Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 2 | Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ . |
| 3 | TWO student chefs from Darlington College have won through to the finals of a national catering competition . |
| 4 | From the urgency of new single ‘ Fight ’ to the Snowboy-fuelled groove of ‘ Lucky Fellow ’ , McKoy have come up with the goods . |
| 5 | ‘ They say the Hidden Folk have come out of the mountains and attacked the Rorims to the south in league with the beasts , ’ the landlord whispered confidentially . |
| 6 | ‘ And six thousand people have come out to the meetings . ’ |
| 7 | RESIDENTS in the area where a new superstore is planned have come out against the proposals . |
| 8 | However , none of us should forget the relief of misery and the ending of conflict which have come about through the changes in Ethiopia , in Angola and in Cambodia , and we should not forget the changes in Vietnam , in Mozambique and in the western Sahara . |
| 9 | You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ . |
| 10 | Consequently , compromises have built up over the years . |
| 11 | Agencies like this find that some people want a complete change from previous work , others like to continue using the skills they have built up over the years . |
| 12 | The goodwill and excellent relations that Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell have built up with the authorities in Gran Canaria seem to be in the process of being matched in St Lucia : more and better facilities were planned for Rodney Bay Marina , parties were organised and funded , and a special ARC committee to deal with such things as restoring extinguished navigation lights and easing participants through customs formalities was set up and presided over by the Prime Minister of St Lucia . |
| 13 | The occasion is the 25th birthday of the U-K owners club and around half of its 1,300 active members have turned up for the celebrations at Silverstone . |
| 14 | Other players who have turned out for the Nomads this season include the likes of Peter Dixon and Brian and Harry Patrick . |
| 15 | The undertakers have moved in as the middle-men , the ‘ third party ’ , who handle all the unpleasantness and worrying details of death . |
| 16 | A number of explanations for urban economic decline are based on the assumption that jobs and/or industrial investment have moved out of the cities because of prevailing production costs and the problems associated with the older urban cores . |
| 17 | These people have crawled out of the sewers . |
| 18 | According to Burnham Beeches superintendent Ian Turney : " Since grazing was stopped , young trees have grown up between the pollards , competing for light , water and nutrients . |
| 19 | She pitied him , and said , smiling gently : ‘ No , you have grown up in the years you 've had my old garage , and you are very much a young man . ’ |
| 20 | Over the years , texts and commentaries have grown up around the hexagrams . |
| 21 | Many psychological theories have grown out of the observations of the often abnormal communication styles of families of schizophrenic patients . |
| 22 | " Or it is possible that exaggerated stories have got about of the valuables in Moorlake . |
| 23 | As many as 300,000 people , many of them farming families who have flooded in from the villages , are clamouring for survival . |
| 24 | And the effects have rippled down through the years into just about every local music scene in America , from the blues players to the hillbillies up in the mountains . ’ |
| 25 | And er , as I say , observing this and watching Hector 's work and how things have gone on over the years , er as you know , there 's been a tremendous revival of interest in driving , so many people have er , restored carts or had new ones built and erm the young farriers who 've never had the experience with driving horses , they have run into problems with erm , keeping them going soundly and overcoming problems which crop up when horses are driven on the road a lot . |
| 26 | The unpredictability remains even when we have read to the end of the couplet. even when we have processed both lines of the couplet , our understanding will not be complete until we have gone back over the lines from the viewpoint of their relationship . |
| 27 | The majority of the law lords seemed to regard the interests of the state as coterminous with the interests of the government of the day ; executive-minded comments to that effect have lingered on in the textbooks ever since , an unwanted legal legacy from this period of popular protest . |
| 28 | Millions have tuned in to the tapes to spice up their sex lives . |
| 29 | Nursing homes , student residences and preparatory schools of discreet reputation have taken over from the merchants . |
| 30 | At the end of the day I had the satisfaction of presiding in the Lords debate on the Bill and noting the very last words in Barbara Castle 's account of the affair : ‘ Now , unexpectedly , I have received a letter of ‘ appreciation ’ from Harold for the ‘ hard work and long hours ’ I have put in over the consultants ' ‘ package ’ . |