Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friendship is more important than mountaineering , and so for their sakes I told them they 'd done very well and we turned back to the prospect of a more leisurely Sunday afternoon , with colour supplements , cats , coffee and carpets to lie on . |
| 2 | And they 've given far more than but you or I will ever contemplate doing for God ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | they 've lost as far as money 's concerned . |
| 5 | but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have |
| 6 | They 've had far more than what we 've ever had |
| 7 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 12 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 13 | They had moved there soon after Sir Charles had begun to live in Baskerville Hall . |
| 14 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 15 | They had worked together often and got on well . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They had drifted much farther than I would have thought possible . |
| 18 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 19 | ‘ Felicity , ’ said Julia , suddenly remembering the morning they had spent together just before she fell ill . |
| 20 | They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The teacher used a stick to repeatedly tap or prod pupils whenever he felt that they had spoken too loudly or obscenely . |
| 23 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 24 | I am delighted that they have done so well that it is now proposed , even in these difficult times , to increase their establishment . |
| 25 | Does he share my concern that they have found almost universally that the aggression has been initiated by Serbia ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Coming from college a lot of them used to work in groups but a lot of them had worked more individually and they had very flat scores i e everything was quite equal and they did n't have anything coming through okay . |