Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd seen too many of their comrades tread on something nasty or gut-shot in a FAKINTIL ambush . |
| 2 | Oh I 've been wa , well I 've watched all of them , right , but they 've made so many of those from er really old ones to the very new one . |
| 3 | It 's all right for me , I like tinkering with things , I can be useful , but the rest of them , well … all they 've really got to occupy themselves is grumbling , and they 've become really good at that . |
| 4 | Newcastle though have been flying all season … on top of the table since September they 've lost just one of their last ten league games … some thought they were beginning to slip … five goals against Brentford last weekend proved that Kevin Keegan 's team are still the ones to beat … |
| 5 | But they 've proved so popular with visitors , the order has been increased six fold . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've franked over half of it , ’ she said . |
| 7 | They 've got effectively three of those . |
| 8 | They 've taken over one of the conference-rooms downstairs . |
| 9 | Assistant manager Alan Smith believes the side 's lack of goals — they 've managed only 19 in 15 games — stems from the poor quality of crosses . |
| 10 | They 've set aside thousands of tonnes of salt which they 'll dump on icy road surfaces to make driving safer . |
| 11 | They had suffered too much at each other 's hands to be able to communicate now . |
| 12 | Seven days before they had gone down 5-3 to the same opposition , despite playing the superior football . |
| 13 | Once the British had been driven from the European mainland , they had lost virtually all of the general intelligence that armies gather on their enemy 's positions , his deployment , and his defences . |
| 14 | Other O'Rourke castles had been demolished to prevent the English taking them over , for they had stood too close to the Elizabethan English garrison at Sligo Town . |
| 15 | By the beginning of February they had collected together most of their provisions . |
| 16 | One could not doze easily as one had done in Matt Stukely 's day for there was something too insistently personal in this new parson 's efforts to reach them ; yet they had remained stolidly unreached till now when the fervour of his exhortation spoke to them as with an angel 's tongue . |
| 17 | He had seen it hundreds of times on the faces of people who fancied that they had said too much to him , opened their hearts too wide . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was institutions like the dowry system which made the East African Asian Patels status conscious , or maybe they used the dowry with such enthusiasm because they had become so preoccupied with status as a result of their role in East Africa . |
| 19 | The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life . |
| 20 | The trouble with all these guys is that they had become too aware of their public image after Saddam Hussein 's little escapade into Kuwait and the atrocious acts his troops had performed . |
| 21 | They had pled not guilty at their trial to the three charges . |
| 22 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 23 | The rebels of 1182 had been defeated , but they had weighed up one of their conquerors — and they also saw an opportunity . |
| 24 | They had seemed quite satisfied with his answers to their further questions , piddling little questions about the baby 's weight and hair and eye color , about the progress of the birth . |
| 25 | Having started off making a big success with a little film , they ended up spending increasingly larger sums of money on bigger films until they had expended so much of their capital they could only go under . |
| 26 | They had had so much in Seville and now this bitterness , hatred , mistrust . |
| 27 | Four birds died in the knowledge that they had pulled off one of the best saves ever seen at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 28 | The Liberal Democrats complained that too many schools have outside lavatories ; that the Tories were profligate in setting up a chair of maritime history at a local university ; and that they had spent too much on a ceremonial mace . |
| 29 | In 1988 , Mr Ken Hutchinson , one of the churchwardens , said that this year they had put forward some of the younger men of the parish in order to keep interest in the tradition alive , though there was no lack of interest at present and the schoolroom was certainly packed full . |
| 30 | Guerrilla strength was restricted to certain mountainous regions and they had proved singularly incapable of retaining control of ‘ liberated areas ’ . |