Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have got [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Uproar then , and shouts of : ‘ The nigger 's got th'measure , short-arse … fist like a cannon ball … who 'll have twopence on him to win … ’ as the crowd heaved Garty to his feet , helped him round and sent him flying back towards Midnight . |
2 | So I reckon ( hope ! ) the Guardian has got hold of this off some Derby source who is talking out the back of their heads . |
3 | His retreat was , however , purely tactical , for the hunter had got wind of his quarry and from early 1869 he began to lay his traps , with the certain knowledge that he was on the right track . |
4 | You know , particularly , you know the female may have only a state pension you know the part state pension nothing else coming in , and a lot of these accounts are still net , not gross , so the revenue have got money to give away , and they 're quite happy to do that providi providing that people tap them on the shoulder . |
5 | The football 's got ball bearings in it . |
6 | Or : ‘ The cat 's got fleas . ’ |
7 | It 's either a six-foot high with sharp edges f fridge freezer or a cooker which all the back 's got grease on and is sliding out of our hands as we carry it . |
8 | I thought we were getting her the one , but the only thing is the other has got drawers both sides has n't it ? if I remember rightly . |
9 | I ca n't see what Andy 's doing because the man 's body is in the way , but then Andy hits into him , bowling him backwards and he shouts and I wriggle away from them ; I scramble off through the ferns on all fours and then stop and look back and the man 's got Andy , he 's struggling with him , leaning over him , folding him , pressing him down , and Andy 's breathing hard , grunting , trying to break free . |
10 | The project 's got alpha ratings , but the council saw the industrial involvement and said ‘ Go to industry — we 're short of money ’ . |
11 | The most beautiful girl in the world has got spots on her ass . |
12 | Because e if you all look at your fingerprints now , you 're looking at , no one else in the world has got fingerprints like you 've got . |
13 | No one in the world has got fingerprints like you 've got because we are all different . |
14 | And the change now means that if a married woman , it does n't , as I say , it does n't affect single women , if a married woman now has n't earned income using all her allowances , so she does n't work has n't worked , never qualified for a pension , or does work but does n't earn more than that , and the couple have got investment income then it 's sensible to switch that into the wife 's name to give her income to use up her allowances . |
15 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
16 | It was a bit late for that , since the press had got hold of the story anyway . |
17 | The sheriff demanded to know how the solicitor had got hold of a confidential social inquiry report . |