Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 2 | The bit where he like jumping on the lake they 've cut away a bit of the platform so the only way you can do it is jump onto this bit of wood then fly , and literally he was like that , just going in mid air and landed right in the water ! |
| 3 | As we feel that they missed a fair bit out what they 've written is very good but erm they 've missed quite a bit out |
| 4 | Yes , it 'll be worth following that up , cos that 's , that 's one of the erm , they , they 've done quite a lot of work of Amnesty and general studies in the past , there was a sheet of sort of quotes of , how good the Amnesty was , and there was one from the teacher at Birchwood or what , what 's Margaret Dane School , so erm , yes , if , if you could definitely follow that up erm John |
| 5 | So they went up there and did that , and then , I ca they 've done quite a lot and then they 're going up London tomorrow , I think . |
| 6 | They 've put together a side of young lads and journeyman pros , and that is meant as a compliment . |
| 7 | They 've got quite a lot of Christabel 's unpublished papers there . |
| 8 | Well they 're , they are still waiting for , for confirmation on money , but they 've got quite a lot in the kitty already |
| 9 | and they 've got now a deficit of , life cover there and extra , again you take out one of these for it . |
| 10 | They 've chosen quite a diversity of places , from wild and lonely Wester Ross to the spectacular north Cornish coast . |
| 11 | Many parts of the continent have also got a drought ; in France , in southern Italy and Greece in particular but Spain , they 're not too bad actually they 've had quite a lot of thundery showers this summer . |
| 12 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 13 | They had played quite a bit at Hurlingham when they had first been married . |
| 14 | My parents were not very well off when they bought it , and they had to have quite a lot of work done on it before we could move in . |
| 15 | Yesterday the administrators of Maxwell 's private estate , estimated to be worth £8 million , revealed they had recovered only a quarter of that amount . |
| 16 | I also sent a 6-page questionnaire to people who attended Unification ‘ workshops ’ — the majority of whom did not join the movement , although they had learned quite a lot about it . |
| 17 | showed no stuttering , and the usual blood flow asymmetry favouring the left side , when they had to read aloud a passage of prose . |
| 18 | Actually in honesty they have taken quite a bit out of there , cos there was an awful lot of stuff in there , you could hardly get in at one stage now what are you gon na do with these bike things , are you gon na chuck them ? |
| 19 | How dare the hon. Gentleman and the Labour party claim to be concerned about jobs when they have put forward a package of proposals that would decimate employment in this country and confine millions of people to the dole queues . |
| 20 | Rather , they have put forward a number of proposals which are plainly unsuited to an eastern culture and structure . |
| 21 | Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble . |
| 22 | The Soviets are largely unknown in the British Isles , but elsewhere they have established quite a reputation as fearsome yet fair opponents . |