Example sentences of "they have [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything .
2 The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think .
3 Or they thought they were and the only people they 're going to get any more from is the parents , nowhere else , nobody else is going to give them anything I 've got no illusions about it , I do n't expect you to get anything from anywhere else , and I know that you , you would n't get anything from anywhere else because they , they 've cut it , they 've cut it to the bone and the only people that can afford to go now and to live in anything like
4 The bothy was in Pat 's family , and they 've made it into a lovely home .
5 But they do n't actually scoop it out off from the blast furnace , they drill a hole in the side where they 've plugged it with a lump of clay .
6 I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people .
7 I 'm sure Linfield would rather have got to the first round proper by playing football but at least they 've played it by the rules and good luck to them against Copenhagen .
8 They 've done it by an alteration in the way local government finance works , so that the cost of providing new council housing and the cost of maintaining existing council housing has to be met entirely from the rent paid by existing council tenants , and erm a certain amount of Government subsidy .
9 They 've done it in the Vale .
10 And they 've clouted it from the outside going in .
11 They 've tested it at a hundred and thirty five miles done , eh ?
12 ‘ It 's gone now , they 've turned it into a boutique .
13 Yes , it 's not , they 've turned it into a total university trained job erm , people have n't given award .
14 They 've turned it from a Council that was determined to tackle the social deprivation in this city , was determined to tackle the disadvantaged , such as racial disadvantaged , by supporting the C T C , which gives a unique opportunity to Asian children in this city for education .
15 ‘ Cypress Hill are smoking funk , and they 've rolled it into a fat album featuring ‘ How I Could Just Kill A Man ’ and ‘ Hand On The Pump ’ .
16 They 've put it in the sun whatever it is .
17 And I said is my caravan being cleaned weekly as people go out if they 've got it for a fortnight fortnightly .
18 They 've got it at the Law College and I 've I 've spent some lunchtimes fiddling with it and thinking I want !
19 They 've got it up the stairs and through the front door , ’ he told them , the practical words giving nothing away about his mood .
20 And they took a whole level off , they 've dropped it by a storey .
21 King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin .
22 And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one .
23 He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around .
24 By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour .
25 They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor .
26 Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew .
27 A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed .
28 They had discovered it in the bed last night when one of them had found themselves lying on it , and it had been pitched out into the darkness .
29 When someone discovered something , they had to explain it to the others , and this reinforced their own understanding .
30 In 1899 , when the New York , New Haven , and Hartford Company had built their magnificent new station at Providence , Rhode Island , they had planned it without a train-shed .
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