Example sentences of "they 've get [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've got long beaks like that . |
| 2 | . There 's quite a service buses plus they 've got mini buses running around all over the shop as well so . |
| 3 | no they 've got ordinary ones here but I mean these , are a whole lot expensive than they were at W Smith 's , yes , erm I just do n't believe this price no I suppose they 're three for one fifty nine , but that 's the size I got |
| 4 | They 've got other things to think about . ’ |
| 5 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying they 're not willing , but they 've got other drags on them . |
| 7 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 8 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 9 | They have many more management techniques , which we did n't have — which we 've given them — and of course they 've got new ideas coming along as well. , Pearce 's own progression within Esso was a series of the grasped opportunities he talks about enthusiastically . |
| 10 | They assume that when a child hears ‘ Two twos are four , two threes are six ’ that they 've got various pictures in their heads , various ideas onto which to attach these symbols and these words . |
| 11 | My Peter and they 've got rotten coughs . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , they 've got great stories like olden times . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They 've got great stadiums , good rugby organisations and very astute administrators from both a corporate and organisations point of view . |
| 14 | I was in Woolworths the other day an they 've got smocked dresses now , hand smocked dresses . |
| 15 | They 've got nice boys up Walthamstow . |
| 16 | Some guys are n't going to be able to walk for a week — they 've got tattered feet , but er nobody begrudges it , nobody begrudges it at all . |
| 17 | cos I do n't know why they 've got blooming queues in fish shop |
| 18 | They 've got certain channels and ways of doing things and they 're loathe to venture outside of them . |
| 19 | You know often they do n't stay through the whole meeting but if they 've got specific points to bring up you know th you know it 's flexible really you know sort of depending on what 's going on really . |
| 20 | ‘ Listen , Jack , Dad and Steve — they 've got lousy jobs at Sakata . |
| 21 | They 've now got the quality right , they 've got good models and it' a very good sales and marketing strategy . |
| 22 | And they 've got good reasons for what they do . |
| 23 | They 've got good jobs . |
| 24 | She says they 've got good facilites and can cater for children up to 16 . |
| 25 | Introverts are more the other way round whereas they 've got narrow interests , narrow fields of interest but they look at them in depth . |
| 26 | In an apparent non sequitur , the speaker added : ‘ They 've got intransigent problems , but so far they have n't succumbed to the blandishments of the communists ; that 's why the west pours money in ’ . |
| 27 | Cos journalists in general , are a of what be described as a lazy breed , but they 've got tremendous demands on their time . |
| 28 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 29 | She judges everybody by their star sign , too , avoiding Scorpios because they 've got a sting in their tail , Geminis because they 've got split personalities and Taureans because they 're stubborn , irrespective of the staggering complexity of human nature . |
| 30 | They 've got British passports ! |