Example sentences of "they have [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Leave them alone until someone who understands them has examined the site .
2 The promotion has led to some shops selling out of £120 vacuum cleaners , and the Cambuslang , Strathclyde , factory that makes them has defied the recession by switching to seven-day working .
3 But even in the case of such an Act , if there are superadded provisions which attach to non-payment consequences other than a bare liability to be sued , there can be no justification for refusing to have regard to those consequences and to consider whether the existence of the provisions creating them has placed the payer under such pressure that the payments have not in truth been voluntary .
4 None of them has made a hash of things like the British government .
5 This growth of alternative markets for short-term money and the instruments that go with them has made the supply and demand for short-term money extremely competitive .
6 Sixty two Firefly engines were made in the mid-nineteenth century and not one of them has survived the scrapheap .
7 For example , if there are several quite unrelated species of unpalatable butterflies living in one particular region and one of them has evolved a warning pattern of black , yellow and red markings , it will pay the others to follow suit because they will then all share the ‘ training risks ’ associated with novice predators .
8 Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour .
9 And one of them has had a day off .
10 Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’
11 The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers .
12 This not only gave the masters an extra hour 's work but saved them having to pay the breakfast allowance of 1½d ( 0.6p ) .
13 ‘ I hear they 've got a problem to worry at there , but details I do n't know . ’
14 ‘ I hear they 've got a camera in the stumps ’
15 London Irish thought they 'd scored a try here … the ref tho rightly gave a knock on … and the cherry and whites rolled on to take the lead with a penalty from Martin Roberts … another penalty apiece made it six three to Gloucester at half-time … but they deserved more … the forwards were fired up but so too was the exiles defence which took a fair old hammering … the turning point came at the start of the second half when referee David Matthews awarded Gloucester a penalty try …
16 Bluebeard had been a private joke — an exclamation she had been unable to stifle as they 'd rounded the cliff at the head of the valley and she had got her first glimpse of the imposing turreted Castell Rocamar .
17 They 'd planned a trip to Warwick Castle , but she could n't get the time off .
18 She 'd thought a lot about this since they 'd planned the trip .
19 They 'd caused no end of problems for the nomes .
20 They 'd completed the tour of his spacious offices on the waterfront at Msida .
21 They 'd split up and about a year later , they 'd formed The Box and wanted to get a record out , and that 's how it started in January ‘ 83 .
22 In the small grease-laden kitchen the dishes they 'd eaten a meal off were in the sink .
23 Rory talked fast and funnily , told them of the rat they 'd found in the caravan when they 'd come to it , recounted the horrors of a little restaurant in Buncrana where they 'd eaten the night before , and laughed at the way he and Mallachy had sailed past the beach a thousand times before deciding to boldly ask them for a drink .
24 Doubtful if he ever dented a heart ; more than likely he gave quite a number of hearts a new lift after they 'd imagined the ball was over for them .
25 Her mouth was a red gash in her powdered face and when in Act Two she told her husband that the degenerate Martin had never loved her , never ever , even though they 'd conducted an affair , real tears trickled from her tragic eyes .
26 We ran this kind of course by asking the teachers at the beginning of the course to select some device they 'd like to make , that they 'd seen the circuit of in a in a school magazine school science review magazine , and then build that .
27 They 'd seen the film that summer at Abbotsfield .
28 It was only two o'clock , they 'd seen the parade many times before , and Mike 's match would n't start before 4.15 .
29 now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand
30 He 'd heard about St Manicus : they 'd done a project on him at school .
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