Example sentences of "they have [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh they would just tell you some extraordinary story they 'd seen They 'd heard Seen a ghost or heard a ghost or a something . |
| 2 | I did n't offer them more coffee , and when they 'd gone I mooched around the flat hoping to wind down . |
| 3 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 4 | That they 've done what they 've said they 've done , and made a note on the things they 'd said they 'd done , but they had n't done . |
| 5 | They 'd said he 'd been caught in a heliborne ambush and killed in hand to hand combat by a malai captain . |
| 6 | And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold . |
| 7 | I talk to them about the choices they 've made which led them to offend , and help them to find strategies to avoid it in the future , ’ she explains . |
| 8 | Yeah whether or not you whether or not you think it 's been induced by the fact that , that they 've heard what happened in and they think that they can start doing that as opposed to ch as opposed to just saying we 're going to exist by creating |
| 9 | they 've got themselves stuck on the nine o'clock appointment |
| 10 | They 've sold us rigged cubes before . |
| 11 | They had complained it painted a picture of the IRA operating freely in Dublin as they claimed responsibility for shootings and bombings . |
| 12 | The bomb-bay of a Mosquito was too small to accommodate so large a bomb , and they had to carry them slung underneath the fuselage with the bomb doors open . |
| 13 | So after they had gone I began to use the tower . |
| 14 | When Thursday came and they had gone I found myself alone with Robert . |
| 15 | When they had gone he turned again to her . |
| 16 | She held her breath until they passed by , but once they had gone she felt safe . |
| 17 | When they had gone she felt fulfilled , emptied , at peace . |
| 18 | When they had gone she went to the phone and she said , ‘ I must see you . |
| 19 | But when they had gone she turned and said , If I was going to die tomorrow I should be mad . |
| 20 | So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything . |
| 21 | The men went into the little cabin and when they had eaten they thanked Babushka and went off to sleep . |
| 22 | The in-house survey referred to above found that 78 per cent of the weekend guests had gone to the hotel because they had read it offered leisure facilities . |
| 23 | In order to understand what they had found they needed to classify the fossil organisms into particular kinds , more or less similar , to impose an order on what would otherwise have been a vast and chaotic mass of different and apparently unrelated relics . |
| 24 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 25 | Before they had the motorcycles they had to walk which meant a lot of travelling time and then less time at the , each village when they arrived . |
| 26 | They were as welcoming as ever ; a little surprised because they had thought I had forsaken them . |
| 27 | It was as if they had forgotten they owned her . |
| 28 | If they had to stay they moved about the place like shadows . |
| 29 | But they had to house you did n't they ? |
| 30 | What they had told me put quite a different complexion on the ‘ mystery ’ . |