Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish they 'd got a bigger one . |
| 2 | In the late seventies , the authorities allowed many refugees to stay , but now they 've adopted a tougher policy . |
| 3 | They 've got a better lock . |
| 4 | ah , ah they 've got a better crowd for that day ai n't they dad ? |
| 5 | ah , ah they 've got a better crowd for that day ai n't they dad ? |
| 6 | But they had received a further ‘ hammer blow ’ with a demand yesterday ‘ for thousands of pounds from the Inland Revenue for taxation which they had been told by Barlow Clowes had been deducted at source . |
| 7 | Up to 50 per cent of people with heart disease or cancer could probably have prevented or delayed the onset of their illness if they had eaten a better diet or stopped smoking . |
| 8 | By the time England won another Test they had played a further thirty , plus two that were rain-restricted and one washed out altogether . |
| 9 | He worried persistently about the poverty of his social life and bitterly complained : By June 1949 they had reached a further stage in their relationship . |
| 10 | Through their own efforts they have created a happier , healthier environment for their children . |
| 11 | They have enjoyed a higher level of formal education than their older colleagues , some of them possessing degrees in chemistry or biology from universities or polytechnics . |
| 12 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 13 | Whereas it seems unlikely that these concerns have penetrated school syllabuses , it is possible , given the much greater autonomy of institutions of higher education , that they have had a greater influence on higher education syllabuses . |