Example sentences of "they have [verb] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police had hoped they 'd seen the last of the joyriding and the crowds who gather to see the stolen cars in action . |
| 2 | They , they 've seen all the sights , and they 've eaten the best of the food and er , erm , it 's time to go really , before you know they get , they outstay their welcome , and go past their sell-by date . |
| 3 | They had joined the 401st within the previous ten days and this was the only loss suffered by the 615th Squadron on this mission . |
| 4 | WHEN THE GODS WERE ASKED TO NAME AN AUSPICIOUS DAY FOR the sheep to go south to Aula for the six months of winter , they had said the twenty-second of Kārtik , November the sixth . |
| 5 | Since she had grown up , they had become the best of buddies . |
| 6 | They had reached the first of the amusement arcades : dimly-lit and claustrophobic . |
| 7 | During those early months , Kit Everard tried every evening to retire to his new quarters at Belmont and go to sleep ; he read the Bible , by the light of an oil lamp floating in a coconut shell , for they had used the last of their candles . |
| 8 | On the credit side ( if that was the word for it ) , they had discharged the last of the luckless Beador 's debts . |
| 9 | ‘ They have made the best of a bad situation . ’ |
| 10 | They have achieved the same in the way they work . |
| 11 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 12 | In the Hattie Jacques Cocktail Bar tonight , there are probably wry smiles on the faces of those who think they have seen the last of Leslie Bence rucking into the hurly-burly of football management . |
| 13 | The children watching us are also watching for the boats , and they have spotted the first of the fleet coming in . |
| 14 | They have benefited the rich at the expense of the poor , and Britain in 1990 is a much more unequal society than it was in 1979 . |
| 15 | The Horbys themselves say they have to make the most of what they have with Leah . |
| 16 | Mo has owned and completed several boats , including a Trapper 5000 , a well-known Starlight half-tonner , also called Sparkle and , more recently , a Sadler 34 aboard which they have cruised the Mediterranean for two years . |
| 17 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 18 | These processes are known as ‘ extrusion ’ and ‘ injection moulding ’ and for many purposes they have proved the cheapest of all manufacturing methods . |
| 19 | The first thirteen babies to claim them have won the first of their competitions . |