Example sentences of "[adv] they have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
2 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
3 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
4 | Perhaps they 'd had a row or something . |
5 | So they 've heard a lot about what happens here and they 've had the opportunity to look around . |
6 | So they 've got a K in |
7 | Oh so they 'd made a mistake . |
8 | The experts at Poly know that we want more from a perm than just curl so they have formulated a product that does much more . |
9 | Together they have provided a record events sponsorship of nearly £100,000 , sum which will enable the Trust to stage eighteen concerts . |
10 | Somehow they had kept a fire smouldering here . |
11 | I do n't mind if they 're older and like they 've got a profession and all that but I mean |
12 | see like , now they 've gone a bit quieter now , have you noticed ? |
13 | Now they 've arranged a meeting with Thamesdown Borough Council to demand action . |
14 | Now they 've taken a plunge into the dive computer market and the outcome is the DataMax Sport . |
15 | Ten City have had three massive club hits without selling any records , and now they 've got a chart hit . |
16 | they 're gon na stop soon now they 've got a house . |
17 | Father 's this chap she 's now they 've bought a house down near fruit packing . |
18 | Until now they have represented a mass of public opinion which is noisy rather than articulate , and more remarkable for its courage than its ability to coalesce as an organised force . |
19 | But so far they 'd drawn a blank in that direction . |
20 | So far they have produced a list of 16 blocks of work ! |
21 | When you listen to one of the rather better Kylie records , they have taken a girl who does n't really have a great voice , who is an actress , and slowly they have developed a career where she actually now has a sound which is similar to some of the girly groups in the 60 ’ s , in a totally different way . |
22 | And for the women you know I mean it 's i in a situation you probably I do n't know you know this comment that , Oh my my wife 's gon na nag me back to work , or whatever that was made in the beginning probably could be that the women were saying , Oh my God you know we ca n't afford to have you on strike just accept it you know just I 'm definitely not I think really they have felt they have really changed fund fundamentally they 've found a self confidence that they can say no you know it 's not good enough . |
23 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
24 | Well they 've got a computer up in number two , and I went in tonight they 're playing chuffing Grand Prix . |
25 | Well they 've got a boot ! |
26 | well they 've got a guest house where they rent , they let five of the rooms off in the summer to such millionaires |
27 | If Liz and Owen had n't had that accident , which brought us together to look after the twins , we might never have found each other again ! ’ she cried , feeling almost faint as she fell back on the pillows , hardly able to bear the thought of how narrowly they had averted a lifetime of unhappiness . |
28 | Plainly they had interrupted a mourning tea party . |
29 | Three weeks earlier they had devoted a page to the story that another of his girlfriends , actress Rebecca Broussard , aged twenty-six , was expecting his baby , revealing that he was ‘ excitedly looking forward to playing daddy , but the bed-jumping Joker has flatly told Rebecca that he had no intention of marrying her . ’ |
30 | er they say , and if then they 've made a mistake you have done what you are told , I mean if you take a big ladder and it 's only a wee fire , a small car bump and then there is a big fire later on , somewhere else and they have n't got their , the right appliances because you 're at that place with the wrong stuff , then that would cause problems would n't it ? |