Example sentences of "they have [verb] a [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Ten City have had three massive club hits without selling any records , and now they 've got a chart hit . |
2 | ‘ They 've specified a document written in Catalan by a friend of Tristram Abberley . |
3 | As soon as it 's over the phone rings ( they 've had a phone put in so that they can get bread and groceries delivered , and feel less cut off from doctors and fire services ) . |
4 | They had read a book called Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach , and we were supposed to talk about what we had eaten and what we thought this meant emotionally . |
5 | Because Jo 's father was English and Lorna Lewis gave many interviews explaining that the secret of keeping a marriage together in Hollywood was to make sure your husband was the king of his own home , they had chosen a house built in English baronial style , with walls mantled with ivy , black exposed timbers , fireplaces big enough to hold a conference in and small diamond-paned windows through which the sun streamed defiantly in brilliant narrow shafts . |
6 | They mistakenly believe they have got a God given right to survive and prosper , regardless of the state of the nation , the latest jobs crisis or more mundane matters like League standing . |
7 | but she had , they have to have a fence built from the back garden , because there 's , there 's an opening from the back garden and it 's onto the drive and then it 's onto the road , even though it is a quiet road |