Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would they have switched off the cold fountains in Trafalgar Square ? |
| 2 | , you had a built in , and on the left , they 've torn down the whole building . |
| 3 | Yeah , I mean , they 've torn down the whole building inside the big . |
| 4 | It has much improved printer support , though , and with 3D graphs at long last arriving on the Lotus menu , some users will think they 've picked up the wrong spreadsheet ! |
| 5 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 6 | Now they 've come out the front door and the bus is running er coming down the road so they 're running for that bus , so they 're using up their energy , the insulin level 's there , but the energy level is going down . |
| 7 | The officer in charge went forward to check that all was well and with a Permanent Staff Instructor laid out the electrical initiation cable and applied the detonators to the ring main they had fitted up the previous afternoon . |
| 8 | Mark 's compensation and pension terms would be spelt out to him by New York within the next two weeks , after they had checked out the maximum terms permissible under British law . |
| 9 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 10 | Critics then and now say that Nonconformity did not create a new architecture after they had given up the old seventeenth and eighteenth-century meeting house . |
| 11 | Certain they had bottled up the Australian patrol , the Japanese searched the town house by house next day , but Laidlaw and his men were long gone . |
| 12 | It was only after they had worked out the correct tautomeric form of each base and found that adenine is exactly the right shape to pair with thymine ( and guanine with cytosine ) that they thought of Erwin Chargaff 's discovery that DNA always contained equimolar amounts of bases in each of these pairs . |
| 13 | Together , they had set up the famous soap box . |
| 14 | It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money . |
| 15 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 16 | By the time they had splashed up the far bank Nathaniel Sherman was fifty yards away , moving erratically , breasting the grass , preparing to risk a standing shot at two hundred yards . |
| 17 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |
| 18 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 19 | They had walked up the worn stone staircase , arm in arm , with their beautiful girl child dancing around them . |
| 20 | ‘ Then if we actually go ahead and build the New Jerusalem , they have to take up the full rights , which would amount to … 2.000.000.000,00 . ’ |
| 21 | Here they have sought out the well-oxygenated water where the streamer weed grows thick and the natural food breeds in profusion . |
| 22 | They have taken on the single-seat Broburn Wanderlust sailplane stored since the mid-1940s at Farnborough , Hants . |
| 23 | They have taken over the unfinished Bristol Babe project ( BAPC.87 ) held by the Hemswell Aviation Society . |
| 24 | In order to seal off the source of nutrition it is necessary for the activated lymphocytes to gather round the blood vessels once they have used up the local resources . |
| 25 | ‘ The company claims there may be room to manoeuvre but they have spelled out the bottom line and that is 229 jobs in Birkenhead and 66 in Litherland . |
| 26 | They have drawn out the magical circle simply to trap the adventurers , when they saw them approaching the area . |
| 27 | They have picked up the wrong book and are probably in the wrong bookstore . |
| 28 | While the public may be cynical about electoral promises , governments of whatever complexion customarily take pains to demonstrate that they have carried out the main proposals embodied in their manifesto , as well as other commitments or ‘ pledges ’ given at election time . |