Example sentences of "[prep] they have [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monks ' cells , just visible through the windows of the women 's dormitories , lay 500 yards away , far enough for them to have required a telescope and searchlights if disturbance had been on their minds . |
| 2 | The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers . |
| 3 | The low price of sugar before 1690 , the dangers of war after 1690 , the Company 's inadequate provision for depreciation , and the planters ' unwillingness to pay their debts , might between them have ruined the Company in any case , but the end of the monopoly must have contributed something to the collapse . |
| 4 | Well , the two of them had made no bones about what they thought of her . |
| 5 | Indeed most of them had made a kind of negative progress . |
| 6 | Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months , marvelling at his gallant spirit and his unfailing good temper . |
| 7 | Neither of them had heard the door open , but suddenly Tom was there , and it was clear that he had heard Faye 's last words . |
| 8 | On Sunday all of them had attended a cousin 's wedding . |
| 9 | Indeed , if any one of them had killed a cat , even in these special circumstances , he would have been put to death for it . |
| 10 | If any of them had displayed a leaning towards the stage , Dinah would no doubt have encouraged it ; but they had neither the presence nor the voice , nor , she would think despairingly , looking round them all , the appearance ; every one was Paul over again . |
| 11 | During the month after her father 's death each of them had discovered the need to explore hitherto suppressed areas of feeling and half-knowledge that stood between them and a clearer knowledge of the selves they were now fully determined to offer to each other . |
| 12 | In the Septizonium , an ancient Roman temple at the south-east corner of the Palatine , which had long since been annexed for other uses , safe from outside interference and imperial troops , for it was still possible for emperors to attempt to interfere with elections , the election commenced after each cardinal had celebrated mass and all of them had exchanged the kiss of peace . |
| 13 | The men used matches to see around , one of them had lit a straw bail to get more light . |
| 14 | Fortunately most of them had seen the programme and were committed admirers of Hannah . |
| 15 | Michael Willis , the ancient Hawaiians , Victor Hugo , had all been affected by wave-fever ; all of them had abjured the text . |
| 16 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 17 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |
| 18 | He had barred Anne from the house after he had found out that the pair of them had spent an hour in the local pub after shopping one evening . |
| 19 | Neither of them had spoken a word since leaving London . |
| 20 | From the early 1870s discussion of provision for the poor was influenced by the new facts that some of them had deserved the vote and that the economy faced certain difficulties . |
| 21 | Some of them had swum the border rivers , the Oder or the Neisse , despite the knowledge that more than a dozen had drowned . |
| 22 | On her return from Whitehaven she had surprised herself by feeling compelled to go to the room where the four of them had enjoyed the dinner . |
| 23 | In the morning he looked hollow-eyed , but he 'd gone off , with dogged cheerfulness , to take prayers at Snead Hall , a sad , second-rate little girls ' public school , where he was Chaplain , and the rest of them had caught the bus . |
| 24 | They had tried out various ‘ templates ’ — all of them embellishments on what already existed — but none of them had shown the kind of delicacy required . |
| 25 | Senior Household officials like the Treasurer of the Chamber , the Chamberlain , the Vice Chamberlain , the Captain of the Guard , the Controller of the Household , and the Treasurer of the Household evidently held their posts under the Tudors without a patent and at the pleasure of the monarch , although by the reign of Charles I many of them had acquired a life interest . |
| 26 | But the two of them had had a falling-out on the night of the capitalization party . |
| 27 | My previous attempts at getting rid of them had had the effect of reactivating them . |
| 28 | Nearly two months had passed since the last crisis in their relationship — the night they had seen Bicycle Thieves — and still neither of them had had the courage to face its implications . |
| 29 | Getting no satisfaction from that quarter a few of them had taken a problem to a union meeting . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater . |