Example sentences of "[vb past] they have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Users also reported they had increased confidence , were more in control of their lives and the programme helped take their mind off their problems . |
| 2 | The French police ran a check on fingerprints , and found they 'd got Puddephat . |
| 3 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 4 | She also found they had changed position during sleep and were now lying spoon-fashion , his arm draped over her , her back resting on his chest , her knees bent , her buttocks tucked snugly against him . |
| 5 | Hours were spent paddling around in the dark on the Suez Canal until they believed they had mastered handling of the inflatables . |
| 6 | We assumed they had taken care of the details and Ayling and Pascoe believed everything was all right . ’ |
| 7 | An amazing 98 of them stated they had lost inches from areas they had considered difficult to slim or had found impossible to reduce previously . |
| 8 | He confirmed they 've got Timmy . |
| 9 | Loretta guessed they had sought refuge in the buffet car . |
| 10 | Even before it opened they had become emanations of the State , a branch of the machinery of government . |
| 11 | And the ferry bosses admitted they had received complaints ‘ from time to time ’ — in writing and verbally . |
| 12 | Except that the first time round the Indians saw that Firmin survived and they ran away because they were afraid , and the second time round they saw they 'd killed Antonio , which was quite the wrong result for them so they ran away because it had all gone wrong . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought they 'd patched things up ? ’ |
| 14 | After their reconstruction , 35 witnesses called the police saying they thought they 'd seen Eila . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I thought they 'd taken care of them , ’ said Jenny . |
| 16 | Let me tell you … let me tell you … ’ she racked her brains ‘ … about the time the twins thought they 'd found gold in the creek on our farm . |
| 17 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |
| 18 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 19 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 20 | They said they 'd lost touch . |
| 21 | You know , they said they 'd got drawings and then , well , where are they ? |
| 22 | Is this when they rang up and said they 'd got cakes left ? |
| 23 | ‘ But you said they 'd identified Lawton , Bryce and Magee . |
| 24 | Their lawyer said they 'd brought shame on the whole hunting world . |
| 25 | She said they 've got computers to do that . |
| 26 | You might see a pair of long johns , then long johns , and a pair of socks , but Paul said they 've opened windows and Trevor said it 's nearly knocked him off the ladder . |
| 27 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 28 | East Germans in Prague said they had seen building work begin at the weekend to make it more effective . |
| 29 | Only a third of 13 and 14-year-olds said they had received facts on contraception . |
| 30 | Yesterday The Independent spoke to three Kurdish men picketing the Home Office who all said they had suffered torture and imprisonment in Turkey and were frightened to return . |