Example sentences of "[that] they have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | then it says to the , the apostles that they 'd approached a Mount Zion and a city of a living God , heavenly |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ That they 've lost a feeder . |
| 8 | 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a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 9 | A lot of them want to just talk , to feel secure that they 've seen a policeman . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Erm and er , they say , you know , therefore they do n't feel that they 've got a voice . |
| 12 | And and a and if you like an affirmation that they 've got a future with us . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | And that they 've got a job . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 , |
| 17 | ’ … 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 . ’ |
| 18 | It follows claims by the right-wing British National Party that they 've launched a recruitment drive in the area . |
| 19 | The unrest then subsided unexpectedly , but police rejected as unfounded the rumours that they had struck a deal with the criminal syndicates . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Quite apart from blackmail the New Zealand police had no proof that either Mafart or Prieur had planted the bombs so when the two appeared in court in Auckland on 4 November 1985 the prosecution announced that they had accepted a plea of manslaughter . |
| 22 | It was almost as if he felt that they had made a fool of him in 1945 – 46 and was trying to atone for his naiveté . |
| 23 | I HAVE no doubt that the vandals who defaced Bomber Harris 's statue are feeling pretty smug and probably thinking that they had made a point for Dresden . |
| 24 | They denied that they had adopted a plan for guerrilla warfare and denied that the ANC was communist . |
| 25 | The RJO also confirmed that they had received a video tape from Israel of an interview carried out recently with Shaikh Abdel-Karim Obeid . |
| 26 | Gorbachev , in his response to the results , nonetheless claimed that they had received a mandate for the ‘ renewal and strengthening of the union state ’ and promised to press ahead with the conclusion of the union treaty and a new constitution . |
| 27 | Colonel Philips explained that they had thought initially that they had discovered a danger similar to that which had caused the Hob 's Lane disaster . |
| 28 | It was not just that they had lost a friend through death , but the death that Jesus had suffered was long and cruel , and above all it was unjust . |
| 29 | Venture capital giant 3i had not used executive search at all in the past four years but mentioned that they had lost a number of people through headhunters . |
| 30 | It was not until the early years of the twentieth century that they had devised a formula for their boot polish which was marketed later under the name of ‘ Cherry Blossom Boot Polish ’ which became such a success , being sold at one penny per tin . |