Example sentences of "they have [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought they 'd hung me up by my arms , ’ he began , and then he stopped short , remembering that the Punishment Squad could not do that to a crippled man with one arm . |
| 2 | And after that we shipped — me and another feller , an Irish feller , a Belfast man — we shipped in an owd schooner called the Mount Blairie : it was an old thing that had been ashore at — in a little shipyard ; and they 'd done her up during the winter to give them men a job . |
| 3 | Promotion at Maidstone was never to be his ; instead they 'd sent him back to Ramsgate , scene of his early success in capturing the notorious smuggler Rum-Bubber Bill . |
| 4 | They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned . |
| 5 | Marian I know was Marian Anderson , the black singer , she sang on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday morning in 1939 , it was freezing , they 'd locked her out of the concert hall she had booked . |
| 6 | They 'd piled him in with the dead , and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching . |
| 7 | that wax , and erm , I mean they were , they 'd brought them in before Christmas so that they could sell 'em |
| 8 | Then , deciding she was no political , just another stroppy trucker , they 'd handed her over to the locals , which was a big relief . |
| 9 | And , they 'd handed it over to us and then obviously they wanted it back , but then |
| 10 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |
| 11 | They 'd cleaned it up since then and taken the soot out . |
| 12 | Then on , they 'd got it on from time to happy time , eaten together every week , seen movies , theatre , films , drag , done disco , reggae , boogie … |
| 13 | Internal finishing is laudably neat and clean , all sanded smooth and completely glue-free , and I only wish they 'd finished it off by putting the label on straight ! |
| 14 | What I was wondering was when you said that the dock stopped the money for payment for damages , they 'd paid it back to you . |
| 15 | For the birds , otherwise what will they have to see them through till spring ? |
| 16 | Do they have to hack them about like that ? ’ |
| 17 | Aye , she says what they 're getting Sheila , she said I 've just cut me hours down they , they were working thirty nine and they 've cut me down to thirty two , just like part-time thing , like you know |
| 18 | You 're hopeless at keeping a secret for you make it so obvious that people are sure to keep probing until they 've winkled it out of you . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've invited you down to their warehouse , they want to take some photos . ’ |
| 20 | Some now have breeze-block houses with zinc roofs , instead of the mud huts they started with — and they 've funded them out of their own savings . |
| 21 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 22 | You 've still got the problem of addressing praise , because quite often you 've only , if you 've given somebody a specific task then it 's easy to praise or not to praise in that situation , but if they 've just come in , done their job and gone home , you know , just sat on a checkout for four hours , right it 's my time to leave , then , if they 've done nothing out of the blue , extraordinary , so they do n't do anything wrong , or , you know . |
| 23 | they 've lined one up at each end of the field so it , it looks like they 're saying , well , you know that 's a parcel of land . |
| 24 | They get to the stage where they 've clogged themselves up with the the by-products , so part of making a battery is trying to design it so it does n't clog itself up . |
| 25 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 26 | So er they 've put me out to grass so to speak . |
| 27 | ‘ They 've put me back on the Zikr case . ’ |
| 28 | No , they 've put them down in third division now . |
| 29 | They might think they 're getting away with it , a lot of people who , who , I mean being unemployed is n't , you tend , people tend to feel devalued and so if they can think oh , they 've put one over on that , on the er , benefit office , then they 'll go and brag down the pub about it . |
| 30 | They 've got him down at the station for questioning . |