Example sentences of "have [verb] they [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But they have gone through an experience of doubt which has purged them forever of the desire to doubt without finding an answer .
2 History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country .
3 ‘ The guide , who has driven them there in a minibus , naturally counts heads before he starts on the return journey .
4 Money has driven them deeper into the planet , money has brought them down in the world …
5 Until recently they were thought to be primitive primates but now science has put them firmly among the insectivores .
6 For example , monies could be restricted because the governing body has put them aside for a specific purpose , such as for renewal of a fleet of cars .
7 The copycat kings of the world will apply the formula which has benefitted them immensely in the everyday world of trade and commerce to rugby .
8 ‘ Fate has thrown them together in a way which could have led to conflict , resentment and bitterness .
9 You do n't have to gather them together in a group in order for that to be a successful piece of creative activity . ’
10 You must have disturbed them right in the act . "
11 Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet
12 We stared in stunned shock , realising that the pilot must have made one last superhuman effort not to come down right on our heads , but then just could n't manage those last few yards which would have brought them safely onto the runway .
13 You may think they were tainted , but we know they were tested at the priory and I doubt the Lady Eleanor would have taken them solely on the Prince 's word . ’
14 By the time the tins had fallen that far , the wind and slipstream would have blown them all over the sky .
15 I 've gathered them slowly over the years , because they 're cruelly expensive .
16 Previously they had lacked an identity , but the training period had welded them together into a cohesive fighting force with an intense pride in themselves and their unit .
17 Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally .
18 He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half .
19 no here they are , I know I 've seen them somewhere on the window sill
20 However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him .
21 Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun .
22 Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave .
23 When you 've got them away from the mains , what d' ya do with them ?
24 ‘ I 've got them halfway down the corridor , and the door opens behind us .
25 No , but they 've had 'em all over the country
26 Esther hinted that it was the grim circumstances of their childhood that had drawn them together with a love that dared not speak its name .
27 ‘ What a disgusting thing to do , ’ she said aloud , as she walked through the silent house , picking up two items of Nick 's clothing from where he had flung them almost into the utility room .
28 He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio .
29 Could you still touch them if you 've pulled them away from the mains and everything ?
30 What had happened was that , having marched in straight lines over open flat ground for a while , their paths had taken them close to a pebble .
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