Example sentences of "they [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had they considered the previous state of the law ? |
| 2 | Charles Gorham , the deaf founder-secretary and editor of The Deaf and Dumb Times , within days of the foundation of the BDDA , registered his personal dissent in the issue of August 1890 : The Congress , in deciding that the title should be " The British Deaf and Dumb Association " , would have done better had they omitted the objectionable word " dumb " , which is really unnecessary and has proved very misleading to the public . |
| 3 | had they seen the Royal Bank ads ? |
| 4 | What , then , are these models , and how have they shaped the Left perspective on the British constitution , and on the need for change in the rules and the institutions of the political game in Britain ? |
| 5 | Have they noticed the recent decision of the federal Government of Brazil to allocate 94,000 sq kilometres of tropical rain forest as a preserve for the Yanomami Indians ? |
| 6 | Her wonderful speech about the death of an aunt ( ’ It 's my belief they done the old woman in ’ ) is as blissfully funny as anything on the London stage . |
| 7 | Er they done the broken metal and then they put on the top of it and then they come along with a watering cart and er splashed water on it and then |
| 8 | Had they obeyed the accepted rules of warfare they would have stayed somewhere ‘ further down ’ . |
| 9 | Millions of British motorists are driving cars more plush than they would ever choose to own were they handed the extra money and told to spend it themselves . |
| 10 | ‘ And there it is , your throneships , ’ said Bith , beaming , because when all was said and done , had n't they produced the finest old sketches ever heard of and was n't there good reason for them to feel proud ? |
| 11 | So not only have they got the cheap labour , they 've got the cheap and highly effective machinery . |
| 12 | There are twenty eight thousand up and down the country waiting to find out , have they got the correct grade . |
| 13 | Sam , Sam pick up the mustard , say Sam , Sam pick up the mustard , have they got the right |
| 14 | come around maybe you can have some of Er have they got the little barry things ? |
| 15 | They were tricked into doing so because , although in a sense they entered voluntarily , they would not have entered had they known the true nature of the shop and its managers . |
| 16 | They were on the front doorstep , or round the front doorstep , probably say on the front doorstep , trouble is they found the front doorstep on the side |
| 17 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 18 | Have they read the white paper ? |