Example sentences of "they 've [verb] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 2 | No , looks as though they 've done you some sort of . |
| 3 | They 've formed their own band , and have just released their first single . |
| 4 | Since then they 've built their own homes out of the earth … and Oxfam has put in a desperately needed water supply . |
| 5 | she was taken out of work one morning and now they 've bought her another car and I do n't where it 's happened but somebody 's gone into the back of her |
| 6 | And they 've started their own helpline for solvent abusers called Stepping Stones . |
| 7 | I think the time has probably passed now , all the schools have got their own budgets , they 've got their own builders who are giving them a good service , and I doubt whether this is the time to resurrect that , especially with local government review not far off , and the future of a county-wide D S O in some doubt , when it comes to local government review . |
| 8 | No well I 'm if people pull out they 've got their own reasons . |
| 9 | but they 've got their own problems . |
| 10 | They 've got their own lives to lead . |
| 11 | because I , the doctors I work for they have opted out , they are what they call it fund holding , they 've got their own budget , they 've got a , they 've got a practice manager and its run as a business and they look at every thing and any profits that they get are ploughed back into the G P's surgery and er , and they improve the surgery facilities for the patience , and it will be a better service , but I mean how can Labour come in and then say right you 're not doing that , how can they undo it |
| 12 | If they 've got their own computer which is I B M compatible we just give them the disk because it 's programmed that the despatcher not the hardware . |
| 13 | Erm and it 's a bit like timekeeping I mean they they 've got their own system now for evaluating how good they are at time keeping and I think the erm the figure they try and hit is about ninety five percent is n't it of trains arriving on time . |
| 14 | They 've got their own country , have n't they ? |
| 15 | But they 've got their own culture . |
| 16 | Yeah they they do n't seem to like I I know that in Wick a lot of the folk in Wick have have two se they 've got their own dialect and they 've got English . |
| 17 | ‘ They 've got their own money , ’ the senator answered , ‘ left to them by their grandmother . |
| 18 | They 're both crazy about animals and they 've got their own dogs . |
| 19 | point , they 've got their own delivery service . |
| 20 | They 've got their own car . |
| 21 | they 've learnt something this morning |
| 22 | And each time they 've brought their own brand of hospitality . |
| 23 | Together , developing carefully but quickly , they 've established their own language , their own ways of structuring and responding . |
| 24 | how , how well they 've enjoyed it this morning I thought well I wished I 'd made the effort |