Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I hear they 've got a camera in the stumps ’ |
2 | ‘ I hear they 've got a problem to worry at there , but details I do n't know . ’ |
3 | You see they 've got a short concentration . |
4 | 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 … |
5 | They 'd planned a trip to Warwick Castle , but she could n't get the time off . |
6 | In the small grease-laden kitchen the dishes they 'd eaten a meal off were in the sink . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
9 | He 'd heard about St Manicus : they 'd done a project on him at school . |
10 | 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 |
11 | The leader hesitated and looked at the bandmaster , who said that they 'd like to but after they 'd played a request for us . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Cos we used to swear like hell if they 'd lost a door |
16 | 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 . |
17 | When Adam stopped , she saw they 'd reached a lane running between the backs of houses . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Once again they 'd reached an impasse , but in truth it really did n't matter . |
20 | They were n't interested in her war story , they 'd heard a million war stories . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Just as a matter of interest I was gon na bring up onto the er planning minutes for the tenth of January but as I was n't allowed er The I had a phone call from the electricity board following the erm erm discussions that we had about the power supply on Road , they 'd received a follow up enquiry from the press , if you recall we expressed concern that we thought that secured following the harsh winter three years ago . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The horsebox driver and his son said they 'd felt a bump but thought it was a hole in the road . |
25 | There was the thicket where they 'd hunted , and the wood where they 'd killed a fox for eating nomes . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | ‘ People like Stock , Aitken & Waterman thought they 'd discovered a formula for pop music , and there is n't a formula . |
30 | They 'd made a vow , you see , all that time ago … |