Example sentences of "what they 've [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because they realized that they needed it to invent something to fall in to what they 've already got . |
| 2 | can not have four week deferred period So what we 're saying is the risk there is too high , and there 's obviously a greater chance they 'll be claiming at a very early stage Okay , so the client has the choice , say , apart from the group fours , they could be four thirty and twenty-six and fifty-two , but again dove-tailing into what they 've already got . |
| 3 | repeating what they 've just said , to show that we 've understood them ; |
| 4 | You do n't notice the young mothers so readily , because they 're doing what they 've always done . |
| 5 | It 's doing what they 've always done for 50 years . |
| 6 | So most teachers are tending to ignore the national curriculum , and the tests and everything else , and teach what they 've always taught . |
| 7 | Just what they 've always wanted . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Well that 's what they 've bloody done near enough ! |
| 10 | Again depending on what they 've currently got cos again we 've got to dove-tail this plan into any current arrangements that they 've already got . |
| 11 | I think that 's what they 've really wanted all the way along . ’ |
| 12 | Then showing them the results of what they 've actually done . |
| 13 | What they 've actually done today is announced that they want to put er Calverton into review and at least it tells people at Calverton what the situation 's going to be for the future . |
| 14 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Okay , definition of disability , what they 've actually got to be , to be able to claim is unable to perform any part of their normal occupation . |