Example sentences of "they have [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd apparently already decided to loan me to Carlisle Flint . |
| 2 | She and her husband , Stephen , feel they 've only just begun to grieve , one we barn , where they 'd taken the girls in January last year . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's actually been available to the public for quite a while , but they 've only just started to do a big push on it , ’ explains Robert . |
| 4 | They 've never yet had to use it . |
| 5 | After nearly seven hours deliberation they 've so far failed to reach a unanimous verdict . |
| 6 | It was n't till years later that I realised they had n't even remembered to ask if f was a lesbian . |
| 7 | He waved a disdainful hand at her holstered gun , which they had n't even bothered to remove . |
| 8 | Revealing details of Iraq 's latest assurances delivered on March 20 , Rolf Ekeus , head of the joint UN and International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) special commission on Iraq , told a press conference in New York the same day that his commission was " satisfied there are undertakings that the Iraqis are willing to go along with the destruction [ of ] capabilities " which they had not previously agreed to destroy . |
| 9 | He said that the magazine was in good health and that they had not even had to obtain a ‘ medical opinion ’ on the subject ( it was of course supported partly by a subsidy from Lady Rothermere ) , but that he would look into the Radcliffe Camera question . |
| 10 | The Russian nobility were much less formidable than their counterparts elsewhere , they had not yet begun to export grain , and for the great landowners serfdom was not an unmitigated blessing : as long as there was still peasant mobility they were in a position to attract labour away from the estates of their weaker rivals . |
| 11 | They seemed not to be , but it was difficult to be sure that they had not simply managed to turn away again in time . |
| 12 | They had not long to wait to discover whether Edward was in earnest or not . |
| 13 | Observers were said to be surprised at the decision to hold elections during the Christmas holiday period , when most Kenyans with jobs in cities would have returned to their rural homes in areas where they had not necessarily registered to vote . |
| 14 | They had only just managed to get on the vessel in time . |
| 15 | Sweat from his hand began to soften the crisp white document that had been drawn up after many long night-time meetings when they had all finally agreed to form a co-operative . |
| 16 | They have n't even begun to live and they 're dying . |
| 17 | For the spadefoot , mating is an urgent business : they have not even stopped to feed , despite their months-long fast . |
| 18 | As it is now all the more important that Europe should prove that it can walk before it tries to run , may we look forward to a rigid application by our European partners of all those directives that they have so far chosen to ignore ? |
| 19 | This they have so far managed to suppress with the aid of their ‘ close friends ’ the Americans . |