Example sentences of "they have [verb] [that] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 So I explained to him and he was very nice , er but one of the things that they 'd said that they would do , is get all the news broadcasters er to sign consent forms
2 They audience was ready for a great star because they 'd heard that he was .
3 And they 'd reported that it was clear and satisfactory .
4 ( If only they 'd known that my companion was a convicted killer of rubber plants in an Indian restaurant ) .
5 The ship was invited to stop , er did n't do so , er and warning shots were fired , but subsequently , erm Royal Marines went aboard , er took charge of the ship , checked it over , er and er once they 'd established that there was no erm embargoed cargo , it was able to proceed .
6 I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight .
7 They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living .
8 And what you might need to start thinking about as well is how could you illustrate some of these , already around you in the room , going up , work from year nine where they have started writing that as a complaint to god , moaning about Hurricane Andrew , about earthquakes and floods and so on and they 've decided that they 're going to illustrate the work they 're doing with these paper cuttings of disasters and problems in the world , there 's one up here about a gorilla that 's been taken from the wild and is in captivity in London Zoo and they said that they think it 's wrong .
9 But , they 've decided that they 're pleased with what Gerald 's done
10 well , erm tis n't , she 's not , she wants the W R A F and nothing else and Sue said you ca n't be like that , you know , and er , so they 've decided that she 's got ta carry on with this Saturday job because she wo n't be able to go on the dole look , straight away will she ?
11 Independent advice er comes from major brokers , the banks and building societies have come out of independent advice pretty well , because they 've decided that it 's expensive and a hassle , cos we 're regulated all the time and of course it makes , we 've , we 've got to analyze the products on the market , so we 've got to pay people to do that .
12 They 've decided that you need that number of weeks holiday , then that 's what you should be taking .
13 Nobody else will get any unless they , they 've demonstrated that they 've met the partnership criteria .
14 But now now they 've realized that they need more than one receptionist to cover the early hours and later hours .
15 Yeah well I me and Margaret should be in the hall but I think they 've assumed that there will be less
16 close , I can assure you Chairman recognise the time , I can assure you Chairman that our social workers when doing assessments will not , because I 've had this from them , at grass roots level in a branch local party meeting , that our social workers will not indicate to those people who they 've assessed that there are vacancies in those homes .
17 Erm probates Or rather procedure on death because probate is proving a will , in the Latin if there 's no will it 's letters of administration which is a similar procedure , except that the will speaks from death and therefore your appointment of the executors is effective from death and therefore your appointment of executors is effective from death , they can do certain things even before they 've proven the will Which administrators ca n't do cos they do n't have the power until they 've proved that they 're the people entitled .
18 Why ca n't they dip into modules because once they 've learned that they then come to us and we say right you 're at the stage where you can do the certificate in Industrial Editing sit our exam
19 So they 've learnt that they ca n't implement land reform unless they 've got the support of the popular masses and it 's got to come from them cos ultimately they , they 're pursuing land reform in order to get the peasant support and if that 's not what they want there 's no point in just erm imposing it on them .
20 She thought briefly of AIDS and added : ‘ For one thing , they 've learnt that it is n't very wise … but not because it 's immoral , Johnny .
21 ‘ This woman 's a similar type to his English wife , and they 've read that they 've split up acrimoniously .
22 Do they need to do the they 've proposed that they to bypass erm if we 're doing the Caernarvon bypass .
23 It means that the other people have to give more that 's why some of the churches , I think they 've found that their er , requests for their er er their er contributions , have gone up enormously !
24 Not only have they suffered the nightmares of the civil war , but as each day has passed , they 've known that their daughter has moved a stage closer to death .
25 Megaw LJ said that each of the parties desired to avoid the possibility that the other might challenge the opinion of the valuer because the parties had stipulated that the auditors should act as experts , and by doing so they had showed that they wanted a measure of certainty , accepting the risk , which applied either way , that the expert might err .
26 They had to see that they were provided with milk and butter and eggs and er venison and the rabbits and things for their food .
27 They had insisted that their youth organisations should be organised on a semi-military basis , and other parties had followed suit .
28 They had realized that we were saying that lesbian and gay sexual relationships were as good as heterosexual relationships : they had realized the panic that this issue could generate .
29 Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk .
30 All the inhabitants of La Valdieu turned out to be English and when they had explained that they had all independently ended up at the farm without having had any conscious intention of doing so , my sceptical antennae started twitching .
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