Example sentences of "they [vb base] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We picked these up on a visit we made to the island of Haiti a few years ago , and they 've become part of our Christmas celebrations ever since . ’ |
| 2 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 3 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've seen Doctor In The House images — all work , and medical textbooks being pored over . |
| 5 | I do n't know cos I 've never actually erm been in a place where they 've done sort of thing really . |
| 6 | They 've grown fat on gold , not the Garrimperos They 're a strong political lobby and would never allow business to close down over the little matter of mercury . |
| 7 | Neil adds that they 've collected money for charity up and down the mountains and its restored his faith in human nature |
| 8 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 9 | They 've lost sight of there — oh , I 've got to get going , what 's your schedule . |
| 10 | Well they 've lost their company they 've lost control of their company . |
| 11 | My Lord m may I add one further matter , er , My Lord may I say on behalf of the family er the that your Lordship 's comments will be very gratefully received er , neither Mr or Mrs , although they 've sought recognition for what they 've done for their daughter , they did it out of their fond love for her but nevertheless having such a and such comment from your Lordship will be very , very good . |
| 12 | Oh why the hell they 've put Porridge on so late ? |
| 13 | Yeah they 've put wax on these I do n't know something . |
| 14 | Chairman , I must just say about other organizations , it is approved that they 're going , part of the West Midlands region , is more better off than integral part of the region of Great Britain , or whatever , erm , if they 've got money into their region , they jolly well keep it there , we do n't know where Coventry is . |
| 15 | not , not everywhere though they 've got water on tap , but quite a few places |
| 16 | Lots , lots of people claim , in fact ever such a lot of people claim that they 've got communication with the dead , for instance that , as you know I 've got a caravan ai n't I at Rudyard Lake ? |
| 17 | They 've got alot of clearing up to do — more than they expect now . |
| 18 | Catchword tonight is on at five O five instead of four o'clock because they 've got sport on all afternoon . |
| 19 | They 've got waiver of premium . |
| 20 | Now they 've got pride of place in homes throughout the United Kingdom and this weekend they go on show at the Billing Aquadrome near Northampton . |
| 21 | Well it 's , I put down on here that er , it 's a benefit for customers that possibly their shops close half day where they can have collections , er sorry deliveries in the morning so that they 've got benefit of having deliveries A M |
| 22 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 23 | I mean , they 've got collateral in the bricks and mortar , have n't they ? |
| 24 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 25 | We try to believe they 've got power within themselves but it is n't like that , believe me . |
| 26 | They 've got sort of mind you they have their own training sort of regime as well , which in some ways is , means it 's quite good experience because it is structured in , in a , in a way to give you some training , whereas of course if you just go in to do a job then erm how much sort of training you get varies a bit . |
| 27 | and this weekend they 've got sort of erm vegetables in |
| 28 | They 've got confidence in Guy . |
| 29 | They 're good these because if they 've got display on them |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know if they 've got wind of Owen 's accident — but , unfortunately , their timing is perfect ! ’ |