Example sentences of "they 've get [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 They 've got other things to think about . ’
32 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 .
33 I 'm not saying they 're not willing , but they 've got other drags on them .
34 Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do
35 And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it !
36 They have many more management techniques , which we did n't have — which we 've given them — and of course they 've got new ideas coming along as well. , Pearce 's own progression within Esso was a series of the grasped opportunities he talks about enthusiastically .
37 if ever you get to the stage where the left of the party or the right of the party , either extreme wing , feel that they 've got such power , that they can pull the whole thing their way , the danger is that the bits at the other end will snap and that of course is the disunity danger which had absolutely devastated the Labour party , where the left did exactly that and the moderate centre That 's if you can call it that , snapped off .
38 Erm unless it 's actually a meeting that you 're recording use the other things cos they 're just they 've got bigger spaces for writing down what people 's first words were and stuff like that ,
39 ( 12 ) For Eyes ( Harvard OTC ) " They 've got eighteen opticians , including a fantastic new one in Oxford Street … "
40 They 've got negative acceleration .
41 They assume that when a child hears ‘ Two twos are four , two threes are six ’ that they 've got various pictures in their heads , various ideas onto which to attach these symbols and these words .
42 They 've got six managers on Carnegie course , nine hundred pounds each .
43 They 've got six months from the grant to do that .
44 Perhaps when they come back they 've got six months you know they 've got a month 's work on their hands .
45 they 've got six weeks exactly until Easter
46 My Peter and they 've got rotten coughs .
47 but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it .
48 And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there .
49 Well there 's only two on tomorrow morning and there are four wards and they 've got five admissions this afternoon .
50 ‘ Well , they 've got great stories like olden times . ’
51 They 've got great stadiums , good rugby organisations and very astute administrators from both a corporate and organisations point of view .
52 I was in Woolworths the other day an they 've got smocked dresses now , hand smocked dresses .
53 They 've got nice boys up Walthamstow .
54 And course , they had , with us you know at one time and now they 've got that holiday again now , so I mean none of them would of been cheap when they did it .
55 Len pulled up the collar of his great coat up over his ears , then added , ‘ I hope they 've got that stove going .
56 yeah and er I would n't mind the extra width , I do n't know if they 've got that size in though
57 But they 've got that marble .
58 Well they 've got that girl over there 's got soup .
59 So I said wonder if they 've got that headboard for Ken , you know I did n't know he had one I said we 'll have a look and see how much they are .
60 Mm , mm , yeah , I must admit I would n't , I agree with what you say , where I would n't classify those people as being of no fixed abode , they 're not necessarily of no fixed abode , there are a lot of people who would , living in flats and Council houses and things like that , they 've got that attitude
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