Example sentences of "[coord] they have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they 're pregnant or they 've got a little baby . |
| 2 | And they 've made a good job of tiling have n't they ? |
| 3 | So she went and they 've made a lovely job of it ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Saatchi brothers salaries have been cut by a half and they 've appointed a new man . |
| 6 | And they 've got a bloody outside toilet have n't they ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " They 're always stealing something or other and they 've got a good eye for a thoroughbred . " |
| 9 | ‘ They 've got a policeman in charge of the Ministry of Information , and they 've got a daft Prime Minister in Edith Cresson . |
| 10 | And they 've got a vast learning queue . |
| 11 | And they 've got a nice young fellow to play Ophelia . ’ |
| 12 | and they 've got a whole market to go |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | and they 've got a lovely wardrobe in white |
| 17 | and they 've got a lovely beigey mixture , like aran-type wool |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | South Devon Healthcare Trust say it was a sudden and motiveless attack and they 've launched a full inquiry . |
| 20 | ‘ And they 've had a bad press . |
| 21 | And they had suffered a great loss when John Crabb , their notable leader , had been captured by the English on his return from his ill-fated venture to the Tay and Perth in support of Mar . |
| 22 | The early Earth-people had not given up on anything ; they had conquered and explored and invented and they had made a marvellous and memorable world . |
| 23 | Dmitri agreed with her , and they had had a passionate argument last night with Marchak , who drove racing cars , and Frolovna , who had loved a matador for two weeks in Spain . |
| 24 | She had only met them once and they had seemed a friendly and most devoted couple . |
| 25 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And they 'd learnt a fair bit in the war , with their OSS Office of Strategic Services , same as our SOE . |
| 27 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 28 | And they have joined a national campaign launched in London yesterday by Re-Solv , the national society for the prevention of solvent abuse . |
| 29 | And they have become a Trojan Horse to undermine some very basic and strongly-held principles of welfare and the welfare state . ’ |
| 30 | What makes her set-up different is that husband Roland is also an accountant with his own practice , and they have developed a symbiotic business relationship that allows both to work and share in organising the family . |