Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great many crocodile tears were shed , for , since Unionists had such an elevated view of the principle of leadership , they were unable to accept that they had just driven their own leader from office . |
| 2 | LOOP have ended two years of speculation by announcing that they have definitely split up . |
| 3 | Erm , the , I first tell people what to do because they all know their roles , and when you go in in the morning , and you 're just basically going round checking that they 've already done it all . |
| 4 | The agents dealing with the sale of the mill say that they 've already had inquiries about the site , for a number of uses . |
| 5 | Almost two-thirds of respondents receive their own copy of Newsline without fail , and two per cent say that they have never received it . |
| 6 | Many retired couples say that they have always shared the chores , but even a couple of the same sex sharing a home may have allocated each other certain jobs over the years , and need now to rethink who does what . |
| 7 | She looked up , startled to find that they had already arrived at the top floor , and were now walking down the corridor towards her apartment . |
| 8 | Now that I had this label — ‘ partially sighted ’ — and it was clear that my disability would become more acute , the teachers and girls at school found some semblance of the tolerance and understanding that they had previously lacked , and I slowly began to edge my way up the academic ladder . |
| 9 | Altogether 149 respondents reported that they had never undertaken or funded any HIV prevention work specifically aimed at gay or bisexual men . |
| 10 | Er , oh that particular one was one of erm I do n't know if they 've even got a lighting showroom in London now , er |
| 11 | I do n't know if they have even seen the baby ’ . |
| 12 | They are quite rightly upset and offended as they have usually made their own decisions and are going through with them . |
| 13 | Dicke and Peebles were preparing to look for this radiation when Penzias and Wilson heard about their work and realized that they had already found it . |
| 14 | Most of them are tilted in their orbits at an identical angle to Earth 's ( the exception being the inner and outer two planets ) , proving that they have all evolved together . |
| 15 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 16 | Initially , some progress appeared to have been made at the Jakarta meeting when Sihanouk and Hun Sen announced that they had finally agreed on a compromise formula on the issue of the SNC chair ( Sihanouk as chair , Hun Sen as vice-chair ) . |
| 17 | Progress was reported on the Israeli-Jordanian strand of negotiations , and on Oct. 28 the two sides announced that they had almost finalized a full agenda . |
| 18 | When they were asked afterwards , both Owen and North admitted that they had never imagined ‘ a victory march down the streets of Managua ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him . |
| 20 | The police argued that they had reasonably apprehended that a breach of the peace might occur if there had been more than two pickets at each entrance . |
| 21 | The Iranian authorities countered that they had repeatedly asked the Turkish government to present evidence for such claims . |
| 22 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 23 | In the case he quotes it was decided not to use alternative software , and other users should ensure that they have already exhausted the possibilities of improving the performance of their present software before they turn to other sources . |
| 24 | He says that they 've never caused an accident . |
| 25 | In fact , those who retired prematurely were less likely than those who waited until pension age to have said that they had ever thought seriously about early retirement ( 24 per cent compared with 44 per cent in the age-group 60 and over ) . |
| 26 | The ‘ pervasive desire ’ for a cappella solutions has been impelled by the musical excellences made possible by the choral institutions ( all tinged with a Protestant Englishness that most members of the forum probably imagine that they have never espoused ) . |
| 27 | The origins of the Caribbean Creole languages in slavery and plantation labour have ensured that they have never enjoyed high status in their own communities — notwithstanding various local attempts over the last century , mainly by intellectuals without government support , to raise their status . |
| 28 | All incoming graduate students ( including non-ESRC funded students ) are expected to participate unless they have already completed a Master 's or equivalent coursework elsewhere which would allow them to claim exemption from some or all requirements . |
| 29 | He found the service ‘ exceptionally good ’ , but added : ‘ You have to expect that when the cricket is on you do n't quite get the service you 'd normally expect because they 've all got a radio stuck in their pocket and the ear-piece stuck in their ear . ’ |
| 30 | The EIA has collected evidence from Senegal , the world 's largest bird exporting country , which shows that half the birds caught die before they have even reached the airport for export . |