Example sentences of "they have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon Town say they 're disappointed after a Football League Tribunal valued their former player manager Glen Hoddle at only seventy five thousand pounds , when they 'd hoped for a million . |
| 2 | They 'd staggered past a dozen rabbit-holes , calling down into the gloom , before they 'd heard Nooty 's voice answering them . |
| 3 | Within seconds they 'd piled into a battered Mercedes and were fighting their way out on to the airport road . |
| 4 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 5 | They 've they 've asked for a few changes to their older system , and this new one will give them all that they want , plus a load that they do n't want . |
| 6 | They 've asked for a third . |
| 7 | They 've asked for a third of what |
| 8 | It was the , the British Corpus asked us if we would be willing to record the last council meeting , because they wanted to , erm , get dialects and accents and use of words from different parts of the country , and they were so enthralled by our display , they 've asked for a further two meetings . |
| 9 | And how are we to make alliances with those women or are we to say that we do not wish to do so until they 've gone through a greater degree of learning process . |
| 10 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |
| 11 | If you look around the towns and cities of Britain , you will find the same story , be it steel plants , those vast chemical plants , the big engineering works , they scarcely exist any more and if they still are there , they 've shrunk to a tiny part of their earlier size . |
| 12 | The villagers occasionally dress up in their lederhosen , and give it all they 've got with a few thigh slapping , foot stamping numbers . |
| 13 | They often agree to intercourse because they feel they must or they think they 've got to a certain age where they have to do it . |
| 14 | Erm Customs and Excise and Charity Commission , they 're not just users , again they 've chosen as a strategic partner for database development . |
| 15 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 16 | The point was to fire fast to persuade the French that they had run into a strong picquet line . |
| 17 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 18 | They had run into a few mobs of scuffling Haitians , but fortunately , they were mostly without firearms and so the Doctor and Howard had been able to drive through them , sending the mobs scurrying out of their way . |
| 19 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 20 | She was brutally assaulted by her brother 's friends , as they had turned into a frenzied mob . |
| 21 | The van jerked forward but he managed to keep the engine from stalling and within seconds they had turned into a sharp bend and the grotesque crater was no longer visible in the rear view mirror . |
| 22 | Instead , they had stumbled into a veritable snake pit . ) |
| 23 | Wigan began so explosively that they had raced into a 34–0 lead within a mere 20 minutes as they ran in six memorable tries . |
| 24 | Her brother Mr Bhatti , of Lawrence Street , Dundee , told Lord Osborne that under their faith a couple were not considered to be married until they had gone through a religious ceremony before a Mullah . |
| 25 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 26 | They had not gone far , when they had stepped into a small clearing . |
| 27 | They had accepted their invitations only in order to disrupt the proceedings , as they had done on a previous occasion in 1953 . |
| 28 | Railways , Spearman went on , had the power to break local strikes , as they had done in a recent coal strike in the United States , and the operating officers and freight-yard superintendents took on a military-style power . |
| 29 | However , by 1884 even his timid wife believed in his affluence as they had moved into a pleasant merchant 's house in Didsbury where their youngest children , Walter and Jessie , were born . |
| 30 | The patients were asked to keep a record of all foods they had eaten during a typical midweek day and during a typical weekend day , once every three month period . |