Example sentences of "they [verb] got the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes , well you see they 've got the names |
| 2 | We arrived at their home in Bruton , Somerset , only to find that they 'd got the date wrong and were n't prepared for us . |
| 3 | The the Jolly George er was a ship that was loaded with arms er to send to Russia , to for our the use of our troops in Russia , and the sailors refused to sail it , and there was quite a to do about this because they 'd got the steam up and it was ready to go but they never went . |
| 4 | But there was no stopping Swindon once they 'd got the second . |
| 5 | Instead they 'd got the Pope and an article about a highly paid journalist , Simon Winchester , eating a dog for dinner . |
| 6 | Well no , that was another thing more or less as I was coming out the door they 'd got the news thing on and this was Australia the new prime minister , I do n't know his name , he 's running down I did n't hear it properly but I heard the gist of it , erm and it |
| 7 | An ’ then , within a few years , they 'd got the babby an' she 'd given up teaching . |
| 8 | Well , they 'd got the skeleton that wanted a big brass lock but er oh you know , lovely and er it was more trouble getting the thing through the pan to get er the case than putting the insides in it , if you follow what I mean . |
| 9 | They 're living independent parallel lives , as it were , and you need to take into account housing erm and I imagine that this is a if you take the elderly , for example , one major concern is the number of old people , particularly widowed women who live alone — increasingly ca n't cope , they go into care , private nursing homes if they 've got the wherewithal , geriatric hospitals . |
| 10 | It 's probably where they 've got the dartboard and that in there . |
| 11 | Yes , whether they can actually , whether they 've got the skills to silver serve , if your menu requires that it 's silver served then , then , yes clearly you would need to consider that . |
| 12 | They 've got the ability to score from 70 metres out , as they showed against Scotland , so why not go for it ? |
| 13 | Whether or the , they 've got the ability to cook what you 've put on the menu . |
| 14 | Five , they 've got the girls , they 're going to school now are n't |
| 15 | So they 've learnt that they ca n't implement land reform unless they 've got the support of the popular masses and it 's got to come from them cos ultimately they , they 're pursuing land reform in order to get the peasant support and if that 's not what they want there 's no point in just erm imposing it on them . |
| 16 | And they 've got the support of Gloucester MP and barrister Douglas French . |
| 17 | I hope they 've got the sense to bring air powered cutters . |
| 18 | They 've got the Granada , yeah . |
| 19 | You 'll say you should n't afford it here and neither should I , but in dentistry they 've got the edge on us and you ca n't begrudge teeth . |
| 20 | ‘ They 've got the Dean at the moment and the Archdeacon 's next . |
| 21 | He says they 've got the interests of the whole county to consider and they want to provide modern patient care . |
| 22 | They 've got the engine . |
| 23 | You work forty years of your life you 're made redundant all that time you paid insurance , tax and after twelve months they 've got the gall to take money you paid all your life off your unemployment and throw you on income . |
| 24 | Well they 've got the depot at Rochdale which services up to Blackpool and this was out on a limb . |
| 25 | Subtitled How The World Will Change In The Depression Of The 1990s , its central hypothesis is that we are headed for a major depression , that deflation will return , that property prices will collapse by two-thirds , that Islam will pour into the power vacuum left by communism , that taxes will soar , that many major corporations will cease to exist , that anyone wealthy enough will flee big cities and away from the gangs controlling them , that countries like India , Canada , South Africa and Israel will fall to bits , that there will be plagues of locusts and frogs and that firstborn sons ought to head for the hills while they 've got the chance . |
| 26 | When they 're young and they 've got the chance . |
| 27 | While they 've got the chance to go . |
| 28 | It 's a great big , it 's little snack bars everywhere and they 've got the Italian and the Chinese and then they 've got the |
| 29 | I E if it works out in er that the younger guys to match up with the make sure they 've got the experience to actually fault find on the machine if |
| 30 | They 've got the anorak that 's in Crewe |