Example sentences of "[verb] they have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All my investigators who want them have got personal alarms of their own . |
| 2 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 3 | ‘ We keep meeting these people who travel down to Cornwall and say they 've surfed big breaks , but it 's all false . |
| 4 | They in turn say they 've had tremendous support from hospital staff and the people of Cheltenham . |
| 5 | But police here say they 've had growing problems in regulating the tide and have even ordered groups of refugees to return to the border post to allow time to clear bottlenecks further down the five hundred mile route to the Red Sea port of Aqaba . |
| 6 | They are young and middle-aged men , many with wives and children in Turkey , who say they have suffered repeated imprisonments , police beatings and torture because of their sympathies for communist and Kurdish independence groups . |
| 7 | Officials say they have identified new sources of timber that would not conflict with protecting the owl , but environmentalists are concerned that the government has called for a much smaller reduction in the timber " harvest " than the Thomas report . |
| 8 | POLICE say they have found strong evidence linking a series of fires in Gwynedd at the weekend with the Meibion Glyndwr arson campaign . |
| 9 | Newton Aycliffe police investigating an incident when a stolen car was smashed into a policeman 's house last week say they have had good response from their appeal for witnesses and are waiting for forensic test results . |
| 10 | Students are reminded that their eventual employers will expect them to have made good use of their time at university . |
| 11 | The inquest heard doctors believed they had followed usual procedures . |
| 12 | During a five-day smog in the Ruhr area of West Germany in January 1985 the authorities believed they had achieved overall emission reductions of about 30 per cent , including 14 per cent of sulphur dioxide from power stations and 40–50 per cent of oxides of nitrogen from traffic ( Lubkert , 1989 ) . |
| 13 | A spokesman for thamesdown Borough Council admitted there is a backlog in housing benefit claims , but says they 've introduced new measures to clear it . |
| 14 | She says they 've got good facilites and can cater for children up to 16 . |
| 15 | Keep the cheapskates parade they 've got inflatable sheep and all sorts for set up here oh it 's still number one then |
| 16 | Out of the three statements from fellow travellors read out to the coroner , non said they 'd had previous warnings from either the travel company or the foreign office that the region they were in had experienced previous Muslim fundamentalist acts of terrorism against visitors . |
| 17 | It was over a week since the children had been removed , and both police and the Social Work Department had said they had made independent investigations which had led to their decision to take such drastic action . |
| 18 | It 's a deficiency that they have to go back to another culture , but we hope they 've got sufficient strength from being here to get through that . |
| 19 | I actually , I got a car magazine today er and Saab have actually built a car , and you know they 've got catalytic converters now ? |
| 20 | Once again it brings me in to the point where er double glazers have to go and measure up then do their , I know they 've got lovely lap tops I 've seen them now with their lap top comp their little samples there special catches here . |
| 21 | Despite the problems in local government , the municipal elections and the general elections that preceded them have provided legitimate government both locally and nationally . |
| 22 | Despite all these humiliations and the failure of the dream , the migrants , once they return home , find they have acquired considerable prestige . |
| 23 | Bad start , good run at the moment though I do n't think they 've found top form . |
| 24 | Both authorities claim they have suffered unfair treatment when their spending needs have been assessed . |
| 25 | On the other hand , we had learnt to recognise many of the chimps as individuals , and felt they had become firm friends . |
| 26 | Most of the parties saw their MPs and felt they had received positive support for the objectives of the Lobby . |
| 27 | But having a woman on the wing makes them realise they have hurt real people , they see me as a real person |
| 28 | Gossip in Mother Russell 's had it that they 'd made their fortune by some prize , for there were one or two men in Harry Pascoe 's crew who thought they had seen strange goings on close inshore under the Gribbin the previous October ; but these would not be drawn further , and although it was never put into so many words , people came to accept that the source of Harry Pascoe 's wealth was not a safe subject for public discussion . |
| 29 | I accept of course that the police officers investigating on behalf of the Hampshire Constabulary , whose rank I do not know , and the Principal Crown Prosecutor thought they had seized sufficient documents or might acquire others independently . |
| 30 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |