Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they dominated the countryside , but intensive farming led to many being ripped up and the sheer cost of maintaining them has seen many fall into neglect . |
| 2 | Ever since the age of 13 I 've been hoping my spots would go away — but constant picking at them has left some scars . ’ |
| 3 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |
| 4 | Yeah , they played well the year before they held their own see they 've got all the |
| 5 | And they were not having anybody in the mine , with a watch , who could let people know exactly what the time was , and in other words , create a situation where the men might go home before they 'd completed this particular task . |
| 6 | Now the authority of the community was carried by the Sanhedrin they brought him to what is what they accepted as a trial erm they 'd assessed that something was going against their structures , and as I 've already said religious life was the most important thing he 'd broken it seems a religious law and the council the court the gathering together of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin were going to in a serious sort of way check this out , check this accusation out . |
| 7 | Once they 'd realized this , the villagers came to her often with their problems . |
| 8 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 9 | They 'd seen each other fairly regularly since , but more and more competitively as time went on . |
| 10 | They 'd seen each other every day since then ; sometimes , because of rehearsals and because Gesner had so much work to do , it was only for a drink at the Franz Joseph . |
| 11 | There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant . |
| 12 | A lip turned up at the towel in her hair , as if he was remembering that first time they 'd seen each other , but the quirk of that lip was cruel . |
| 13 | ‘ If they 'd done that , they would have won the Championship . ’ |
| 14 | There was one in erm here where they 'd done that . |
| 15 | Mrs Blakey kept on asking them what they 'd done that day . |
| 16 | people this year , if they 'd done all their Christmas shopping mail order . |
| 17 | And I did n't know they 'd done any extra days . |
| 18 | They 'd done some lines at the office . |
| 19 | I had the nasty feeling they 'd done this before . |
| 20 | No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind . |
| 21 | No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind . |
| 22 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 23 | They 'd followed that up by mounting a major surveillance job in London without clearing it with us or the Co-ordinator or anybody . |
| 24 | They 'd followed some light in the sky . |
| 25 | Oh I thought they 'd stopped all these . |
| 26 | They 'd gone all the way and still she did n't feel any of the things one was supposed to feel — elated , contented , together . |
| 27 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 28 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 29 | There was n't any new town or anything and er they 'd built those er Council houses in the front in and he also erm , he said would I like a nice new house , to have plenty of hot water for the boys for bathing and everything , so I moved into a four bedroom and er I was there , er brought my family up there for , till er , unfortunately my mother came to live with me and unfortunately erm I had to go away erm because I was n't very well on a holiday and I was called back cos she was found dead on the toilet my poor mother and er after that erm I came back and erm , in the middle of the week from holiday , oh bother it will it be okay ? |
| 30 | Ruth and Naomi , they 'd lost all their possessions and the most prominent member of the family was a man called Boaz |