Example sentences of "they have [verb] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 2 | They trailed by three goals to one , they 'd missed a number of chances in the second period , and after Steve Bull had put Wolves three nil up with a hat trick in the opening twenty four minutes . |
| 3 | I knew they 'd made a lot of money . |
| 4 | Partly because they themselves were running running short of money er they they had a er lost a lot of lawsuits and they 'd spent a lot of money rebuilding their abbey church their priory church over at . |
| 5 | Last week they 'd shared a bottle of champagne to celebrate the birth of the seventh grandchild . |
| 6 | They 'd enjoyed a game of snap or whist or gin rummy . |
| 7 | Oh rather yes , out-work , people used during the First World War there were no end of people were sort of er especially if they 'd had a bit of experience in the leather industry like harness and saddlery and that sort of thing , especially the harness and er other work attached to leather cavalry and er revolver holsters and that sort of thing , they 'd do them at home you know oh yes there was er now Walsall 's divided is n't it ? |
| 8 | They used to do some outrageous things together when they 'd had a couple of beers . |
| 9 | They 'd had a gutful of official lies . |
| 10 | Having located the house , he had roared into Belfast and met Mallachy at the Wellington Park , where they 'd had a pint of Guinness beneath the photos of the famous actors . |
| 11 | And had been salvaged when they 'd had a sort of a a mock assessment . |
| 12 | Mind you , they 'd had a lot of practice . ’ |
| 13 | erm people were starting to move out , and I think that , I think quite a lot of people , well although they 'd had a lot of information from the Local Authority , were still very unsure about how that would affect other benefits , in particular supplementary benefits , and single payments , and that , that , grants for , for the furniture , that kind of thing . |
| 14 | Their stories were n't ones of passive pain , but tales of active resistance — having somewhere to run to , they 'd got a grip of their own lives . |
| 15 | You told me they 'd got a set of keys . |
| 16 | Next door , they 'd got a lot of kids and they used to play marbles , and they used to bounce on these concrete floors . |
| 17 | Even worse , if they 'd fancied a bottle of Bell 's whisky to toast in the New Year , it would have cost them £23.04 , almost twice the UK price . |
| 18 | As soon as they 'd assembled a set of songs , they reverted back to 1964 by securing themselves weekly club residencies in Liverpool and Manchester . |
| 19 | They 've enlisted a number of world ranked players to their mens and ladies squads and are looking like favourites to win the premier league title . |
| 20 | They 've invested a lot of money in your conversion . |
| 21 | I know they 've invited a lot of guests , who 'll be staying in the house . |
| 22 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |
| 23 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |
| 24 | Or is it , is it that they 've become a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 25 | That 's why a blood donor if they 've given a pint of blood they 're told not to smoke afterwards if they 're a smoker . |
| 26 | Now having said that I mean the late long established er unit trust group , I mean as a , as a company we 've got to be very careful who we use , we 've got an approved list erm in London and in Bournemouth we have erm a , a department which analyzes products , and those products come onto our approved list when they 've , when they 've fulfilled a number of criteria . |
| 27 | They 've gone a lot of funny ways , the Cauldhames and their associates by marriage , but to the best of my knowledge a gun has never crossed one off . |
| 28 | They 've received a lot of publicity erm and a lot of angst erm and they 're quite complicated , so I 'll go through them carefully . |
| 29 | Gary Wills says they 've done a lot of work on the swing and all he does now is aim the golf club him . |
| 30 | I think they look after them when they 've lost a lot of weight , you know . |