Example sentences of "[be] what they 've " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
| 2 | If freedom 's what they 've got . |
| 3 | England did n't stipulate ‘ remote ’ — but that 's what they 've got in Santander on the breezy northern coast that 's home to golfing star Seve Ballesteros . |
| 4 | I think that 's what they 've really wanted all the way along . ’ |
| 5 | There it 's got tunnels and it 's metal around the edge and it 's green three four three four three four to ring for a bash at Kids ' County and er we know it 's not the Major Oak cos that 's what they 've both guessed so far all right . |
| 6 | Eat a nome and you die , that 's what they 've learned . ’ |
| 7 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 8 | And when you take on the role always hold something in reserve , so it 's what they 've created , but here 's something unexpected about it . |
| 9 | th th they defend that against the Japanese and then in , early in forty seven the come in and take it over so it 's an enormous psychological shock erm and they recognize that erm they , they , they do need to er they recognize that the way is through mass support , they think that 's what they 've got ta get , and they 've got ta get it quickly . |
| 10 | They welcomed John McCarthy and Jill Morrell like heroes and to many that 's what they 've become . |
| 11 | And that 's what they 've been cut off for . |
| 12 | That 's what they 've made the old Anglesey Road hospital into . |
| 13 | That 's what they 've got . |
| 14 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 15 | and that 's what they 've done , all then that done ripped it |
| 16 | That 's what they 've er put it to . |
| 17 | Aye , aye that 's what they 've got aye . |
| 18 | Well that 's what they 've bloody done near enough ! |
| 19 | He 's had about three pints but that 's what they 've told him to take . |
| 20 | I mean er , that 's what they 've got ta get used to . |
| 21 | That 's what , that 's what they 've said anyway . |
| 22 | Looking back into the past , people are eager for an explanation to be given to them by Thames and I do think that people do n't feel that 's what they 've had so far . |
| 23 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 24 | They let all the big companies go round digging holes in the road , and when people fall in and complain they say it 's all for their own good , and after a while they hope the people will revolt so they can give the police guns and thin out the population , and then they 'll have a police state — which is what they 've always wanted — and the rich will be able to live in peace . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You say this is what they 've got on the other side ? ’ |
| 26 | They 've actually gone from a full service back to this level because this is what they 've found is what people need and obviously this is surely what we should be able to do , erm I think that you know by providing the extra ten thousand my concern now is that we actually make sure that our offices are fully covered here . |
| 27 | suppose they have to match the pattern otherwise it does look quite silly which is what they 've done in here , they have n't matched the patterns that wall there is it , it ai n't joined |
| 28 | So all the stuff in their bags is clean , and all they 've got is what they 've got on |
| 29 | So he 's explained that this is what they 've approached the heavenly Jerusalem |