Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The longer the problem goes on — and many of my patients have suffered for years — the worse it is likely to get . |
| 2 | As an enthusiastic Darwinian , I have been dissatisfied with explanations that my fellow-enthusiasts have offered for human behaviour . |
| 3 | Their eyes had met for only the briefest moment , but it had seemed like a lifetime . |
| 4 | The traditional Marxist view that high public spending ensured effective demand and legitimated the capitalist state has come under increasing empirical questioning as , in recent times , those who could be termed capitalists and their supporters have called for spending reductions . |
| 5 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 6 | An image haunts me now : Jo 's abandoned child-self , sent away , aged 5 , as an evacuee , as if her parents had died for her . |
| 7 | Both characters indeed show allometry ; but we have found that relative tooth size or relative antler size are related to the extent to which males have to fight for females . |
| 8 | When Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 she and her government in London ruled less land than her predecessors had done for hundreds of years . |
| 9 | Even where the entrances were very well hidden by ploughing and cultivation , the rabbits somehow found their way back to the selfsame underground burrows their predecessors had used for generations . |
| 10 | A tiny minority of landowners lived in enormous wealth and comfort , exacting feudal dues and enforced labour from farmers who had in effect become their tied peasants : these landowners still engaged in the grain trade as their families had done for generations , and as if they could think of nothing else to do . |
| 11 | Tears are shed as the traditional homes and communities are left — where the peasants and their families had lived for hundreds of years — and they go to feed the machine . |
| 12 | This is how monarchs and their families have lived for generations , without ever questioning that it should be so . |
| 13 | Even today , a third of the population of the city is employed in industry , many of them in the one in which their families have worked for generations . |
| 14 | In state schools , shortage of funds has meant that pupils or their families have to pay for materials and equipment . |
| 15 | This chapter will trace some of the changes in the position of young people over the post war period and some of the ways in which sociologists have accounted for them . |
| 16 | This is followed by a brief outline of the continental legal system to which critics have turned for a solution to our problems . |
| 17 | ‘ The workers toil in the beautiful city that their masters have provided for them . ’ |
| 18 | Her lawyers had asked for the sentence to be dropped in favour of community service because her health is failing . |
| 19 | In 1983 a hairy snail was discovered in the Thames marshes near Kew , where its ancestors had lived for the last 10,000 years . |
| 20 | Among the mountains around the lake , Kurdish tribes , in their distinctive and spectacular garb , lived as their ancestors had lived for centuries . |
| 21 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 22 | He overthrew the Pythia , who with her ancestors had ruled for an eternity . |
| 23 | Everything would have combined to emphasize the fact that she was no longer part of the terrain her ancestors had occupied for so many generations . |
| 24 | But health officials in the Darlington and the Northallerton health authorities said their budgets had allowed for the pay rises . |
| 25 | We have established the independent Pay Review Body which nurses had sought for so long , and increased their pay by 43 per cent . |
| 26 | That two of his sons had fought for Parliament may have played a part in this transfer of loyalty . |
| 27 | He did n't tell Anthony that his parents had paid for his travels . |
| 28 | Chief executive Mr Baker , 54 , saw his earnings increase from £135,911 to £383,935 while his workers had to settle for a 5.5 per cent wage rise . |
| 29 | Spurs grabbed a consolation just before the end from debutant Sol Campbell , who showed the enthusiasm his team-mates had lacked for most of the game . |
| 30 | The young lord was overjoyed to see what a beautiful wife his friends had found for him . |