Example sentences of "[noun] they have [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any artist thinking they have made it when they sign a recording contract is totally wrong , ’ warns Gatfield . |
| 2 | And er the bedroom they 've given me I can see |
| 3 | As a result they had taken him to the police , and then Sommerville had been questioned . |
| 4 | On one of his recent trips they had frightened him so much that he dropped his food and had to watch helplessly while they devoured every last scrap of it . |
| 5 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |
| 6 | This is the third lot of antibiotics they 've given me |
| 7 | Instead one has delicatessens which are more brightly lit and infinitely more hygienic than the small corner shops I have known , but with their fridges and freezers and extraction fans they have tamed their wares and robbed them of their pungency . |
| 8 | Lebna Dengel proved friendly to the Portuguese , although dissatisfied with the presents they had brought him and exasperated by their quarrels among themselves . |
| 9 | With just 20 per cent of Sunday 's vote they have registered their lowest score in any general election since Mr Mitterrand founded the party 22 years ago . |
| 10 | I am grateful to my colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Britain for the help and opportunities they have given me in the preparation of this book . |
| 11 | Well , well they 've just sold a player to Leicester for eighty five thousand and they , they bought a fella from Port Vale on a free transfer , well he 's a Richard they 've bought him back again , only with a , all due respect but er now he 's got he 's playing very well with Leicester now , and he 's , he 's scored two goals and made one the other Saturday , and , and everyone , every match since he 's been there every time he 's played . |
| 12 | On 27 July 1991 , in South Korea , six academics belonging to the Seoul Social Science Institute were arrested because of articles and books they had published which allegedly discussed and advocated a socialist revolution . |
| 13 | It 's , it 's a bit like in Northern Ireland where you 've got your the religious erm influence they 've got somebody like Ian Paisley the strength of that man and his group |
| 14 | Ee , what a mess they 've left you , Ann . |
| 15 | That 's another fine mess they 've got themselves into . |
| 16 | Since the Mexican panic they have made themselves less vulnerable through a variety of stratagems . |
| 17 | Sampras will finish the year in 81st place , Courier a more respectable 24th , but in doubles they have eclipsed their more renowned contemporaries and deserved to qualify for the Masters when Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were forced to withdraw at the last minute . |
| 18 | But in doubles they have eclipsed their renowned contemporaries . |
| 19 | The police , most of whom I knew , because of the great help they had given us when we had been burgled a couple of years earlier , said no , they did n't have the key , and in any case it was the council who must be approached . |
| 20 | Half an hour later , I was in a forest eating the bread they had given me . |
| 21 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 22 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |
| 23 | For an hour and a half they had kept him standing . |
| 24 | For a couple of years on the run they 've lost their dole cheque round about Christmas . |
| 25 | It 's a pity they 've got nothing else better to do . |
| 26 | ‘ Now , despite inflation and the many extra duties they have entrusted us with , they insist on a budget of £20.2m . |
| 27 | So long as there was no hunt for a missing girl they had felt themselves reasonably safe . |
| 28 | The tacksmen , he told Johnson , were emigrating , unable to comply with the exorbitant rents demanded by the lairds and deluded by the dreams of wealth they had promised their own tenants . |
| 29 | Only unlike nature they 'd got it wrong . |
| 30 | I mean at the moment they 've got it short , but they have it long here and long at the back and then everywhere else short , short back and sides |