Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 2 | Course they were worried because they they 'd bit off more than they could chew , same as you say about this like you see . |
| 3 | And they 've given far more than but you or I will ever contemplate doing for God ! |
| 4 | Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today . |
| 5 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 6 | they 've lost as far as money 's concerned . |
| 7 | but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have |
| 8 | Do you think they 've come on then since we interviewed here ? |
| 9 | Yeah they 're all up now , and they 've come out just as |
| 10 | They 've had far more than what we 've ever had |
| 11 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 12 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 13 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 14 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 15 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 16 | They had moved there soon after Sir Charles had begun to live in Baskerville Hall . |
| 17 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 18 | A good deal of credulity and nonsense was indulged in the name of psychology but there was no nonsense about the concept of ‘ psychological obsolescence ’ , the new technique for making people dissatisfied with what they had bought more quickly than ever before . |
| 19 | They had drifted much farther than I would have thought possible . |
| 20 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 21 | ‘ Felicity , ’ said Julia , suddenly remembering the morning they had spent together just before she fell ill . |
| 22 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
| 23 | Fleury 's cakes had not turned out very well ; in fact they had dried as hard as the stone they were baked on , and had to be chipped off with a bayonet . |
| 24 | The upshot is that , since he married Albertina in 1944 , they have spent rather more than 30 years of their 45 years of marriage apart . |