Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they 've got a short concentration . |
| 2 | Betty 's Betty has lived on they had roast beef for Christmas because they 'd eaten no red meat for so long |
| 3 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 4 | It only reminded her of how she and Trish had hooted with laughter when they 'd seen the engraved invitations that had gone out in three languages for this evening 's showing . |
| 5 | Police had hoped they 'd seen the last of the joyriding and the crowds who gather to see the stolen cars in action . |
| 6 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
| 7 | ‘ If only they 'd kept the old Dicky Doyle cover , with a few blank pages inside , it 'd still be going ’ |
| 8 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |
| 9 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 10 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |
| 11 | They 'd reached a dramatic opening , and through it she could see the moon-silvered sea hundreds of feet below , moving in a slow , deep swell towards the foot of the cliffs . |
| 12 | They were n't interested in her war story , they 'd heard a million war stories . |
| 13 | They 'd joined the International Terrorist Freemasonry … ’ |
| 14 | They 'd visited the old Mrs Scamp and then so had I and all I 'd found out was that she was Jo 's mother-in-law and probably had a picture of Hitler on her bedside table . |
| 15 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 16 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 17 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 18 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 19 | Because when Wendy and Laura had returned they 'd brought a verbal message from Suzie to the effect that she 'd met a Danish boy and had no intention of returning to England to complete her studies . |
| 20 | Cos they 'd brought a little dog to be walked . |
| 21 | ‘ And they 'd learnt a fair bit in the war , with their OSS Office of Strategic Services , same as our SOE . |
| 22 | Aberdeen arrived back from Turin this afternoon , knowing they 'd taken a major step towards the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup . |
| 23 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 24 | Dad ran a garage and petrol station on the main road through Strathspeld village and Mum had a wee gift and coffee shop ; Dad had been worried after the Six-Day War when they 'd introduced the fifty-miles-an-hour speed limit and even issued fuel-rationing books , but that had n't lasted very long and , even though petrol cost more nowadays , people were still travelling and using cars . |
| 25 | men when they 'd retrieved a live person , or even a dead one . |
| 26 | They 'd drawn the odd inquisitive glance as they 'd entered the dining-room of the Shelbourne , but Mahoney had been convinced that was because of the way Donna looked . |
| 27 | NASA scientists had thought they 'd solved the technical problems which have dogged the Space Agency . |
| 28 | Peter said it was a good game when they came home and found that Woking had won five nil they thought they 'd chosen the wrong one . |
| 29 | They 'd left the other door wide open , and as Juliet passed , she caught sight of a rumpled bed with blue sheets . |
| 30 | ‘ I was caught at Dunkirk when they thought they 'd won the bloody war . |