Example sentences of "they have [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his son are largely responsible for the countless impressions of Rembrandt 's graphic works , repeatedly reworking the plates so that Rembrandt 's authorship of them has become something of an ethical dilemma . |
| 2 | Without them having to ask us for the address . |
| 3 | Well , I see they 've instructed you in the story of your birth , since you had so thriving a grudge against me . |
| 4 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 5 | They were adamant that it had been clear all along , they 'd suspected something from the start . |
| 6 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 7 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 8 | They 'd kept him in a kiosk on Brighton front day and night waiting for the Germans to invade . |
| 9 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 10 | By the time they 'd stowed everything in the boot of the Ferrari and driven to a hilltop where , Nicolo said , they would have the best view , the sun was a fiery ball low on the hills . |
| 11 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 12 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 13 | My parents were fond of travel , and they 'd brought me on a trip , long before people had even heard of package holidays . |
| 14 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
| 15 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 16 | But not wishing to have the bother of carrying them , they 'd left them on a chair in the kitchen . |
| 17 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 18 | I mean that 's why we went on a Thursday and they 'd changed their as a chap that seems very strange to me ! |
| 19 | Something seemed to have excited them , they 'd found something on the foreshore . |
| 20 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 21 | They 'd thrown her into a Jeep and driven her into the Heide , through the woods , to a large wooden building hidden in the trees . |
| 22 | Anyhow , ’ he continued , ‘ the three of us spent the day locked in consultation , as Marc called it , the result being that he came charging to my rescue , routed the two con-merchants , who thought they 'd got me over a barrel , and generally behaved like the perfect human being he is . ’ |
| 23 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 24 | The tomatoes were black as though they 'd forgot they were frying them , they looked like they 'd stuck them on a grill and just left them there |
| 25 | To see Di Stefano , Puskas and Gento caress and flick the ball , to see their back-heel passes and drag-backs and overhead kicks , was to realise that our school-yard coaches had it wrong when they 'd hectored us into a kick-and-run , ‘ fixed bayonets ’ type of football . |
| 26 | Did they have to sit him in a swivel chair that swung sideways with every movement of his body ? |
| 27 | Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like |
| 28 | They 've invited you to the wedding . ’ |
| 29 | One old man hauled into a police van declared : ‘ They 've invited us to the birthday celebrations , do n't you see ! ’ |
| 30 | The bothy was in Pat 's family , and they 've made it into a lovely home . |