Example sentences of "they 've [verb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 've invested a lot of money in your conversion . |
| 3 | They 're keeping quiet at the moment saying simply that they 've invested a lot in new technology and models , and their cars are doing well against others in the country . |
| 4 | I know they 've invited a lot of guests , who 'll be staying in the house . |
| 5 | Now they 've arranged a meeting with Thamesdown Borough Council to demand action . |
| 6 | They 've made a contribution towards |
| 7 | Doctors believe they 've made a breakthough in the treatment of breast cancer using drugs instead of surgery . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | Jack said : ‘ They 've made an offer of 200,000 but it 's not enough . |
| 11 | Maybe or putting in erm that cable cos they 've dug a trench around it . |
| 12 | No and right and their people they 've uncovered a path to the bigger . |
| 13 | So they 've heard a lot about what happens here and they 've had the opportunity to look around . |
| 14 | ‘ They want to meet you , they 've heard a lot about you . ’ |
| 15 | 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a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps they 've given an overdose of pain killers , or sleeping tablets to an ailing elderly relative . |
| 18 | Things are definitely happening over in Jersey : they 've converted a fort in St. Helier into a leisure centre , with squash courts etc . |
| 19 | The Polytechnic usually receives hundreds of phone calls from students trying to find out if they 've secured a place at college . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We are not allowed to know just yet , for the London Underground rule book tells drivers to wait for 30 minutes before making an announcement , unless they 've received a message to the contrary from their controllers or there is some ‘ immediate threat to safety . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Tell you what I did watch one night in the week on Sky was erm they 've er they 've done a feature on erm all these karate actors , you know , the best ones |
| 25 | Gary Wills says they 've done a lot of work on the swing and all he does now is aim the golf club him . |
| 26 | They 've developed a reputation as one of the world 's leading ship builders . |
| 27 | They 've developed a camera for your line for th for the mackerel , for the ma marlin and the shark fishing erm and basically you can actually watch you can , you can ac you 've got a your T V screen so it , it 's er , it 's like a spectator sport as well cos you can actually watch the , the , the fish coming to take your bait . |
| 28 | I think they look after them when they 've lost a lot of weight , you know . |
| 29 | er They 've lost most of their goods , er they 've had to leave enormous amounts of , of , of their personal belongings in , in Kuwait , they 're , they 're not physically in bad shape , but mentally they 're , they 're very anxious and , and they know they 've lost a lot of belongings . |
| 30 | They 've built a model of the Venetian coast to help them find a way of saving the historic Italian city from potential disaster . |