Example sentences of "people have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void
2 Some people have mounted a coup d'état .
3 At Barclays de Zoete Wedd , whose report on the sector is due out this week , analyst Jane Anscombe points out that there are currently some worries on the advertising revenue front , and that some television people have seen a bit of pressure .
4 Well , people have seen a ghost .
5 Over the last few years , thousands of people have received a variety of training through the Business Venture , which is made up of senior local businessmen and two council officials one Conservative and one Labour .
6 Many people have employed a variety of mouse and rat poisons without stopping to think that the initial effect of such toxins is to slow down the victim which then becomes an easy target for a hunting cat .
7 All these people have discovered a passion for one of the most popular recreational sports , sailing , and as you can see , you can take it up at any age .
8 Some people have made a god of it .
9 In part it must mean that past generations of people have created a culture and it has been handed down to the present generation .
10 Well the mortgage people have said a couple of days
11 I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards .
12 God 's people have committed a sin which He finds almost beyond belief .
13 One of the most striking results of the research was that young people have identified a lack of educational programmes , as well as of programmes that examine the emotions , affections , sexuality and identity of people of their own age group .
14 I think it 's always the problem Sam where people have used a manual based system for so long
15 I think there 's also the type very often these people have left a family , a wife and children behind
16 Many people have drawn a parallel between Salengro 's death and that of Pierre Bérégovoy , until recently France 's prime minister , who committed suicide on May 1st .
17 The explicit or implicit argument is that elderly people have experienced a constriction of economic liberty in modern Britain because of the sometimes deliberate and sometimes unconscious course of development of social welfare and employment policies .
18 Others , including a senior civil servant in the education ministry , Eberhard Boning , see the unwillingness to take risks as a symptom of a more widespread complacency in German society ; the current generation of young people have experienced a combination of material well-being and an insecure and threatening world scene ; both factors detracting from incentive for personal achievement .
19 More than two thousand people have signed a petition opposing the merger .
20 Around 2,500 people have signed a petition calling for a swimming pool in Bedale .
21 Nearly 170 people have signed a protest petition and local Coun Ken Corbett says it will be too close to newly-built flats for the elderly .
22 Their MI5 people have loaned a country house in Surrey .
23 For instance , how many people have watched a woman carrying a load of shopping and a three year old child , or cleaning up after an incontinent elderly relation , and still been able to maintain that some jobs are too heavy and dirty for women ?
24 People have talked a bit about their children and er and , and how beautiful they are , supposing you were a fairy god mother and you were at a christening and you had a wand and you could endow one gift , would it be beauty ? , is beauty the most important gift ? , button one for yes and button two for no and I 'd love to go round the world and ask this question , but out of one hundred Scottish women seven of you say yes , but ninety three of you think there is a more important gift than beauty and what that might be we shall talk about another time , but for all thank you now , thank you for watching , good bye
25 people have talked a lot about collaboration and the need for joint working and so on .
26 Nevin said : ‘ Some people have put a question mark over our away form but we have n't always got what we deserved so to beat a side of Leicester 's calibre is very heartening .
27 Well like being insu , like people have got a choice of different options of insurances and
28 Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them .
29 The object of that was do n't assume that people have got a sign for , you know .
30 If people have got a problem , they ring us up and we 're here to look after them .
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