Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 2 | Ronnie Sales has helped to brighten up the lives of residents living on the Cosy Estate in Sunderland — in more ways than one ! |
| 3 | English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape . |
| 4 | Mr Gillespie wrote back accepting the contents of the letter but since his 65th birthday he has refused to hand over the shares . |
| 5 | When he 'd managed to count down the numbers and identify the exact address that she 'd named , he felt something go cold inside him . |
| 6 | She , Claudia , would have to try to pick up the pieces , and that would n't be easy . |
| 7 | Ah they would have had to wash up the plates and the knives and forks . |
| 8 | It 's a work that must have seemed to sum up the traumas of the war years and their aftermath for you ? |
| 9 | The Germans had intended blowing up the cellars of Champagne before retreating , but on 28 August 1944 they were caught napping as General Patton and his 3rd Army swept into Épernay . |
| 10 | This had to be her mother 's bed , she surmised , and the doctor had forgotten to draw back the curtains . |
| 11 | It was growing dark and she had to squint to make out the details of the room . |
| 12 | However , by the end of May , the Russian government had decided to pull out the troops . |
| 13 | The USA had moved to send out the invitations only after the Israelis and the Arabs had failed to agree on a time and venue . |
| 14 | But you 've got to check out the odds . |
| 15 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 16 | The finance divisional manager , Stephen Hughes , said 246 tenants had agreed to pay off the arrears in instalments , and it was hoped more would follow suit . |
| 17 | Now that the sun had come out , many of the spectators had stayed to see how the celebrities would perform after the fireworks of the professionals . |
| 18 | From time to time the main Party had to intervene to help out the youngsters or to curb their youthful enthusiasms . |
| 19 | ’ Werewolf nodded towards the restaurant 's kitchens from where Gino had appeared zipping up the flies on a new pair of jeans . |
| 20 | Before she had finished hanging out the clothes , there was a glorious double rainbow across the sky . |
| 21 | By the end of the session the groups had started to map out the areas for questions to be used with the visitors . |
| 22 | Erm Joyce I think had had tried to drop out the things that were only relevant to individual officers out . |
| 23 | required from that of the classical temple ( pages 56–63 ) , which had evolved to house not the worshippers , but a representation of the deity . |
| 24 | I take it you 've managed to staighten out the wrinkles in your own affairs , then ? ’ |
| 25 | How they 've managed to pick up the pieces , when the most fundamental element of their relationship — trust — may have been shattered forever . |
| 26 | In four days of meetings they had managed to decide only the names of the principal members of the embassy . |
| 27 | She also suggested that Mr. Sedley , in his argument on behalf of the Bar Council , had failed to explain how the Inns could discipline someone , for example by reprimand or fine , without disbarring them . |
| 28 | Some work had been done there by 1372 , but in 1375 inquiry was made into allegations that Lewyn had received money for the work but had failed to carry out the repairs . |
| 29 | Quite simply , the earlier Regulations had failed to meet adequately the needs of liberal adult education in rural areas . |
| 30 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |