Example sentences of "they have [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd just survived a crash and had over-reacted . |
| 2 | Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets . |
| 3 | Health and safety cour training courses according to these reports these are poorly attended with a majority below forty percent but more worrying than that is that nearly half of G M B safety reps said they 'd not received a copy of the safety rep 's kits . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , dottore , they knew I was there before I got out of the car , before they 'd even had a glimpse of me . ’ |
| 5 | It 's just slightly off er , the track at the moment , if you were writing a living assurance plan for someone , and they 'd already got a Covermaster plan , |
| 6 | And they 'd still got a majority of ten percent , you see the fifteen percent went as well , you see ? |
| 7 | Yes they 'd still got a lot of those tins left . |
| 8 | They , they 'd still got , anyway they 'd still got a lot of tinned stuff |
| 9 | This was n't strictly true as they 'd all had a go on the board . |
| 10 | So if they 're going to christen you Walter they 'd better put a couple of names in front of it , one for your spell in the pram plus another for the long haul up to becoming Walter . |
| 11 | nearly thirty years ago , erm , we used to sell the old glass bowl fitting on er three chains , hanging from the ceiling and that , and I used to buy those in a crate of about fifty at a time , and er most of the houses had two lighting points in the lounge anyway so , and they 'd always wanted a pair and we used to have them in the shop on a display so that about eight of them could all be lit up at once and people could see them and if they did n't like those then the , we could always put another one under the set if we 'd got one in a certain colour , we could hang one of those up and er they could look at that and see what it looked like . |
| 12 | This word was said in such a way , and accompanied by a look , that told the woman behind the counter that she did n't know her business , because they 'd never had a pennorth of tiger nuts . |
| 13 | There were thousands of paparazzi and fans because they 'd never had a world premiere in Houston before . |
| 14 | They 'd never had a Christmas day quite like that before . |
| 15 | To be fair , the C E C have not tried to say that everything in the garden is rosy , they 've also highlighted a number of problem areas that still exist . |
| 16 | So prices have tend to have fallen on world markets for agricultural goods because of support right , and they 've also become a lot more volatile and that , and that is the er the source of the international frustration with erm the common agricultural policy and this is why we 've got agriculture er being introduced into the G A T T. Not only does it impose huge costs on domestic tax payers and consumers , it also in incurs erm a large cost on third country exporters , right now if you think that most of those countries may well be developing countries and agricultural output is their only source of foreign exchange erm then er the policies of the rich countries in the West are erm a actively erm hindering the development prospects of developing countries alright and that may not be the desired intention . |
| 17 | They 've also got a song called ‘ Creep ’ ( the next single , natch ) , which has a habit of making innocent bystanders go , ‘ Jeez , what the f— is THAT ? ’ |
| 18 | They 've also got a boxing club for about seventy boys . |
| 19 | Cos you have erm is normally four , four , sorry tenth and eleventh years in sixth formers , and they 've also got a subject choice section as well , which I have used in the past for ninth years and it wa , it just got them thinking about things in a completely different way from what we , they 've ever done |
| 20 | They 've just got a snooker team and a golf club and |
| 21 | Well , well they 've just sold a player to Leicester for eighty five thousand and they , they bought a fella from Port Vale on a free transfer , well he 's a Richard they 've bought him back again , only with a , all due respect but er now he 's got he 's playing very well with Leicester now , and he 's , he 's scored two goals and made one the other Saturday , and , and everyone , every match since he 's been there every time he 's played . |
| 22 | Now , they 've just won a £50,000 order to supply 59 instrumenmts to a new Museum of Music in Taiwan . |
| 23 | And they 've just won a tourist award for providing some of the best accomodation in the area . |
| 24 | when they 've just had a call in , to start on Monday . |
| 25 | ‘ The Inspirals look like they 've just had a charisma bypass operation . ’ |
| 26 | She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ? |
| 27 | HEART op patients often wake thinking they 've just had a baby — even if they 're men , according to American doctors . |
| 28 | It 's all been condensed into two hours , and they 've even built a replica set of city gates over an old railway bridge . |
| 29 | They 've even got a telephone so you can open an account now , then phone each time you run out of anything . ’ |
| 30 | Er , oh that particular one was one of erm I do n't know if they 've even got a lighting showroom in London now , er |