Example sentences of "they have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar to erm the accreditation that is er up at , with the help they 've had from er er interested er people there . |
| 2 | You see they 've got to be seen taking it out |
| 3 | The Labour Party showed more faith than anyone in the medicine of the pollsters and strategists , believing they has found in it the panacea for their 13-year malaise . |
| 4 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 5 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 6 | ( If they 'd existed in George Orwell 's day , when they were needed at least as much as now , we 'd have been spared all his sentimental fallacies about the perfect symmetry of family life . ) |
| 7 | ‘ Mother said they 'd met at university — ’ frowned Meredith . |
| 8 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 9 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 10 | Er they do after , yes th the , the nationalists had moved back across the south after nineteen forty five erm th th they 'd , they 'd retreated from the Japanese progressively after nineteen forty one and abandoned Shanghai and etcetera . |
| 11 | It would have been much more fun , do n't you think , if they 'd dressed as housewives . |
| 12 | Central South saw what they 'd achieved by 1991 , and now we 've been back to check on progress . |
| 13 | Tonight , Marc 's family said the verdict was the one they 'd hoped for . |
| 14 | Swindon Town say they 're disappointed after a Football League Tribunal valued their former player manager Glen Hoddle at only seventy five thousand pounds , when they 'd hoped for a million . |
| 15 | Frankly she 'd rather have dragged on comfortable old jeans and a sweatshirt , but she knew the children would expect the Aurora Blake they 'd seen on television , and she could n't disappoint them . |
| 16 | A glimmer of sun , the first they 'd seen for days in a chillier than average English summer , was gilding the meadow-sweet creamy-white in the tangled hedgerows . |
| 17 | Bluebird , which was rented by a group of nurses from the Waterloo Hospital , had been at the ready , and when the birth was imminent they 'd seen to it that the ambulance arrived promptly . |
| 18 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 19 | The other score — of damage to sons , property and livestock — was never calculated , but the injuries sustained were not considered excessive , and everyone agreed that it was one of the best hurling matches they 'd seen in several years . |
| 20 | But it could also mean that erm they were getti that it they had been successful in getting taxation from what they 'd done since the beginning of cos they felt they could go even further . |
| 21 | But there was a house on this repossession and it was sort of like just a sort of young couple and they 'd bought this house and it was like a two bedroom house and they 'd done up beautiful . |
| 22 | Once they 'd done with our , figures and our faces then we 'd got to look for our innards and so we had had to have inner cleanliness . |
| 23 | Or they might put her on a prison ship to Australia , as they 'd done with two girls from St Jude 's a couple of months ago , because — on those farms where the transported convicts worked all chained together — there was a shortage of women . |
| 24 | And Phil Oakey must have eaten his own fringe when he heard what they 'd done to his malevolently provincial classic ‘ Do n't You Want Me ’ . |
| 25 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 26 | Which was crazy , she reflected as she sat there , after all the things they 'd done to each other with their bodies , and the things yet to be done . |
| 27 | Mr Stokle says he felt like killing the culprits when he first saw what they 'd done to Mrs Leyshon . |
| 28 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 29 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |
| 30 | But the real the real glorious irony I think that cheers up erm psephologists like me , political analysists , is that in those May elections the Conservatives did dramatically well compared to what they 'd done in the general election . |