Example sentences of "they [vb base] [vb pp] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I know , Sainsburys have n't yet taken that decision they 've they 've hung on the brink for more than six months now . |
| 2 | I mean they 've gone out the window . |
| 3 | And just to actually formalise they 've laid out the plan to say that we are actually doing , we are aware that this does n't combine and we are doing something about it . |
| 4 | as we can cos of the cost side erm I 'm not happy about the way they 've drawn up the writ because it does n't say precisely wh it does n't say what that invoice says it 's only |
| 5 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 6 | But there have been people so sunk in self-blame they 've taken on the guilt of their firm 's collapse — which really does have to be nonsense . |
| 7 | In 1988 , Ruth Barclay teamed up with her niece , Sherrie Bodie , to open Barclay & Bodie which has been so successful they 've taken over the shop next door . |
| 8 | But if , say , they use £ 10-worth of it right away , £10-worth three weeks later , and save the final £10-worth until they 've paid off the check ‘ so that I do n't owe anyone ’ , the true rate of interest works out at about 400 per cent . |
| 9 | Morland bosses say they 've pulled off the escape of the decade |
| 10 | All the hearty citizens of this city who can walk are at the Citadel , because that is where they have locked up the food , and are distributing it . |
| 11 | This means that , for many areas , the full community charge will be in place in all area , except those receiving special Government grant because they have taken over the education service from ILEA . |
| 12 | They have taken over the Christian 's own cliché and complain that many are ‘ too heavenly-minded to be any earthly use ! ’ |
| 13 | They have put back the release date nine months to September next year . |
| 14 | They have let down the public and also let down colleagues who , in the local media and in some national programmes such as ’ Newsnight ’ , have succeeded in giving a more accurate and balanced picture of events . |
| 15 | I think they have brought in the referee just to safeguard the umpires ’ integrity . |
| 16 | My general conclusion is that the pro-classical themes are the more important : they have opened up the opportunity for an extensive development of the unnecessarily narrow focus of Beccaria 's original formulation of classical criminology , and this opportunity will be taken up in Part Two . |
| 17 | Fresh from their success they have thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the Group . |
| 18 | To put nature in its proper place , they have set up the exhibition as a living demonstration of the newest thinking on the interrelationship of the human and natural realms . |
| 19 | Young children may well appreciate this before they have sorted out the relation between connective , mode , and temporal order . |