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contraction they have
Usage examples of "they've".
Somebody has to win, she would say, I've seen them on the telly, grinning brickies, office workers in syndicates, housewives, don't tell me that they've all been struck by lightning ten times.
They've filled several bags and gotten the lighter shit stacked off back enough to create a narrow route almost all the way to the Pump Room, around which Room hangs a strange sweet stale burny smell that none of them can place.
I can whelp puppies and medicate geriatric animals and remove stitches from bitches after they've had Caesarian sections, I think I can tend to a middle-aged man who thinks he's James Bond without going all to pieces.
They've had a try and she's carryin' a hairn, so she should be able to think for herself.
This will be more excitement than they've seen since all those rubbers washed up on the beach at Chappaquiddick Island.
They've got a long-term contract with RKO and the cheapie studios on Gower.
They've choreographed everything so Haskell comes out of it looking like a hero.
And knowin' there's a lot of hard licks in life, and no matter how much you try to do for people they'll do you if they get a chance, and say mean things about you--for there ain't nobody what escapes the havin' of misjudgin' things said if they've got a mind of their own and the will to do their way--we thought we would like to come out here and tell you before you was dead that we sure do love you and we thank you hearty for comin' back.
This is not a personal criticism of those who say they've been abducted or of those who interrogate them.
They've hung on to the secrets of the Camarilla and adjudicated the balance of power almost since the beginning.
No, Rogeryou can bet your last set of Aertex that the entire personnel of the ungodly is at this moment engaged in whiffling through every telephone number in the book as they've never whiffled before.
They've kept the cameras clicking, kept those faxes humming, swapped that email, run those photocopiers on overtime, licked envelopes and spent small fortunes on airfare and long distance.
They've had rushed decontaminations, or no decon, or maybe not even a health check.
They've also forgotten how they built a city in the Anarchies, and the temples themselves.
And there they've been ever since, dwindling in number, periodically under siege by the other tribes, who suspect they had something to do with closing the Anarchies.