Example sentences of "they have [verb] [pron] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 2 | Have they had to give you an enema ? |
| 3 | And he said yes but it 's , it 's the accommodation we 've got , maybe it 's a Company move and they 've given them an apartment or something , seven months old , you know , that big , so by the time |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations . |
| 7 | Now she came away thinking I 've got this secondhand car and they 've given me a warranty . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've given me a roomette or some such , but I take this thing seriously . |
| 9 | They 've given me an elbow crutch , and I can make the journey perfectly well now , if I thought the blasted train would stay on the lines , but there 's not much I could do once I got to Moila , is there , if I ca n't walk ? |
| 10 | They 've given him a price just for painting the walls . |
| 11 | Yeah they 've charged me a fiver 's fucking commission on that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well they 've sent you a letter from hospital . |
| 14 | They 've picked themselves a chairman in David Harris of Adobe and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of DEC and Michael Harrigan of NCD and Anil Malhotra of IXI . |
| 15 | They 've brought you a farewell present but they think it 's just too big . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They 've sponsored us a consultancy , |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They 've had it a bit too easy I think . |
| 20 | They had to give me a brandy , I were in a right state me ! |
| 21 | They had to give it a quarter turn you see with a spanner . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Before either of them could say a word , he turned and began to speak as though they had asked him a question . |
| 24 | They had given her a list . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But his persecutors were frustrated when they had to release him a week later , partly due to a technical fault in the warrant for his arrest and partly due to the influence of his friend , Sir Matthew Hale . |
| 27 | They had sent him a WPC who looked like a schoolgirl dressed in police uniform for a school play . |
| 28 | I got my membership booklet today ( at first I though they had sent me a season ticket by mistake ) . |
| 29 | ‘ They had sent me a tape of four songs ; one was called Down And Out and Squonk was another . |
| 30 | They had set themselves a pace that could not survive 90 minutes and , sure enough , began to sag . |