Example sentences of "they have [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 After they 'd decided to restore a 200-year-old country cottage on the outskirts of Stroud , Gloucester , housewife Amanda Rawson and her husband scouted around auction rooms looking for furniture to suit it .
2 Oh they would just tell you some extraordinary story they 'd seen They 'd heard Seen a ghost or heard a ghost or a something .
3 They 'd meant to get a little fucked up .
4 She 'd seen the same thing happen to too many others in the music business , not because they 'd tried and failed to be carbon copies of Aurora Blake , but simply because they 'd tried to force a talent they simply did n't possess .
5 But at Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust , they 've decided to create a Kingfisher paradise .
6 I 'm not fighting anybody just because they 've decided to make a comeback . ’
7 They 've evidently looked you can see where they 've scratched to get a screwdriver through there to try and get the sound the sound out .
8 They 've tried to put a plaque there but it gets stolen .
9 Now they 've started making a set of strings with a Swedish steel core and a pure nickel wrap for , as they say , a longer lifespan , greater tuning stability and a more traditionally warm tonal response .
10 And they 've started to get a few things together have n't they ?
11 So far , they 've failed to make a serious dent in the all-important college music scene , essential if a so-called ‘ alternative ’ band wants to crack America ( and keep their US record deal ) .
12 Well they 've , they 've told me they 've got to go a , a tutor it 's another branch manager at a different branch .
13 He 's made a few of the lads sit up , and now they 've got to take a good , hard look at themselves . ’
14 The simple fact of the matter Mr Mayor is that vehicles coming in have got a very er simple alternative route and when they come down the hill they can turn left , go by the golf course knows very well , go round the roundabout and go round the roundabout and come in , alright they 've got to join a queue there but they 're in a queue anyway .
15 You 've you 've made it clear with him that you discriminate quite clearly between the people that go back to work because they 've got children or they 've got l lot of finan and they 've got to do a lot of financial obligations and those who who do n't .
16 They 've got to make a law , like , an' them that break it … well' — he drew in his breath noisily ‘ I would like to see them swing . ’
17 I mean som you know I suppose they 've got to make a living some how you know with the money you get off social .
18 She says they 've got to make a living .
19 We met er , a beautiful old English sheep dog , seven months old and they 've got to find a new home for it , because they 're off to America .
20 but er , they 've got to get a new mini bus apparently , there in two years , which we new and er because like every thing else , it 's funded by the school not the authorities
21 They 've got to have a bit of room to move , like . ’
22 Yes , but they 've got to have a , you , you 've got to have a , you 've got
23 now at the end of the day , whatever your own views about a contingency fund are , bearing in mind that it 's service , not management charged , if the residence do n't agree can you simply dictate to them that they 've got to have a contingency fund ?
24 In they 've got to have a certain
25 Well , they 've got to have a bus to get to Barnet Green I think .
26 I ca n't understand it , they 've got to have a decent grade to go to university , but they seem to think that they can get in on D's and E's , if he gets D's and E's , he 's not going anywhere , except to work
27 The reason Chandler can get away with this is because they 've chosen to use a slotted headstock with side-mounted Kluson machines , and that 's what gives the strings the necessary angle to stop them jumping out of the nut slots .
28 The party is being held in a ballroom the size of Carnegie Hall and they 've forgotten to provide a podium so the people at the back have no idea you 're there .
29 They 've had to open a service for them , they 're all getting their stamps
30 All too often women say to me , basically they 've had to fake a sick line themselves because their mother or their father
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