Example sentences of "they 've [vb pp] [pron] a " in BNC.
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1 | And they 've assigned me a prolific blighter ( 'lific blighter ) — |
2 | They 've made it a , a , a sort of through cut there , which is now going to allow people to cross over erm , it 's , it 's going to make erm , two points of pedestrian access shown on the north boundary at the site , will create new rights of way and will become short cuts for pedestrians and especially children . |
3 | My Uncle Stan and Aunt Alice are very good to me and more than good to Carrie , they 've given her a start in life she would never have had here . |
4 | ‘ They 've given me a roomette or some such , but I take this thing seriously . |
5 | They 've given me a theatre for a season . |
6 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
7 | ‘ They 've given me a lot of furniture and other things that have been passed down through the generations . |
8 | Now she came away thinking I 've got this secondhand car and they 've given me a warranty . |
9 | They 've given him a price just for painting the walls . |
10 | As John Major said , they 've given us a bloody nose . |
11 | They 've given us a German prisoner of war again . ’ |
12 | Yeah they 've charged me a fiver 's fucking commission on that . |
13 | I add them up yesterday and said what 's it , what do I do , I 've not come to , now they 've sent me a temporary one . |
14 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
15 | Well they 've sent you a letter from hospital . |
16 | The New FADS missed the boat , but , well look here , they 've built themselves a new one . |
17 | Now instead they 've offered him a new one year contract . |
18 | They 've picked themselves a chairman in David Harris of Adobe and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of DEC and Michael Harrigan of NCD and Anil Malhotra of IXI . |
19 | They 've brought you a farewell present but they think it 's just too big . |
20 | An example of that would be if you bought a new pocket calculator and then find it wo n't work then the legal position is the shop have broken their contract with you , because they 've sold you a pocket calculator which is not of merchantable quality , and you should be entitled to money back in a case like that . |
21 | They 've sponsored us a consultancy , |
22 | Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility . |
23 | Derry 's unfancied squad , written off by a lot of football pundits , are so keen to prove their detractors wrong , that they 've set themselves a demanding series of targets for the remaining four matches . |
24 | and er , they 've found me a very , very nice residential home |
25 | They 've had it a bit too easy I think . |