Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I can understand them not having the pricing right , I do n't think they 've spent long enough working out what the prices of things are . |
| 2 | Do n't , Debbie usually come in er , Sunday morning , but er what , they 've got somewhere else to go today |
| 3 | Come 's stint on the toilet trail may be short-lived if the critical hoo-hah they 've elicited thus far translates into sales , but actually this is a band better suited than most to the world 's more fetid punk rock bunkers . |
| 4 | If the above conditions were not acceptable , then those officers who had recently joined should be allowed to return to their original units as the terms on which they had volunteered no longer applied . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They had spent so long reaching a place of safety , and were now so near . |
| 8 | Building contractors and employers soon became aware that the contracts into which they had entered no longer made provision for those situations which were beginning to arise : but new standard forms were slow to emerge , and it is only in recent years that these have proliferated . |
| 9 | Over the aeons they have become so thoroughly integrated into the cooperative unit that became the eukaryotic cell , that it has become almost impossible to detect the fact , if indeed it is a fact , that they were once separate bacteria . |
| 10 | For reasons which need not concern us here , they have become almost solely used on the tail rotor servo of model helicopters to assist in controlling the tail and are known as tail rotor gyros or just ‘ gyros ’ . |
| 11 | Among his observations is the following assessment of the sexual cunning of the tom-cat : ‘ As the females when they have kittened no longer seek the company of the males , these last , to obtain once more their companionship , practise a curious artifice . |