Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they 'd exchanged passionate views on every subject under the sun , from politics to gardening , the supernatural to the world population explosion , she began to suspect she might be coming late to that teenage affliction , blind infatuation . |
| 2 | Well and they 'd made little buns . |
| 3 | They 'd targeted known hoodlums , sent plainclothes snatch-squads round-who wore cherry berets — and ‘ disappeared ’ the culprits . |
| 4 | She remembered the difficulties they 'd had repairing Starlings after the war , when you could n't get a brick or a plank of wood , not even if you was royalty ; and she remembered comforting Nell as each granddaughter left home . |
| 5 | A large number of dogs who end up in the rescue homes would be on the vet 's euthanasia list if they 'd had different owners . |
| 6 | Out of the three statements from fellow travellors read out to the coroner , non said they 'd had previous warnings from either the travel company or the foreign office that the region they were in had experienced previous Muslim fundamentalist acts of terrorism against visitors . |
| 7 | And th th and they would be police ones if they 'd got blue lights and |
| 8 | And these stewardesses you know , they 're only just tall and ordinary you know well they they 'd got black tights , got black'uns on you know , all wore black'uns . |
| 9 | And they 'd got some funny things but they 'd got foreign names and I thought well |
| 10 | they 'd got little bits to do , but there was |
| 11 | I see they have made new breadpans of the right size out of empty cooking-oil cans from the US AID supplementary feeding programme — these were brought out recently by a local agency who helped the women to build a new oven . |
| 12 | And what they 've done is they 've asked various volunteers , mugs , call them what you will , to be er recorded while they are carrying their out their normal duties . |
| 13 | They 've invited other representatives , including some from the Borough Council : and if they were women they could n't have gone . |
| 14 | They 've made hectic visits to Brussels registering your interests and meeting with those with greatest influence in the E C institutions . |
| 15 | The performers are a Czech band called Czecho-Mor … and they 've become regular visitors . |
| 16 | Their victim says she 's delighted that they 've received long sentences . |
| 17 | How 're yuh gon na keep'em loyal to proprietary systems after they 've seen generic PCs is today 's equivalent . |
| 18 | Other people have got out and they 've done similar things to her . |
| 19 | I mean is it like how they 've done various singles in the past , Cliff Richard and ‘ Summer Holiday ’ , you know putting a little voice on top , a little snippet . |
| 20 | ‘ But they 've done wicked things . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We keep meeting these people who travel down to Cornwall and say they 've surfed big breaks , but it 's all false . |
| 22 | But I guess they have got something to point to if they 've built good roads and railways and so on . " |
| 23 | Well I do n't know because they 've put new flues and everything on these fires . |
| 24 | I suppose they 're all alike but they 've put different ones on the outside . |
| 25 | Reporters have tried smack , they 've spent voluntary weeks in jail or among lepers , on the same principle that Orwell worked in Paris as a plongeur . |
| 26 | They 've got long beaks like that . |
| 27 | . There 's quite a service buses plus they 've got mini buses running around all over the shop as well so . |
| 28 | no they 've got ordinary ones here but I mean these , are a whole lot expensive than they were at W Smith 's , yes , erm I just do n't believe this price no I suppose they 're three for one fifty nine , but that 's the size I got |
| 29 | They 've got other things to think about . ’ |
| 30 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |