Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 2 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
| 3 | Only they 'd blocked up the way in , like , and you could only get in through … |
| 4 | It was all too much , waiting for that upstart Hitler to make up his mind ; to envisage the Germans strutting down the Mall as they 'd strutted down the Champs Élysées . |
| 5 | They 'd gone down a narrow alleyway — up North they 're called ‘ ginnels ’ but do n't ask me why ; I just observe , I do n't translate — which led to another alley at right-angles . |
| 6 | Researchers could n't be sure radon was such a danger until they 'd built up a complete picture . |
| 7 | It felt like they 'd missed out a stage or two . |
| 8 | The darkness was almost complete now ; she could only see the faintest outline of his features , enough to know that they 'd taken on a hard , determined cast . |
| 9 | The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance . |
| 10 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |
| 11 | After they 'd cooled off a bit , you 'd have to go and water them . |
| 12 | And er quarter to eight er quarter to nine in the morning , all the commuters are running around half asleep , wish they 'd got up a bit earlier but they did n't . |
| 13 | They 'd got out the best china and crystal glasses , the damask napkins , the ebony-handled knives . |
| 14 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 15 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 16 | No longer did they have to go down the backstairs during the night , and into the yard and across it to where the three outdoor lavatories stood . |
| 17 | Would they have switched off the cold fountains in Trafalgar Square ? |
| 18 | That 's the theory … here 's the practical … first the course … they 've mapped out the 26 miles … the beauty of the route lies in the cobbled squares of ancient towns like Bhaktapur … the beast is the city … traffic and smoke is a major problem … the other unknown factor is altitude … |
| 19 | They , you know , at the back of us they 've blocked up the fences but I do n't know whether she 's got it right , I do n't know . |
| 20 | They 've dug up a lot of human bones at my old uncle 's house … ‘ |
| 21 | They 've pushed back the boundaries which were limiting the business . |
| 22 | As far as I know , Sainsburys have n't yet taken that decision they 've they 've hung on the brink for more than six months now . |
| 23 | I mean they 've gone out the window . |
| 24 | Over the last three years they 've built up a steady following , which is hardly surprising , since their stage show is one of the most acclaimed in local music . |
| 25 | Whenever the Fedpol think they 've built up a case on one world or another , they find platoons of sharp lawyers appearing , kilocreds are spent , evidence vanishes , witnesses have strange accidents … |
| 26 | Through word of mouth and demand from customers , they 've built up a sizable business with five drivers . |
| 27 | They 've called back the likes of former World finalists Jimmy Nilsen and Captain Mitch Shirra . |
| 28 | Whether you agree or disagree with what they do , you have to accept that they 've worked out a very complicated system of values . |
| 29 | Erm the forecast figure is our plan of getting to the end result , which is not the same thing , which is in a way it 's a bit like our overtime hours and some of the areas we said that we would spend X amount of hours in , in two months , we 've had to then change the shape of that and said we 'd have half of X over five months , so our forecast i is being done differently , cos they 've worked out the , the branch forecast quite significantly differently erm Jeremy went through , through most of th briefly most of the means of doing that this morning and it sounds a lot more sensible than what they 've done in the past . |
| 30 | And just to actually formalise they 've laid out the plan to say that we are actually doing , we are aware that this does n't combine and we are doing something about it . |