Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] they have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're in danger of every time you 're praising that person , they 're going to be sitting back waiting for the straight away , so you could n't , if you go up to somebody and they 've generally done a superb job and you ca n't fault him , and he knows he 's done a really good job , but he 's just sitting back waiting for you to way what , what you 've done wrong . |
| 2 | Their band is called Tribute to Nothing and they 've just released their first single . |
| 3 | You ca n't blame , you ca n't blame people for hanging about doing nothing if they 've twice as many staff as they should 've , and there paying them , I mean , that , that 's an administrative error , not a well it seems to be very rift in local government that there over staffed |
| 4 | ‘ This is like something that they 've never seen . |
| 5 | But then we made a sort of left turn with ‘ Tusk ’ , which dumbfounded a lot of people , not just the record company who obviously wanted the market , but a certain amount of the public who were expecting something that they 'd already labelled and were comfortable with . |
| 6 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 7 | But they had one in the corner you see and I could see the back leg was gone said to Margaret an said I might as well do something of that , you know , to do up it 's the only one that they had there that wanted really wanted repairing , so the feller said ooh I do n't know he said hang on , I 'll look in the book . |
| 8 | Implementation of the approved resolution on the Coastal Planning Committee , this is an interesting one that they 've totally forgotten , implementation of the approved resolution of a Coastal Planning Committee district on the twenty seventh of January that the highway implications which affect the development of the area marked W in the inset plan in fact is . |
| 9 | So if somebody says I 'll have a set of double glazing doors or something until they 've actually been installed he then gets paid . |
| 10 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 11 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |