Example sentences of "[prep] they have [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are distributed along the shorelines in innumerable enclaves ( sensu Crisp , 1 978 ) * many of which must have been isolated for long enough ( since the sea level rose to its present height after the retreat of the last ice sheet ) for them to have evolved local forms to suit the particular selective influences of their habitats . |
| 2 | At the end of that time , each one of them had experienced unpleasant symptoms ; some became hostile and argumentative ; some had panic attacks and nightmares ; all of them found their attention span had grown shorter and they were finding it more difficult to remember things . |
| 3 | A couple of them had produced flaming torches from nowhere and were brandishing them with all the zeal of a party of drunken Transylvanian peasants storming Castle Frankenstein during an electrical storm . |
| 4 | Some of them had abandoned front rooms and virtually none opened front windows . |
| 5 | Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment . |
| 6 | Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet . |
| 7 | One of them had had white hair or , Matthew had remarked , it might have been a wig . |
| 8 | Many of them have done excellent work in the past . |
| 9 | Almost half of them have experience of the joys of a threesome , while more of them have seen live sex shows than men in other categories . |
| 10 | As you know , the two of them have become good friends , and are going on a long holiday together . |
| 11 | Both of them have made important progress under the British Presidency which ends on December 31 . |
| 12 | This alteration was observed in the patient 's mother and maternal grandmother ( lanes 5 and 1 , respectively ) , who are obligate carriers as both of them have had affected sons . |
| 13 | By the same token , I can not help wondering what will be the result of a survey among half the 2,500 members of the British Psychological Society to establish how many of them have had sexual relations with their clients . |
| 14 | Some of them have posited underlying mechanisms of language change to account for this ; some have been more interested in relating it to social realities , treating language as a sort of cultural key rather than as a self-contained system with its own particular dynamic ; others have seen it as their main task to suggest linguistic reforms that will modify or eliminate offensive usages . |
| 15 | Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ? |
| 16 | lives or is that talking about they 've approached straight line that 's already there in heaven , in other words , the , the , you know that the understanding which I have it from this bible is er that seems to be suggesting that er that 's talking about apos the apostles ' lives before they died , our spiritual lives with brightest ones who have at that er point been made perfect by being prepared to go where they 're going |