Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've stopped their publishers take action over several infringements — ‘ We thought it 's not really in our spirit ’ — but some still rile . |
| 2 | Cos we 've broken our egg cups the other day , do you remember ? |
| 3 | I 've heard their name mentioned by someone at college . |
| 4 | They 've heard his mother hammering on the door , demanding that he open it to her . |
| 5 | Only the odd occasion I 've heard your nan say , No . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've heard your name mentioned , ’ she says , her voice high , her accent only slightly northern . |
| 7 | I reckoned I 've heard my mam say Tommy . |
| 8 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 9 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do you think I 've let my tongue slip once with those creatures of yours marking my every word ? |
| 12 | I 've taken over the last few months when we 've done our sales training here , talking to certainly on advanced sales skills courses and so on , I 've tried to bring an air of realism to their world . |
| 13 | Yeah , you 've done your pills have n't you ? |
| 14 | I suppose I 've done my part to help them by writing extensively about laser weapons for New Scientist and other magazines . |
| 15 | They 've seen their turnover halve from four and a half million since 1989 . |
| 16 | But there 's always some manner in which we ca n't quite break free , and most of us will find ourselves one shocked moment holding a girlfriend or boyfriend in the way we 've seen our parents holding each other for years . |
| 17 | Or they can be over-generous in an embarrassing way : I 've seen my wife offered the choice of a better cut of meat in a butcher 's shop , when there are little old ladies queueing up . |
| 18 | Like , I 've seen my name written down about five times on that last page . |
| 19 | I 've seen my mother stand them on the table , middle of the table you know , the oil lamps . |
| 20 | I 've seen my mam take sheets off a bed and tear them up in squares . |
| 21 | And it 's true , I 've seen my husband get water and wash it out well and er put powder and that because , and yet you should n't , you see they were n't safe really but they was that poor love they had to . |
| 22 | You 've grown your hair doing this ? |
| 23 | They 've made their views known to the pastor , who 's also chairman of the playgroup . |
| 24 | You 've made his ears fly up like a donkey 's . ’ |
| 25 | You 've made my life complete for the first time since your mother died . ’ |
| 26 | Oh I suppose he 's invested it wrongly or whatever I do n't know I I can understand why they did n't come to his rescue , you know , I mean , they 've got their livelihood to think about and he was a bachelor where as they 've got children , or and he 's brothers and they 're |
| 27 | We 've got their Mum gave us a French dictionary , but my is the in French now they ca n't get The number of English words there are in there it 's |
| 28 | I think they 've got their cost structures er a a little bit out of line and I have to be honest that I think that some of them have thought that er all you have to do is , you know , keep a brass plate outside your door for fifty years and the work would roll in . |
| 29 | Well that 's it , erm , like she , I do n't think she makes a fortune , she only makes enough probably for food and that , he does n't make that much off his dad because his dad 's a stingy thing , but he does the taxing as well and he does foreigners , but erm , you know , like they 've got their bills to pay and everything , they do n't economize on anything , they have massive gas bills and |
| 30 | Where they 've got their van sited it is |