Example sentences of "'ve [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years they 've all got the real ale kick and always have too many pumps , which means that the throughput is slow and four out of five beers go off before they 're half sold . |
| 2 | I 've only done the patterned bit . ’ |
| 3 | You 've only to read the new Parents Charter , which John Major is introducing , to realise this . |
| 4 | Mike continued : " I 've only got the one sister . |
| 5 | Memet says when you 're travelling all you need to take these days is precautions , so I 've only got the one bag . |
| 6 | You 've only got the one cell left available . |
| 7 | Course I 've only got the one catalogue . |
| 8 | I 've only got the one book on jukeboxes and I 've used up all the good ones . |
| 9 | It 's on marriage now , but I 've only got the one application form . |
| 10 | Mrs has already asked for her class to be after one and we 've only got the two classes to do . |
| 11 | They 've only got the little lights in that shop . |
| 12 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 13 | As we 've seen , it 's usually fairly easy to correct if you do find you 've inadvertently moved the incorrect point cam . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just missed the last bus . |
| 15 | Afterwards as the plaudits for the winner died down , Homer confided in me : ‘ You 've just seen the best jockey since Jonjo O'Neill , ’ and who would argue with that assertion nowadays ? |
| 16 | In jumblespeech Meh'Lindi had reported , ‘ I 've just seen the Harlequin man . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've just seen the local paper , ’ Bridget said when she answered . |
| 18 | They 've just reached the half way stage of the project but it 's taken them five years to get this far . |
| 19 | Erm , there 's many suggestions I 've got here , where I 've just taken the necessary action in view of the procedures and I do n't feel that it 's necessary for us to discuss it , if you 're happy with that . |
| 20 | I 've just tried the local newspaper but Frank 's pal has gone out and they wo n't give me a contact number . |
| 21 | ‘ Because , ’ Polly said crisply , ‘ you 've just spent the entire day yelling at me , and telling me how slow , clumsy , and generally useless I am . ’ |
| 22 | But , from Durham , Dick Wilkinson writes : ‘ I 've just spent the last half-hour with my arm down the toilet trying to unblock it . |
| 23 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 24 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 25 | Chuckball is a mixture of basketball and handball … invented in Switzerland its now taking a hold in this country … its a non contact sport but is played at a hundred miles an hour … and top dogs are Cheltenham 's Junior Team … they 've just won the European Championship … a big deal … |
| 26 | They 've just won the Southern Women 's Championships for the second time . |
| 27 | they 've just rehashed the old plan , and just drawn a red line round the bit they want us to look at , erm , this bit know it 's a computer . |
| 28 | I think we 've just found the soft underbelly of the Spinward Corporation . ’ |
| 29 | pick the sod up , look I 've just picked the bloody hand up there , you poxy thing |
| 30 | Always draw that line in for North , I 've just used the red line there . |