Example sentences of "they have [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 32 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 33 | His father had wounded another bull in the same herd , but not mortally , and although they had tracked it by a faint blood trail for an hour , in the end , to the senator 's ill-concealed irritation , they had been forced to abandon the search . |
| 34 | They had relayed it through the Royalbion representative there , Jim Fletcher . |
| 35 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 36 | ‘ When they had read the publicity material offering help for the recently bereaved they had read it as an opportunity to be out and meet people again . |
| 37 | And they had to park it in a a , an alley on the side . |
| 38 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |
| 39 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 40 | As we have seen , repeal feminists had not been opposed to moral disciplining but they had promoted it through the more ‘ feminine ’ domain of voluntary agencies , attacking the statist solutions of male professionals . |
| 41 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 42 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 43 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 44 | Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way . |
| 45 | But they have to take it as a fact , and it is a fact which prevents them from envisaging our liquidation . " |
| 46 | He then says that Caesar does n't seem to let his emotions speak more than his reason , but ( this is the next six or seven lines ) when ambitious young people are starting out , at the bottom of the heap , they are humble and look up with awe , but once they have made it to the top , they scorn all those below them , who have helped them to get there . |
| 47 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
| 48 | The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant . |
| 49 | They have roughed it around the world ever since , at an age when most people would be content with a game of bowls at Eastbourne . |
| 50 | They have seen it as an arrangement whereby some gain at the expense of others . |
| 51 | They have treated it as a cheap option , giving workers a minimum training and offering them the minimum resources and telling them to get on with it — basically because that 's good enough for the poor . |
| 52 | They have to run it as a business now . |
| 53 | They have put it to the test and found it true . |
| 54 | I think the problem is , that at the moment sex education is so arbitrary and it varies from school to school and from house to house I think they have to make it like a core part of the curriculum , make it compulsory and make it uniform throughout the country , so everybody 's getting the same education , the same quality I think that 'll help . |
| 55 | But instead of filtering food from huge quantities of water they have to extract it from a mass of indigestible vegetable matter . |
| 56 | With much love and labour , they have transformed it into a beautiful home which they are now pleased to share with their guests . |