Example sentences of "they have [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear they 've poured oil on the sea and set it alight ’ said a shore boy . |
| 2 | There had been a moon when they 'd first arrived , but the clouds had come while they were chopping wood , and the rain while they 'd cooked dinner on the two little primus stoves . |
| 3 | But surely not as furious as he would have been afterwards , if they 'd given way to the temptations of their flesh ? |
| 4 | She was worrying that they 'd made love at the wrong time of the month . |
| 5 | Their lawyer said they 'd brought shame on the whole hunting world . |
| 6 | They 'd spent part of the morning carrying boxes of some sort from one hut to another , apparently fairly heavy boxes , because it took both men to carry them . |
| 7 | Many of the players in the Olympic cricket match were n't even aware that they 'd taken part in the Olympic Games at all . |
| 8 | they 'd taken control from the parent , and the parents quite readily gave that control to the state , they no longer had parental control |
| 9 | Let me tell you … let me tell you … ’ she racked her brains ‘ … about the time the twins thought they 'd found gold in the creek on our farm . |
| 10 | And this is what the other blacksmiths had done : they 'd got hold of the horse 's hair and the horse could n't bear it to be touched . |
| 11 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 12 | ‘ They 've seen Doctor In The House images — all work , and medical textbooks being pored over . |
| 13 | Lots , lots of people claim , in fact ever such a lot of people claim that they 've got communication with the dead , for instance that , as you know I 've got a caravan ai n't I at Rudyard Lake ? |
| 14 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 15 | I mean , they 've got collateral in the bricks and mortar , have n't they ? |
| 16 | Bon Jovi never did dirty their songs with real spunk , anger or despair , on in fact any emotion that was n't packaged up in stadium size , third-hand slogans with melodies so open and bare they sound as if they 've caught sunstroke in the New Jersey heat , and nothing 's changed . |
| 17 | They 've ordered food from the Strathspeld Arms ; the same food the funeral guests would have eaten . |
| 18 | They 've taken revenge on the weavers |
| 19 | Had a er not the best of starts but they 've taken control of the game for my money o over the last period . |
| 20 | Th th they 've come through and they 've taken control of the area . |
| 21 | They 've earned success on the back of prudent and adequate investment in a high skill level — the factor which decides above all else where you come to rest on the continuum from the under-developed third world economies , to the high performing advanced nations . |
| 22 | They 've shown opposition to the introduction of L M S right from the start and put every obstacle possible in the way of its success , and its implementation , and yet there they were congratulating themselves on how well it was working . |
| 23 | ‘ If he did he 'd have had to park at the back of St Manicus house since they 've banned parking in the precinct now . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the pair say that they 've had trouble in the past with vandalism and youths prowling around the back of the council owned flats . |
| 25 | Different groups had to lift the positive flap just a little ( half an inch ) or rather more ( up to seven inches ) ; thus the groups differed not in whether they had received pre-training with the cues but in the magnitude of the response acquired . |
| 26 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 27 | Only when they had gained experience of the re-heat sets at Dunston ( in 1952 ) did they concede its flexibility , and re-heat became standard in their new stations from then onwards . |
| 28 | They had escaped detection from the air , in spite of the large number of vehicles involved , but had had to abandon the tanks which had become hopelessly bogged down in the sand . |
| 29 | Surely the reason for the rebuke , why he said that they were timid and they 'd no faith was because they had lost sight of the fact , or the , the importance of the fact that he was there with them . |
| 30 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |