Example sentences of "what they have [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been bought by a northern brewery who could n't believe that they could get over a pound a pint for their best bitter despite what they 'd heard about Londoners . |
| 2 | So I w , I have n't heard what they 've said about holidays , but I would say they ought to say to people , if , if you know , if your allocated six weeks holiday , you take that six weeks holiday . |
| 3 | What they 've said about his music : There 's a degree of sentimentality in his songs . |
| 4 | But the really interesting bit about Rosemary Thorne 's appointment is not just that it 's newsworthy there 's only one other woman finance director in the country 's top 100 companies but what they 've done about her old job . |
| 5 | As he explained when I met him , he became so angry when he read what they had to say about the Princess that he wanted to ring the editors and complain , but realized that , rather than spending every day on the telephone , a simpler solution was to stop reading them . |
| 6 | Secondly there was the re-examination and reinterpretation of the history of philosophy , looking at philosophers through ‘ the prism of sex ’ to see what they had to say about women . |
| 7 | They said they had decided to stop counselling , because they felt they needed to think about and digest what they had talked about so far . |
| 8 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 9 | In drama a number of people agree to abstract from what they know of the ‘ hiding ’ function and to combine that knowledge with what they have understood about a particular ‘ hiding ’ context , say , King Charles and his followers hiding from the Roundheads ( hiders are therefore labelled Cavaliers , and the seekers Roundheads ) and to behave ‘ as if ’ only that function mattered . |
| 10 | It is not that people need to change or be ‘ cured ’ ; it is that they need to pursue their thoughts to their logical conclusion and from there make decisions on the basis of what they have discovered about themselves . |
| 11 | Unlike the damaged narcissists , with their compensations of spurious glory or morbidly melodramatized misery , the new pop workers want attention not for themselves , not for their make-believe world , but for what they have to say about the outside world . |
| 12 | Inevitably what they have to say about texts looks apolitical . |
| 13 | In section 2.6 we pick up these theories again and examine what they have to say about the shifts currently under way in British manufacturing and its geography . |
| 14 | Divide the weights of the fish they tell you about by three but more importantly listen to what they have to say about location . |