Example sentences of "they have [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them were in a terrible state because they 'd had an electric shock from the lightning . |
| 2 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've made an excellent job of it , Janet . ’ |
| 4 | Six months after a seventy year old man was found beaten to death in his home , police say they 've made an important breakthrough . |
| 5 | But for the rest of us they 've built an exact replica near by at Lascaux Two . ’ |
| 6 | They 've lodged an official complaint against the police , who they say were treating the case as suicide . |
| 7 | Revlon 's Ecologie range , therefore , has what they 've called an Environmental Protection System , and contains vitamin E , said to help protect our bodies against free radicals . |
| 8 | OK , I often employ builders on the basis that they 've got an honest face only to find they 've nicked my buckets , added unnegotiated noughts on to their invoices and buggered up the plumbing but … |
| 9 | They 've got an international training centre there , which used to be a monastery . |
| 10 | The Coach Council say they 've got an enviable safety record . |
| 11 | Lothian and Borders are facing a shortage of dogs to train in police work so they 've issued an urgent appeal for information on suitable animals in the Edinbugh area . |
| 12 | Once they 've found an easy supply of fish , Herons will soon wipe out the contents of your ponds . |
| 13 | Detectives investigating the murder of a man who was killed at his engagement party say they 've had an encouraging response to their appeals for information . |
| 14 | Mind you not that they 've had an awful lot of success recently but they are , really are a cocky lot . |
| 15 | They 've had an independent survey . |
| 16 | Adrian says they 've had an incredible response to the new boat … the best ever … they 've had interest worldwide from Japan to South America |
| 17 | National Judo Coach , Mike Ilott , says they 've had an excellent response . |
| 18 | People would believe that it was unnecessary to dispute the matter and that they had received an additional benefit for the injury that had been forced upon them . |
| 19 | Despite a reference to the full accounts and their availability it did not , however , explicitly indicate that they had received an unqualified audit report . |
| 20 | About one quarter of primary and secondary schools indicated that they had prepared an explicit statement of the health education aims of the school for both staff and pupils . |
| 21 | So when I stumbled against him and threw my arms round his neck he just stood there , unmoving except for a slight step backwards to keep his balance — though I thought I felt his hands touch my waist for just an instant as if they had made an automatic move to hold me which he had cancelled . |
| 22 | Families where there has been a murder find that people are more reluctant to talk to them than if they had suffered an ordinary bereavement — sometimes even crossing the street to avoid them . |
| 23 | Last night , Newcastle had totalled just 24 points and Boro 30 , while the favourites Edinburgh Monarchs were top of the pile with 97 , although they had raced an extra leg . |
| 24 | So , Bath surrendered a league point on the grounds that they had fielded an ineligible player , New Zealander Laurie Heatherley , against London Irish . |
| 25 | The Serbian authorities were also preventing 350,000 Albanian pupils and students from re-entering school because they had followed an Albanian curriculum . |
| 26 | The Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) and the centrist Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) announced on April 10 that they had reached an electoral accord providing for a system of " primaries " for the presidential elections scheduled for 1995 and for " common candidates " in regional and legislative elections scheduled for 1992 and 1993 respectively . |
| 27 | They had wanted an outright victory leading to the expulsion of all ‘ fundamentalists ’ , whereas the document allows everyone to join the new party . |
| 28 | They had shot an old man alone in a row boat ! |
| 29 | The arrests came soon after they had sent an open letter to Sassou Nguesso calling for multiparty democracy . |
| 30 | By this time , too , the citizens of Rome had been excluded from papal elections ; they had formed an important pressure group in the past . |