Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 2 | My Uncle Stan and Aunt Alice are very good to me and more than good to Carrie , they 've given her a start in life she would never have had here . |
| 3 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations . |
| 5 | Now she came away thinking I 've got this secondhand car and they 've given me a warranty . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've given me a roomette or some such , but I take this thing seriously . |
| 7 | They 've given him a price just for painting the walls . |
| 8 | Yeah they 've charged me a fiver 's fucking commission on that . |
| 9 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 10 | Well they 've sent you a letter from hospital . |
| 11 | They 've brought you a farewell present but they think it 's just too big . |
| 12 | An example of that would be if you bought a new pocket calculator and then find it wo n't work then the legal position is the shop have broken their contract with you , because they 've sold you a pocket calculator which is not of merchantable quality , and you should be entitled to money back in a case like that . |
| 13 | They 've sponsored us a consultancy , |
| 14 | Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility . |
| 15 | They 've had it a bit too easy I think . |
| 16 | Returning Edward the proofs of his book , Helen commented : ‘ This has indeed been a fair spring for us , though they had made it a winter . |
| 17 | Before either of them could say a word , he turned and began to speak as though they had asked him a question . |
| 18 | They had given her a list . |
| 19 | But to teach the man a lesson they had given him a supply of twigs that were old and weak ; poor twigs for making brooms with . |
| 20 | They had sent him a WPC who looked like a schoolgirl dressed in police uniform for a school play . |
| 21 | I got my membership booklet today ( at first I though they had sent me a season ticket by mistake ) . |
| 22 | ‘ They had sent me a tape of four songs ; one was called Down And Out and Squonk was another . |
| 23 | The man in the doorway was certainly old and infirm , and none too reliable either , but when he ceased to be of any use to the Guild as a working docker , they had found him a sinecure job as night watchman on the Wharf . |
| 24 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ They have made it a priority to discover a Yorkshire-born non-white player to play for them . |
| 26 | Working in the sometimes difficult Philadelphia Memorial Hall where CBS , RCA and EMI teams have produced variable sonic results in the past , they have given us a balance which is tonally on the bright side and acoustically rather dry . |
| 27 | They have offered me a bodyguard . |
| 28 | They have brought you a collection of 500 packets of seeds , each packet containing seed from several individual plants — which appeared similar — in a single locality . |