Example sentences of "have [verb] they [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 2 | Trading in these securities has been sparse since the crash in October 1987 , and the recent withdrawals of marketmakers such as Warburg Securities , UBS Phillips & Drew and County NatWest from dealing in the securities of many smaller companies has left them without the mandatory two marketmakers for inclusion in the SEAQ system of continuously updated two-way prices . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 4 | For a new act , I would have to pitch them at the right venue for their type of music . |
| 5 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 6 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 7 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 8 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 9 | Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell [ q.v. ] may also have used them in the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 11 | It is not envisaged that we would have to use them for the offshore industry , but the provisions provide a safety net . |
| 12 | We shall often have to invoke them in the following chapters , though we shall rely all we can on originals . |
| 13 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 14 | That would have taken them past the vital February sailing time along what Whitehall claims is an organised escape route . |
| 15 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 16 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 17 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 18 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 19 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 20 | Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically . |
| 21 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 22 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 23 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 24 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 25 | They had bought them in the local sex shop in the hope of saving the money they would normally spend on E. So what were they like ? |
| 26 | The teacher had helped them with the capital letter to begin the sentence and the full stop at the end . |
| 27 | He was still shuffling videos on the shelves as if having suddenly noticed that someone — herself , probably — had replaced them in the wrong order . |
| 28 | In the mid-1950s he had introduced them to the Naval College in Rhode Island . |
| 29 | Mrs Fletcher had brought them round the previous night . |
| 30 | Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road . |