Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the [adj] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because , I mean the elderly have got little enough , okay , there is extra benefit , but they do n't want people to know how poor they are . |
| 2 | At first I thought the unlikely had happened and I had a fan out there somewhere . |
| 3 | Well I thought the three had gone . |
| 4 | We employ 30,000 people in the UK business and I speak to 15,000 of them every year in groups of 200 or less , because I think the Japanese have shown what good human relations can achieve . |
| 5 | ‘ Well done , ladies , ’ Charles winked at Hari , ‘ I see the rich have come to stare , let us hope that they are as free with their orders as they are with drinking your champagne . ’ |
| 6 | Er they were banking on the fact that there 'd be problems for other countries because of , you know , public perception etcetera , you know the French had decided almost all of them decided they 'd have a nuclear programme anyway so , so , so they were er o okay . |
| 7 | It was so still in the room that it seemed the three had suspended their dealings by mutual consent in order to catch the barely audible undulations of a distant ambulance siren . |