Example sentences of "they have [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only reminded her of how she and Trish had hooted with laughter when they 'd seen the engraved invitations that had gone out in three languages for this evening 's showing . |
| 2 | ‘ If only they 'd kept the old Dicky Doyle cover , with a few blank pages inside , it 'd still be going ’ |
| 3 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |
| 4 | They 'd joined the International Terrorist Freemasonry … ’ |
| 5 | They 'd visited the old Mrs Scamp and then so had I and all I 'd found out was that she was Jo 's mother-in-law and probably had a picture of Hitler on her bedside table . |
| 6 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 7 | Dad ran a garage and petrol station on the main road through Strathspeld village and Mum had a wee gift and coffee shop ; Dad had been worried after the Six-Day War when they 'd introduced the fifty-miles-an-hour speed limit and even issued fuel-rationing books , but that had n't lasted very long and , even though petrol cost more nowadays , people were still travelling and using cars . |
| 8 | NASA scientists had thought they 'd solved the technical problems which have dogged the Space Agency . |
| 9 | They 'd left the other door wide open , and as Juliet passed , she caught sight of a rumpled bed with blue sheets . |
| 10 | ‘ I was caught at Dunkirk when they thought they 'd won the bloody war . |
| 11 | You know mother 'd used to come back so thrilled with all these slides they 'd had and they 'd had the local doctor as well . |
| 12 | Yeah I went and got it yesterday but they 'd had a break in and you should 've seen it they 'd smashed the front door , it were all smashed in . |
| 13 | Erm they had n't got a survey going , they 'd got coming round to have a look at it , and they 'd got the environmental health from London to have a survey of it , and er everything . |
| 14 | They all thought they 'd got the dreaded C , poor things . |
| 15 | come Saturday they 'd rearranged the whole ward and they put him on a W R V S air bed , he were in heaven on this bed , I said why the fuck could n't you have done that earlier ? |
| 16 | They 've become such regulars as they 've followed the national tour they now give the Star , Clayton Mark , a lift back to Cheltenham every Saturday night . |
| 17 | Now they 've made the whole workforce redundant , and will also have to issue redundancy pay . |
| 18 | That 's what they 've made the old Anglesey Road hospital into . |
| 19 | Perhaps they 've heard the economic forecast . |
| 20 | Oxfam aid workers say they 've become the new targets in the war in Somalia . |
| 21 | The number of women elected to the Church 's Parliament is double that of last time , and those in favour of women priests , are confident that they 've secured the required majority to have their way by nineteen ninety five . |
| 22 | ‘ As usual , they 've missed the whole point they did n't need an inquiry , it 's obvious what went wrong , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Now it 's on the financial and administrative side that I suspect that the Home Office is concerned about and I believe they 've gone the wrong way about it . |
| 24 | Oh th , they 've done the old lamp . |
| 25 | So that 's why they 've named the new wing after her . |
| 26 | Well they know that , and if there 's a machine that 'll do the job , and if , when they 've pressed the right buttons they can look at the answer and say ‘ Yes , three point four 's about right ’ and so on , then that 's good enough for me . |
| 27 | It 's the first time for 11 years they 've reached the final stages . |
| 28 | But bosses at the famous casino , which has staged some of boxing 's greatest world title fights , are confident they 've scooped the big prize . |
| 29 | I I thought you might in fact but I mean when it was first taken we first looked at the tape , people in there were n't sure so Oh that 's good news oh that helps a lot because they 've tried The original Moneytalk was developed on VAX V M S |
| 30 | Either they 're not in residential accommodation at all , or they 've bought the damn thing . |