Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now , with the accountants still hiring bulldozers to gather up the money , they 've begun to blow it all via smack , the biggest sucker punch of the lot . |
| 2 | they 've got to carry their own food . |
| 3 | Perhaps they 've changed their minds again , it 's always , there 's , they 've got to frighten you all the time with sometime like that have n't they ? |
| 4 | I think it is very sad they 've had to do it that way . |
| 5 | When the excitement had died down I thought about my family , of all their help and sacrifices over the years and of the hardships they had undergone to bring us all up . |
| 6 | They had preferred to believe their own state-controlled media , which had predicted an Iraqi victory . |
| 7 | A significant number in the survey had been so badly penalised they had left to form their own practices . |
| 8 | If childlessness is ‘ glossed over ’ and the couple adopt , they may feel insecure about their right to be parents when they have failed to have their own baby , which can lead to a poor relationship with a child . |
| 9 | They , for their part , attempt to justify their actions to each other , hypocrisy apparently continuing by habit , having become a way of life ( since there is no one on-stage whom they need to deceive , perhaps they have come to believe their own lies ) : The truth is transparent , however ; indeed , when Gloucester reports that the king is leaving , Goneril says , ‘ My Lord , entreat him by no means to stay ’ ( 301 ) . |
| 10 | This picture was confirmed by the DCSL , who described her impression as follows : The library is extremely well used and my experience of sitting in there during the school day is that they have also achieved very good curriculum use as well , they have managed to overcome what another school , I think , is having problems with … |
| 11 | But perhaps more generally women find their own retirement easier because they have had to organize their own time for most of their lives and have relied more on the small pleasures of domestic life . |
| 12 | They have had to learn to live with one another , to adjust , to get used to each other 's habits , hobbies , friends and relations — the most crucial and critical period for every newly married couple — but they have had to do it all under the full glare of the media . |