Example sentences of "have [verb] they in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the designer has integrated them in the text , and while this might be admirable for coffee table books or even guide books , it is quite wrong here as it makes them look cramped and mean . |
| 3 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
| 4 | They 'd met them in the pub a couple of weeks back . |
| 5 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 6 | They 'd used them in the war , gliders . |
| 7 | After Ricky 'd settled them in the drawing room with drinks , he went in search of Perdita . |
| 8 | He 'd left them in the Courtesy Cleaners : they 'd be ready in time for Easter Saturday . |
| 9 | He 'd left them in the refrigerator factory … ? |
| 10 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 11 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 12 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 13 | Old people in particular often ensure each night before they go to bed that their house is tidy and their last instructions are by their bed in case they should die in the night and someone will have to find them in the morning . |
| 14 | Even if he had thought that his parents were still there — which I found hard to believe — he could have visited them in the morning . |
| 15 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 16 | If they 'd come we 'd have had them in the bathroom . |
| 17 | have er , oh well I 'll just have to put them in the oven they 'll go brown under the oven wo n't they ? |
| 18 | They were heavy : I 'd have to wedge them in the middle so they did n't drag me down sideways . |
| 19 | ‘ But you 'll have to wow them in the aisles . |
| 20 | Oh , I 'll have to ring them in the morning . |
| 21 | No , mum said if they 'd have come erm , she 'd have put them in the bathroom . |
| 22 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 23 | No one would have constructed them in the form they have if he had not known that at all costs he must , when it comes to experimental predictions , obtain those same results which the statistically interpreted Schrödinger equation seems to produce so economically and naturally . |
| 24 | The Jacobite sympathies of the family might well have prejudiced them in the eyes of the early Georges , but George III , especially after falling out with Coutts , had an affectionate and very special relationship with Drummonds . |
| 25 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
| 26 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |
| 27 | ‘ Indeed you would n't find better anywhere , ’ said Mrs Bennet who had joined them in the cellar with her daughter . |
| 28 | Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons . |
| 29 | At once , he could see that it was the same monstrous nightmare that had attacked them in the basement . |
| 30 | Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government . |