Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 2 | ‘ I hear they 've got a camera in the stumps ’ |
| 3 | They 'd planned a trip to Warwick Castle , but she could n't get the time off . |
| 4 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 5 | He 'd heard about St Manicus : they 'd done a project on him at school . |
| 6 | The leader hesitated and looked at the bandmaster , who said that they 'd like to but after they 'd played a request for us . |
| 7 | Well , not that bad really , but they 'd laden a van in London bound for Torquay , and managed to overfill it somewhat , so that when membership services executive Kevin Ramage ( driver ) and conference executive Meryl Halls ( navigator ) were stopped on the road to Torquay and instructed by the police to proceed to the nearest weighbridge , they were found to be in contravention of the law . |
| 8 | There was the thicket where they 'd hunted , and the wood where they 'd killed a fox for eating nomes . |
| 9 | They trailed by three goals to one , they 'd missed a number of chances in the second period , and after Steve Bull had put Wolves three nil up with a hat trick in the opening twenty four minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ People like Stock , Aitken & Waterman thought they 'd discovered a formula for pop music , and there is n't a formula . |
| 11 | Then there was another one , outside the church , they 'd made a hole for a man to sit in there , and he used to sell papers . |
| 12 | I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five . |
| 13 | I knew they 'd made a lot of money . |
| 14 | It was n't until yesterday that Swindon Police announced they 'd arrested a man in connection with Joan 's disappearance . |
| 15 | Partly because they themselves were running running short of money er they they had a er lost a lot of lawsuits and they 'd spent a lot of money rebuilding their abbey church their priory church over at . |
| 16 | Last week they 'd shared a bottle of champagne to celebrate the birth of the seventh grandchild . |
| 17 | They 'd shared a bed in Cumberland and she had comforted Gordon because nothing was quite right . |
| 18 | Five different venues in less than five hours and they 'd drawn a blank at all of them ! |
| 19 | But so far they 'd drawn a blank in that direction . |
| 20 | They 'd enjoyed a game of snap or whist or gin rummy . |
| 21 | They 'd misjudged a fence at the Tythrop Park horse trials at Kingsey in Buckinghamshire . |
| 22 | The heavier atomic bits — the stuff that goes to make up the planets — they had to wait until later until they 'd had a chance to be built up . |
| 23 | Yeah erm wait a minute we got a letter from this morning to say that erm wait a minute , erm they 'd had a communication from Mr |
| 24 | Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ? |
| 25 | They used to do some outrageous things together when they 'd had a couple of beers . |
| 26 | They 'd had a gutful of official lies . |
| 27 | Once they 'd had a conversation on two levels , from street to first-floor window ; it had been in April ; on the second occasion he 'd visited her in the afternoon , for a walk along the canal . |
| 28 | Having located the house , he had roared into Belfast and met Mallachy at the Wellington Park , where they 'd had a pint of Guinness beneath the photos of the famous actors . |
| 29 | And had been salvaged when they 'd had a sort of a a mock assessment . |
| 30 | Mind you , they 'd had a lot of practice . ’ |