Example sentences of "they have [adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er anything special you know that sor children growing up and you know fathers not seeing them or wives having babies wh which you know they had n't seen perhaps till they were two years old . |
| 2 | But it was a damp , grey morning , and they had n't gone far before it came on to rain . |
| 3 | They had n't gone far when at the side of the road they saw a small boy . |
| 4 | They had n't disappeared simply because she had chosen not to reveal them to the world . |
| 5 | They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long , moaning howl . |
| 6 | If they had not got there when they did , the child would be dead . ’ |
| 7 | They had never drunk more than a couple of beers each , never raised their voices , and always complimented Trent on the fish he grilled each evening . |
| 8 | Inevitably , such paper tigers had no effect on men who had embarked on so desperate a venture , especially when they had never paid more than lip-service to the authority of the Republican politicians . |
| 9 | They have n't decided yet whether my car is going up to his office or to fishing . |
| 10 | There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved : people do n't like poetry because they have n't read enough to come to terms with it , and they have n't read enough because they do n't like it . |
| 11 | They have therefore suffered more than most from cuts in the housing programme . |
| 12 | Then there are some pathetic , weedy looking swots , inadequately equipped and unsuitably dressed , in gaberdine raincoats and Oxford shoes , unwieldy packs all done up with string , who look as if they have never walked farther than a hundred yards at any time in their lives . |