Example sentences of "they 've [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only mercy is that most of them are put out of their misery before they 've lived a tenth of their natural lifespan . |
| 2 | And th they they 've announced the next day that they 're having the same concert as well ! |
| 3 | That means , they 've raised a third , we 've given them a third , and they got a third to raise . |
| 4 | They 've hit the first … ’ |
| 5 | So they will be expecting to hear either they 've got a second interview or they have n't . |
| 6 | Cos they 've got a next to nothing mortgage . |
| 7 | Their parents like to leave toys by the graves , but on several occasions they 've returned the next day to find them missing . |
| 8 | However , what many fail to realize is that they are already falling ; just because they 've passed the nineteenth floor without mishap does n't mean all will be well when ground zero is reached . |
| 9 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 10 | they 've won the last six home matches |
| 11 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |