Example sentences of "have [verb] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 2 | Commons authorities had thought they had rid the building of all asbestos — used extensively in the 1920s and 30s — during a big clean-up operation 10 years ago . |
| 3 | NASA scientists had thought they 'd solved the technical problems which have dogged the Space Agency . |
| 4 | In order to understand what they had found they needed to classify the fossil organisms into particular kinds , more or less similar , to impose an order on what would otherwise have been a vast and chaotic mass of different and apparently unrelated relics . |
| 5 | Police had hoped they 'd seen the last of the joyriding and the crowds who gather to see the stolen cars in action . |