Example sentences of "they have [verb] and [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The whole thing 's a farce , of course , they 've known and loathed each other for years , but the official version of this world-shaking meeting of titans has to take place in public where it can be duly recorded — and one of us must be there , and why should it be me on a Sunday morning when I 've got an angelic assistant ? |
| 2 | He could n't bear to wait another day , but then the letter finished in a scrawl , messy and rushed , because , I suppose , they had to go and capture some hill or bit of wood . |
| 3 | When they had scraped and gouged all the fat from the buffalo 's hide , Jacques Devraux showed the others how to rub in arsenical soap to repel the hordes of flies that would otherwise blow on it , and gradually the pungent reek of arsenic mingled with the other rank odours of human sweat and animal fat hanging in the saturated air . |
| 4 | And she suddenly turned back in the direction they had come and ran all the way , her wet shift slapping against her bare legs . |
| 5 | In the gallery Sergeant Juron stood by with a neuro-disruptor till they had cleaned and cradled those blades . |
| 6 | When asked about it , he replied in his much-imitated growl , ‘ Fifteen years I 've been coming up here and they have to go and put this lump of concrete in the middle of the road . ’ |
| 7 | no , they loose it so of course they have to go and buy another card . |
| 8 | Sooner or later they have to go and see these imposing mountains for themselves . |
| 9 | they have to beg and borrow all the local pools they can to keep going … and yet their success is helping swindon on to the top board of swimming … |