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 . |