Example sentences of "'ve [verb] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For starters , they 've witnessed a marked shift in the make-up of their audience : though there 's a sprinkling of residual bagginess in tonight 's crowd , the lion 's share of the faithful fit the dishevelled , T-shirted stereotype of the diehard pop kid . |
| 2 | I 'd say offhand , they 've dropped a monstrous spanner in our works . ’ |
| 3 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 4 | I 've endured a terrible journey in the back of a van for you . ’ |
| 5 | Well , I , I think Mr Chairman , they 've done a fair job in there . |
| 6 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 7 | Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss . |
| 8 | I 'm pleased to say that in the course of the last six months we 've seen a strong recovery in profits . |
| 9 | What we 've done , won one of the points I think that is worth er making perhaps is that on er over the last few years we 've seen a complete change in world export philosophy where not only are the Russians exporting all over the place but clearly er there are a number of western aircraft in different parts of the world and therefore what we have also done is to , in comparing er our aircraft against other western ones , we 've also looked at them as potential threats because it 's possible that er erm western aircraft in certain hands could end up being used against us so we have also compared those . |
| 10 | And even before the pit closure programme started with the increased competition that was taking place inside the mines , the increased productivity erm we 've seen a steady rise in the number of back accidents , erm you know spinal erm related accidents . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've seen a big rise in unfurnished lettings over the past few months , ’ she says . |
| 12 | We 've made a concerted effort in recent years to make the articles in our association magazine , Business Credit , relevant to the day-to-day problems credit and financial managers face , and to present the latest techniques and applications . |
| 13 | Now scientists working at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford believe they 've made a significant discovery in how asthma is passed down the family tree . |
| 14 | Doctors believe they 've made a significant breakthrough in the fight against one of Britain 's fastest growing illnesses . |
| 15 | Although we 've advanced a great deal in the last fifty years , we still have a way to go and our self esteem is lower than men . |
| 16 | At the moment erm Shane I 've got a new enquiry in the system for a whole works , right , |
| 17 | It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years . |
| 18 | As I 've mentioned earlier , we 've we 've got a slight movement in the right direction . |
| 19 | Now , I 've got a retired accountant in Nottingham who spends his days trading gilts , but not what I 'd want to do . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh I 've got a boring job in an office . |
| 21 | It 's no good having them , but I 've got a blue kitchen in my house , I wo I wo n't pay seven hundred quid anyway , that 's not bad for the money even if they were only six seventy quid |
| 22 | We 've got a major problem in the Health Service . |
| 23 | I arrive at the venue to find that it has been changed at a whim to another hotel across the road ( ’ It 's much cooler and we 've got a cosy corner in the lounge , ’ the PR man assures me ) . |
| 24 | Now suppose you 've got a dyslexic child in your class , or one that you think may be — I can suggest various don'ts . |
| 25 | I also think we 've got a certain accessibility in our performance that people have n't really seen for a while : we 're willing to perform . ’ |
| 26 | They 've got a padded stocking in here for comfort . |
| 27 | Tell you what if they 've got a hydraulic jack in there , several people have to buy it off him , the boys will buy it off |
| 28 | We 've got a bloody German in our air space and ferried meant to welcome him . |
| 29 | They 've got a spare room in my mum 's flat so I just took it over and put a weights bench in and , what else , a rowing machine and I started to do some weights |
| 30 | Your comment about the headship rates raise an interesting issue , in fact goes back to the comment Mr made , about the West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire who 've got a consistent approach in projecting . |