Example sentences of "[noun sg] they have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down the Boarman they 've had a three , three offers of Hamper Agency for next year . |
| 2 | It was a tough job for the judges , but after tasting thousands of cups of tea they 've announced a winner . |
| 3 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 4 | They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 5 | By the time England won another Test they had played a further thirty , plus two that were rain-restricted and one washed out altogether . |
| 6 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 7 | Under the 1944 Education Act they have had a duty to provide this for numerous categories of children : the blind , partially sighted , deaf , partially hearing , physically handicapped , delicate , maladjusted , epileptic , educationally subnormal , children with speech defects , and the autistic . |
| 8 | Yes , yes , now that group have come into me and two weeks after they 've worn the hairpiece they 've got a job after two and half years of not finding work , so what do you say to that ? |
| 9 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 10 | At this present moment they 've got a blackout in Berlin and I bet it 's snowing . |
| 11 | They 'll continue their campaign to win back the security they 'd worked a whole lifetime for . |
| 12 | Mm I mean er why do n't they do it on like the square , how big your house is because that way you could I know it 's not far when people who live in a great big old house do n't have to pay as much cos if this I mean Uncle Trevor and Aunty they 've got a massive great house have n't they ? |
| 13 | During the post-war period they have shown a quite stable distribution although in the 1970s the process of growing concentration in selected retirement areas , noticed in the 1960s , appeared to end . |
| 14 | The trust is based at the restored railway station at Coalbrookdale , and on the site they have constructed a traditional cruck-framed barn , in which they hold a series of leisure courses on traditional crafts . |
| 15 | In the process they 've lost a certain edge , for at the end The Cateran had the rage and the fury of a band at its peak falling apart . |
| 16 | In the process they 've lost a certain edge , for at the end The Cateran had the rage and the fury of a band at its peak falling apart . |
| 17 | Judges feel that in this process they have lost a privileged position which also helped to preserve their independence . |
| 18 | Brown had fallen miserably in love ( so he said ) with a girl named Betty Fowler , whom he 'd met one Friday evening at a hop held in the Oxford Town Hall , and already on their second meeting they had vowed a mutual , eternal love . |
| 19 | It looks as if over there stuck on the wall they 've got a rechargeable for hoover for taking crumbs off the tables . |
| 20 | he had er new place there er er what 's his name they 've got a , they opened a new nursing home did n't they ? |
| 21 | In the video they 've used a combination of modern animation techniques and her classic drawings . |
| 22 | Oh god they 've got a great big problem with Helena then |
| 23 | Masters of their art , Stock , Aitken and Waterman realised that day they had unearthed a talent that could outshine anything , even in their empire . |
| 24 | We 've got a got a minute or two some some friends of ours were saying the other day they 've booked a holiday at er very near the Por Portagil Portuguese Spanish border on the South Do you know it ? |
| 25 | He says ; Every child has had some training and they show me that they know what it is all about and at the end of the day they have saved a life . |
| 26 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 27 | In another inspired move this season they have added a new coach in Glen Ross , from New Zealand . |
| 28 | Last week they 'd shared a bottle of champagne to celebrate the birth of the seventh grandchild . |
| 29 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 30 | Consistent with that policy they have adopted a supervisory structure that is common in professional counselling training . |