Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 2 | For example , if there are several quite unrelated species of unpalatable butterflies living in one particular region and one of them has evolved a warning pattern of black , yellow and red markings , it will pay the others to follow suit because they will then all share the ‘ training risks ’ associated with novice predators . |
| 3 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 4 | And one of them has had a day off . |
| 5 | Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I hear they 've got a camera in the stumps ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I hear they 've got a problem to worry at there , but details I do n't know . ’ |
| 8 | You see they 've got a short concentration . |
| 9 | A year later she and her son Samuel travelled to Bury St Edmunds , where they helped found a Congregational church . |
| 10 | The strategy they used involved an ingenious mixture of design and chance . |
| 11 | Police have issued a photofit of man they say stabbed a teenager several times in an unprovoked attack . |
| 12 | As an estimate of the drift of religious change and of what was acceptable to local people , the tactics they adopted proved a hideous disaster whose memories have scarred the country to the present day . |
| 13 | They ca n't tell , cos somebody comes up they says used a , used a |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | They 'd planned a trip to Warwick Castle , but she could n't get the time off . |
| 16 | In the small grease-laden kitchen the dishes they 'd eaten a meal off were in the sink . |
| 17 | Her mouth was a red gash in her powdered face and when in Act Two she told her husband that the degenerate Martin had never loved her , never ever , even though they 'd conducted an affair , real tears trickled from her tragic eyes . |
| 18 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
| 19 | He 'd heard about St Manicus : they 'd done a project on him at school . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | The leader hesitated and looked at the bandmaster , who said that they 'd like to but after they 'd played a request for us . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Cos we used to swear like hell if they 'd lost a door |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When Adam stopped , she saw they 'd reached a lane running between the backs of houses . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Once again they 'd reached an impasse , but in truth it really did n't matter . |
| 30 | They were n't interested in her war story , they 'd heard a million war stories . |