Example sentences of "and they [vb base] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 've made a good job of tiling have n't they ? |
| 2 | So she went and they 've made a lovely job of it ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Saatchi brothers salaries have been cut by a half and they 've appointed a new man . |
| 5 | And they 've got a bloody outside toilet have n't they ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " They 're always stealing something or other and they 've got a good eye for a thoroughbred . " |
| 8 | ‘ They 've got a policeman in charge of the Ministry of Information , and they 've got a daft Prime Minister in Edith Cresson . |
| 9 | And they 've got a vast learning queue . |
| 10 | And they 've got a nice young fellow to play Ophelia . ’ |
| 11 | 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 |
| 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 | And they 've picked a .38 Special out of Lemke 's liver . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | South Devon Healthcare Trust say it was a sudden and motiveless attack and they 've launched a full inquiry . |
| 21 | ‘ And they 've had a bad press . |
| 22 | Often the councillors are the same people who have gone to live in the pleasanter parts of rural England for peace and quiet , and they tend to take a dim view if local farmers apply for licences to run money-earning , but intrusive , leisure pursuits such as motor bike scrambling , model aeroplane clubs , clay pigeon shooting , go-carting and jet skiing . |
| 23 | There are now some 1500 hakims still practising their Byzantine medicine in Delhi , and they appear to do a thriving business . |
| 24 | And they do represent a little slice of history … |
| 25 | In fact I 've known people to go right in , so it , it , it 's not a simple job , you know , and they do take a great deal of risk with this , and I do , I mean it 's much more serious than I think than the government find , it should really work hard to try , to try to find something else . |
| 26 | They have now been accepted by the CNAA as being equal and acceptable degree qualifications where appropriate and they do mark a major attempt at the rationalization of art and design education below degree level . |
| 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 . |