Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've stepped down here to get from one piece of pavement to another , yet they look like they spent their whole lives underground . |
| 2 | Do n't , Debbie usually come in er , Sunday morning , but er what , they 've got somewhere else to go today |
| 3 | ‘ You 're telling me that you believe three convicted killers just walked out of Whitely prison without anyone noticing and now they 've come back here to duplicate their original crimes ? |
| 4 | And we had one or two er black lads coming in the other end of the building , saying , We know they 've come down here to complain about us , you know , Do n't you listen to them , but where else are we supposed to go ? |
| 5 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
| 6 | I assess the student 's ability and level of performance , and I might come to the conclusion that they had done pretty well to get those grades ; or it might be obvious that they could have done better . ’ |
| 7 | Yet most of the pilot computer users we have spoken to have never even known what kind of data could be had from the Skymaster service , let alone reached the stage where they had worked out how to access the information . |
| 8 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 9 | And they have worked out how to channel the eggs out of the nests so as to keep them clean . |