Example sentences of "they have [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear they 've poured oil on the sea and set it alight ’ said a shore boy . |
| 2 | There had been a moon when they 'd first arrived , but the clouds had come while they were chopping wood , and the rain while they 'd cooked dinner on the two little primus stoves . |
| 3 | But surely not as furious as he would have been afterwards , if they 'd given way to the temptations of their flesh ? |
| 4 | And in the Bible it 's recorded that for example there are some cases where there was a big storm and they lost sight of land and all the sailors er promptly panicked because once they 'd lost sight of land they had n't got a clue where they were . |
| 5 | She was worrying that they 'd made love at the wrong time of the month . |
| 6 | She had n't told Julie about her hopes for a reconciliation with Ross — nor , of course , about the fact that they 'd made love to each other . |
| 7 | At the height of their affair they 'd made love from dusk to dawn on several occasions ; toying and teasing , stopping to bathe so they 'd have the bliss of working up a second sweat . |
| 8 | Their lawyer said they 'd brought shame on the whole hunting world . |
| 9 | They 'd brought food with them , quite a lot of food . |
| 10 | They 'd spent part of the morning carrying boxes of some sort from one hut to another , apparently fairly heavy boxes , because it took both men to carry them . |
| 11 | Many of the players in the Olympic cricket match were n't even aware that they 'd taken part in the Olympic Games at all . |
| 12 | They 'd taken pride in planning for every eventuality , but there was nothing much they could do when an oncoming driver had a heart attack at the wheel and steered straight into the path of their Rover saloon . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , I thought they 'd taken care of them , ’ said Jenny . |
| 14 | they 'd taken control from the parent , and the parents quite readily gave that control to the state , they no longer had parental control |
| 15 | they 'd introduced capitalism into China |
| 16 | they 'd introduced capitalism into Russia |
| 17 | Let me tell you … let me tell you … ’ she racked her brains ‘ … about the time the twins thought they 'd found gold in the creek on our farm . |
| 18 | Oh yeah these maintenance contracts are the lowest , I mean I took one out on my mum 's C D player because they 'd , they 'd had trouble with it , er multi play , turns out it was the stack one they had trouble with not that one , but it was only thirty quid for four years I mean |
| 19 | There , they 'd recieved cannabis from an unamed person . |
| 20 | Yes , but you went last week so I did n't but they 'd got stuff for you |
| 21 | They returned to the stand-pipe where they 'd got water from earlier , to find the tanker gone . |
| 22 | And this is what the other blacksmiths had done : they 'd got hold of the horse 's hair and the horse could n't bear it to be touched . |
| 23 | Usual anti-climax — old birds standing round a bit o' grass at t'back they 'd got lease of for a few hours , wi' a garden label saying Mrs Edna Morrison and a few bunches of chrysanths put in rows . |
| 24 | sometimes it may be to do with dress , demeanour , mannerisms , you know , kind of again you know people go for oh I do n't know , I mean there 's a conversation er I remember overhearing erm with some friends in Leicester and they , they go to motorbike rallies a lot and erm er they were describing an incident where they pitched their tent at a rally and some blokes came up and pitched their tent next to them and they were erm two blokes had arrived together on the same enormous immaculate motorbike and they 'd got sort of matching leather outfits erm |
| 25 | It had taken them four days to cover the hundred-odd miles and they 'd commanded attention from Larling to Epping . |
| 26 | We picked these up on a visit we made to the island of Haiti a few years ago , and they 've become part of our Christmas celebrations ever since . ’ |
| 27 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 28 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 29 | ‘ They 've seen Doctor In The House images — all work , and medical textbooks being pored over . |
| 30 | I do n't know cos I 've never actually erm been in a place where they 've done sort of thing really . |