Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 2 | They 'd gone down a narrow alleyway — up North they 're called ‘ ginnels ’ but do n't ask me why ; I just observe , I do n't translate — which led to another alley at right-angles . |
| 3 | Researchers could n't be sure radon was such a danger until they 'd built up a complete picture . |
| 4 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 5 | The darkness was almost complete now ; she could only see the faintest outline of his features , enough to know that they 'd taken on a hard , determined cast . |
| 6 | They 'd got out the best china and crystal glasses , the damask napkins , the ebony-handled knives . |
| 7 | Would they have switched off the cold fountains in Trafalgar Square ? |
| 8 | That 's the theory … here 's the practical … first the course … they 've mapped out the 26 miles … the beauty of the route lies in the cobbled squares of ancient towns like Bhaktapur … the beast is the city … traffic and smoke is a major problem … the other unknown factor is altitude … |
| 9 | cos they 've seen exactly the same one for five hundred and twenty five quid |
| 10 | Mr Chairman , I , would like to slightly and trying not to be parochial , but having looked at the erm , figures , I , I just can not believe that those are honest figures , I mean there are eleven hundred and sixty nine people unemployed in Craven Arms or something like that , and they 've lost over a thousand jobs over the last few years , and erm , very few of those have been replaced . |
| 11 | Through word of mouth and demand from customers , they 've built up a sizable business with five drivers . |
| 12 | Over the last three years they 've built up a steady following , which is hardly surprising , since their stage show is one of the most acclaimed in local music . |
| 13 | , you had a built in , and on the left , they 've torn down the whole building . |
| 14 | Yeah , I mean , they 've torn down the whole building inside the big . |
| 15 | A government anti- hooligan committee has been sitting with the Football Association ; they 've drawn up a great body of information collated by the police football intelligence unit based in London . |
| 16 | It is being attacked daily by that real group of parasites , the Tory Party , the Tories will no doubt bring in workfare just as soon as they 've softened up the wider public with their slavish friends in the media . |
| 17 | When you look at certain letters , you can see that they 've got exactly the same features involved in them . |
| 18 | In this day and age , 100MB is average , and people quite often discover that they 've got only a few kilobytes of space left , and usually at the most inopportune times . |
| 19 | They 've got quite a nice it 's not a large house but it 's a good size lounge and dining room and kitchen . |
| 20 | on the road er They 've got quite a good selection now . |
| 21 | They 've got quite a few of these at erm at , at the Railway Trust , they 've er they 've got a number of these signal boxes . |
| 22 | No it 's changed the er they 've got quite a few plays going on , they 've got chess going on |
| 23 | and they 've got quite a big place at Harrogate where you could go for a day or two to observe what was going on and so on . |
| 24 | They do quite a , they 've got quite a big programme in Gosforth and Newcastle and |
| 25 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 26 | I do n't know , they 've sold out a dozen at Broadway this week , well int last fortnight , so White Gates were telling me , so , well if we do , we do , if the bungalow goes before we sell well , we 'll have to come and live with me mum until we find another one . |
| 27 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 28 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 29 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 30 | Now they 've come out the front door and the bus is running er coming down the road so they 're running for that bus , so they 're using up their energy , the insulin level 's there , but the energy level is going down . |