Example sentences of "they have [adv] [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , whales are supposed to be mammals who returned to a life in the sea — so , if the evolutionary theory contained all the answers , why should they have ever lost what to most mammals is an exquisite and finely tuned sense organ ? |
| 2 | And they 've only got it to seven ? |
| 3 | ‘ Well , they 've never mentioned it to me . |
| 4 | I was officially the gardener , but had come to fulfil also roles of secretary , comptroller of household , translator , interpreter , and stool-pigeon ( which they had always intended me to be ) . |
| 5 | She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality . |
| 6 | They have already said it to the Wilson Committee : we are doing our best to preserve the value of the funds entrusted to us , and any attempt to force us to invest in projects offering sub-optimal returns for ‘ social ’ reasons is an attempt to make us break faith with our customers . |
| 7 | Instead , the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade . |