Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear they 've got a problem to worry at there , but details I do n't know . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I hear they 've got a camera in the stumps ’ |
| 3 | London Irish thought they 'd scored a try here … the ref tho rightly gave a knock on … and the cherry and whites rolled on to take the lead with a penalty from Martin Roberts … another penalty apiece made it six three to Gloucester at half-time … but they deserved more … the forwards were fired up but so too was the exiles defence which took a fair old hammering … the turning point came at the start of the second half when referee David Matthews awarded Gloucester a penalty try … |
| 4 | They 'd planned a trip to Warwick Castle , but she could n't get the time off . |
| 5 | In the small grease-laden kitchen the dishes they 'd eaten a meal off were in the sink . |
| 6 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 7 | He 'd heard about St Manicus : they 'd done a project on him at school . |
| 8 | The leader hesitated and looked at the bandmaster , who said that they 'd like to but after they 'd played a request for us . |
| 9 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 10 | Cos we used to swear like hell if they 'd lost a door |
| 11 | They 'd crossed a highway while there was no traffic , they 'd blundered around in damp undergrowth , scurrying away from every chirp and mysterious croak , and finally they 'd found the plastic . |
| 12 | When Adam stopped , she saw they 'd reached a lane running between the backs of houses . |
| 13 | They were uncertain of her , she could feel it as surely as if they 'd appointed a spokesman to stand up and tell her so . |
| 14 | Well , not that bad really , but they 'd laden a van in London bound for Torquay , and managed to overfill it somewhat , so that when membership services executive Kevin Ramage ( driver ) and conference executive Meryl Halls ( navigator ) were stopped on the road to Torquay and instructed by the police to proceed to the nearest weighbridge , they were found to be in contravention of the law . |
| 15 | The horsebox driver and his son said they 'd felt a bump but thought it was a hole in the road . |
| 16 | There was the thicket where they 'd hunted , and the wood where they 'd killed a fox for eating nomes . |
| 17 | They trailed by three goals to one , they 'd missed a number of chances in the second period , and after Steve Bull had put Wolves three nil up with a hat trick in the opening twenty four minutes . |
| 18 | Perhaps they meant it , but he died of a fever his first winter here and it must have seemed to him that they 'd broken a promise . |
| 19 | There they 'd lit a fire and cooked the rice , but before starting to eat they 'd made an offering to Ban Bhāi , god of the forest , asking permission to plunder his lands . |
| 20 | ‘ People like Stock , Aitken & Waterman thought they 'd discovered a formula for pop music , and there is n't a formula . |
| 21 | Then there was another one , outside the church , they 'd made a hole for a man to sit in there , and he used to sell papers . |
| 22 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |
| 23 | They 'd made a mistake . |
| 24 | I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five . |
| 25 | Oh so they 'd made a mistake . |
| 26 | I knew they 'd made a lot of money . |
| 27 | They 'd made a vow , you see , all that time ago … |
| 28 | It was n't until yesterday that Swindon Police announced they 'd arrested a man in connection with Joan 's disappearance . |
| 29 | Partly because they themselves were running running short of money er they they had a er lost a lot of lawsuits and they 'd spent a lot of money rebuilding their abbey church their priory church over at . |
| 30 | Last week they 'd shared a bottle of champagne to celebrate the birth of the seventh grandchild . |