Example sentences of "[conj] they 've [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they 're pregnant or they 've got a little baby . |
| 2 | Whereas the least grown-up people I know , although they 've got a tremendous value for society so bless them anyway , are ‘ artists ’ . |
| 3 | The Tory led authority says they 've been so successful in collecting the tax , that they 've earmarked a hundred and seventy thousand pounds to help cut future bills . |
| 4 | He says that they 've had a three man gang picking up peoples rubbish for the last seven years . |
| 5 | Mind you not that they 've had an awful lot of success recently but they are , really are a cocky lot . |
| 6 | I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is ! |
| 7 | Yes , I 've just heard Alan say that they 've got a young side , and we 're similar over here , we 're playing in a good standard of football . |
| 8 | Well , the trouble is that they 've got a closed |
| 9 | OK , I often employ builders on the basis that they 've got an honest face only to find they 've nicked my buckets , added unnegotiated noughts on to their invoices and buggered up the plumbing but … |
| 10 | Got it back , there was erm a blanket in the boot and when they took the blanket out it was all ten thousand pounds worth of drugs and needles and everything in it , so the police have took it all back and they 've written it off , so they 've got a new Nissan , a Bluebird |
| 11 | Once they 've found an easy supply of fish , Herons will soon wipe out the contents of your ponds . |
| 12 | And they 've made a good job of tiling have n't they ? |
| 13 | So she went and they 've made a lovely job of it ! |
| 14 | It was a real nice place two years ago ; nothing but luxury houses for the super-rich , but then the snakes bought it and they 've painted a big yellow cross on their runway . |
| 15 | Saatchi brothers salaries have been cut by a half and they 've appointed a new man . |
| 16 | And they 've got a bloody outside toilet have n't they ? |
| 17 | When you look at Lincolnshire and they 've got a Chief Inspector as a force crime prevention officer and they 've got an inspector as a deputy force crime prevention officer , and their crime is a third of ours , or well less than a third of ours , y y you start getting things into perspective and I think they 're trying to put too much work onto a too over-worked task force already . |
| 18 | " They 're always stealing something or other and they 've got a good eye for a thoroughbred . " |
| 19 | ‘ They 've got a policeman in charge of the Ministry of Information , and they 've got a daft Prime Minister in Edith Cresson . |
| 20 | And they 've got a vast learning queue . |
| 21 | And they 've got a nice young fellow to play Ophelia . ’ |
| 22 | she tell you it was a , the answer should have been a hundred and twenty nine and they 've got a thirty one in it yeah |
| 23 | and they 've got a whole market to go |
| 24 | you end up with like all these books and they 've got a different , different sort of er perspective on it and they 've got |
| 25 | Because there 's a special offer erm on erm there 's a , there 's a Forte Hotel in Woodbridge in Suffolk which is a nice hotel and they 've got a special offer for erm five nights for the price of three ! |
| 26 | Erm like any job you have your ups and your downs , it 's very nice when you see people getting better or you 've followed somebody through their pregnancy and they 've got a lovely bouncy baby at the end of it and sometimes it 's sad when you find out that somebody has got a serious illness or you 're looking after people where somebody has died and it , it 's very hard for the people left behind to cope and so that 's very difficult sometimes . |
| 27 | and they 've got a lovely wardrobe in white |
| 28 | and they 've got a lovely beigey mixture , like aran-type wool |
| 29 | And they 've picked a .38 Special out of Lemke 's liver . ’ |
| 30 | Police believe some residents of Blackbird Leys are shielding the culprits and they 've organised a confidential phone line which people can ring without giving their names and addresses . |