Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course the woman was n't really one of theirs , just some distant freelance , and the back-up with her was some nutty amateur they 'd had to use at the last moment — |
| 2 | Although it 's two years later they 've got to resell at the price that er it 's been discounted more or less . |
| 3 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
| 4 | They 've continued to dig at the back of a house in Swindons Old Town . |
| 5 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 6 | They had arranged to meet at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 7 | The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ . |
| 8 | Older women were least likely to be eligible because they had started working at the factory when the married women 's option ( i.e. to pay reduced NI contributions ) was in full operation and the majority had not considered it financially worthwhile to pay full contributions . |
| 9 | He had taken his boys to the river , they had played tennis with some people they had got to know at the boathouse ; he had gone mushrooming in the early morning with the youngest one , whom the lethargy of youth had not yet struck . |
| 10 | And even in this conformity the detectives are moving away from the uniform policeman 's concept of correct dress , for they are wearing ‘ civvy ’ clothing like those despised outsiders they have learned to keep at a distance . |