Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 2 | Well , I see they 've instructed you in the story of your birth , since you had so thriving a grudge against me . |
| 3 | The date on it used to be 1623 , but I see they 've changed it to 1610 , though I do n't agree with either of those dates . |
| 4 | see they 've got it to for a fortnight which you do n't get paid . |
| 5 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 6 | They 'd suspected him of rigging her escape , and now their suspicions were confirmed . |
| 7 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 8 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 9 | It took them what she reported it as soon as the office opened and they 'd done it at about ten twelve time . |
| 10 | They 'd done it for Adam and Christopher and they 'd do it for him . |
| 11 | They 'd done it in Gaelic to cover up the vulgarity . |
| 12 | They 'd kept him in a kiosk on Brighton front day and night waiting for the Germans to invade . |
| 13 | He 'd thrown rocks at windows of offices and works they 'd sacked him from , he 'd defaced buildings , scratched officials ' cars and mutilated bonnet mascots ( though that was largely for his own safety ) and he 'd made bomb-hoax telephone calls . |
| 14 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 15 | They 'd followed him for years when he was politically active . |
| 16 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 17 | as if they 'd robbed him of something . |
| 18 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 19 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 20 | I 'd seen the play — some touring company did it — they 'd made it into SF , all in space , and Oedipus was a two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox character trying to kiss his mother with one of his faces and weep sorrowful tears with the other . |
| 21 | My parents were fond of travel , and they 'd brought me on a trip , long before people had even heard of package holidays . |
| 22 | Car dealers say the world 's fastest production car may not prove to be the sellout they 'd expected it to be . |
| 23 | They 'd taken her from the police cells after two days . |
| 24 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 25 | Thought they 'd closed it between . |
| 26 | She 'd aroused suspicion in some member of the staff and they 'd reported her to Brückner 's widow . |
| 27 | But not wishing to have the bother of carrying them , they 'd left them on a chair in the kitchen . |
| 28 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 29 | They 'd found them after five days , with Sandy 's parents hammering at Ted every minute of the time . |
| 30 | Fortunately , Jed was going to be sleeping at Mrs Neary 's that night ; they could n't have made more noise exploring the Hall if they 'd found it to be haunted . |