Example sentences of "they have [verb] a very [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship .
2 And they 've made a very nice restaurant on the top floor .
3 Having read through the er N Y N Y six and N Y seven , I 've got to acknowledge that it 's er far from easy to draw up a unified strategy for employment land in North Yorkshire and I can sympathize with the County Council er in their difficulties with the methodology and I think that they 've adopted a very fair minded approach to this , they 've er highlighted weaknesses wherever they occur , erm and I think that will be very obvious .
4 So they 've kept a very long time .
5 cropping up was erm that they 've got a very definite code of what is internal to them and what is external to them , it starts off what belongs in the camp and what belongs out of the camp
6 But it is t it is erm very good they 've got a very long waiting list I was helping
7 Five of them I used to play with at the Trafford Metros in Manchester , so they 've got a very experienced team .
8 Er we also had one very large , cumbersome machine which carried things like lighting and breathing apparatus , and heavy lifting gear and all the other bits and pieces of rescue equipment , which came along in slow time , now that has been improved upon no end , and they 've got a very modern equipment now for that , erm er modern in the sense that new , new pieces have come on , cutting equipment with hydraulic jaws which er just slice through the top of a car roof , whereas we had to cut it with a hacksaw perhaps , or , or another metal saw , we , these can be done with just like cutting through cheese .
9 They 've got a very good welfare committee er employees ' committee you know .
10 because of that , they 've got a very big bathroom and a very big bedroom ,
11 Now I 've used it elsewhere in the garden and I 've never really had any problem with it except it is inclined to make the water very alkaline because the chippings that are quite often used on a flat roof and they 've got a very high P H and therefore you 've got to be aware that the water that comes off is not likely to be soft it 's more likely to be fair fairly hard but for reasonably tough plants I do n't think I would waste it , especially in times of water shortage .
12 erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before .
13 Notts in this first half are going to be as they like to be , attacking the Kop end , a Kop end which is utterly deserted because Pisa have n't brought any fans with them but they 've brought a very large following of journalists , and as I said in the initial two-way with Martin , there has been a language barrier between them and me , but when they pointed to the weather and all shivered together , I knew precisely what they meant .
14 Attractions they 've produced a very commendable rise in revenue and profits er , from the Tussaud group , although as you will recall most of the profits in the group come in July and August .
15 They 've had a very busy summer in the Admissions Office , but now the new academic year is underway , I 've invited them into the studio to ask them about this year 's admissions .
16 They had gone a very long way into the tunnel .
17 The Pretender nearly gave the game away by holding his skirts too high crossing a stream : ‘ some women whom they met reported that they had seen a very big woman , who looked like a man in woman 's clothes . ’
18 But they did not know how happy until their life in London was over , and they had to live a very different life indeed .
19 In 11 patients it was difficult to justify repeat biopsy especially when they had shown a very good clinical response to gluten withdrawal .
20 In 1652 they had established a very well-placed port at the Cape of Good Hope as a supply depot , but the Dutch East India Company was always a little worried when settlers at the base interpreted their responsibility to provide food for passing ships as a reason for pushing on into the hinterland .
21 Now some of these Asian ladies , I feel sorry for them , they are strangers , they do n't know much about industrial life , they have led a very sheltered life , you know , and when they go to the toilet they go together .
22 I do n't think anyone will make a fortune by patenting them as a method of space travel , but they have become a very exciting area of research .
23 Now they have taken a very professional attitude to the game .
24 In fact I think oddly enough I think the way that the Daily Mirror Trustees are now organised with postal balance and representatives classes , I think you know is almost a model now of how a set of trustees should run , you know , they but they have got a very good scheme of how they do actually elect their trustees from various groups of of members .
25 Means they have to have a very strong signal . ’
26 Police need little reminding that they have to find a very brutal and sick man fast .
27 ‘ I 've become very involved there , and they have produced a very good equine studies course , ’ Mr Barr approved .
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