tessa 's voice hours or minutes later , ‘ that they 've borrowed a lot of money from the bank to do some conversion work in their flat . ’ |
| 28 | It follows claims by the right-wing British National Party that they 've launched a recruitment drive in the area . |
| 29 | The unrest then subsided unexpectedly , but police rejected as unfounded the rumours that they had struck a deal with the criminal syndicates . |
| 30 | In the course of this epic journey Sadler and his companion calculated that they had flown a distance of not less than 112 miles in one hour and twenty minutes . |