Example sentences of "[pron] they have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the most frustrating things for the police is to see someone they have spent weeks tracking down released on bail and subsequently re-offending . |
| 2 | Some donors might have great works of art which they 've lost interest in , or that belonged to their father or their grandfather . |
| 3 | After frustrating years in which they had covered acres of print discussing the sociological theory and implications of newspaper readership , they wanted to compete in the more popular market . |
| 4 | On the legal substance of the case , the House of Lords had little to add to the principles on which they had decided Express Newspapers v. McShane . |
| 5 | Subjects were asked to attempt to remember the 40 junctions for which they had given ratings . |
| 6 | Chaplin and Keaton came into movies from a vaudeville background in which they had seen poverty and experienced it for themselves . |
| 7 | On June 24 some 3,400 Somali refugees were brought ashore in Yemen after the ship in which they had left Mogadishu two weeks earlier , the Gob Wien , ran aground off the port of Aden . |
| 8 | In the Moray Firth , they placed a ‘ headline barrier ’ , from which they had suspended reflectors at two-metre intervals . |
| 9 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 10 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that subjects in this study were more likely to recall the situations in which they had experienced risk . |
| 12 | Study 1 demonstrated that drivers were substantially more likely to recall those situations in which they had experienced risk . |
| 13 | It is now generally appreciated that Warner Bros had been particularly badly hit by the depression , largely because of the furious rate at which they had acquired movie-houses in the 1920s . |
| 14 | The Legion would return you to the place at which they had taken charge of you . |
| 15 | The Moslems , members of the Jamaat al Muslimeen militant sect , had staged an abortive coup in July 1990 during which they had taken Robinson hostage [ see pp. 37606-07 ] . |
| 16 | A Mathematics class working through sums with half the children in a state of total incomprehension and getting all the examples wrong , while others spend fruitless time doing sum after sum on a process which they had mastered weeks previously ; |
| 17 | ‘ I have been requested by the Governors of the school to express our thanks to Rosemary Parkes and David Burns [ from Hygiene Preston ] for the competent , efficient and courteous manner in which they have conducted business . |
| 18 | Those of us who draft these clauses have to look at similar cases , to see which restraints the courts have upheld and which they have declared void . |
| 19 | The Rank Organisation 's policy requires employees who leave within 12 months of moving to repay their disturbance allowance , all fees for which they have received reimbursement , removal costs , travel costs and any out-of-pocket expenses paid by the company . |
| 20 | In the maritime Antarctic they form short mats or cushions up to 25 cm across and 5–1Ocm deep , typically on warm north — or west-facing slopes close to sea level , in association with each other and with mosses ; they are usually underlain with brown soils to which they have contributed roots and other organic material ( Longton , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | In March representatives of more than 1,000 private firms decided to set up the Association of Private and Privatised Business , which they have invited Mr Gaidar to run.Two other lobbies for reform have come into being , the Entrepreneurial Policy Initiative and the Inter-regional Trade and Banking Union . |
| 22 | In the English Department they have done work in which they have interviewed parents . |
| 23 | The YCCC have made videos of a number of important confrontations with the City Council , and with other State and Federal organisations with which they have had meetings . |
| 24 | Like their prey , they are members of the segmented group of animals , though the degree to which they have retained divisions in their bodies varies considerably . |
| 25 | Letters are often a hoped-for source of descriptions of events or of personal feelings about certain things ; and one source of written information which , though not in letter form but not wholly dissimilar , can be useful for the researcher , is the description written by children or young people of events in which they have taken part , or about given social situations . |
| 26 | Normal rats learn rapidly to avoid arms from which they have taken food on that trial . |
| 27 | They will understand me too quickly ; they will turn my own generosity against me and despise me for the lovers I took ; and they will cast me as the woman who briefly threatened to interfere with the writing of the books which they have enjoyed reading . |
| 28 | Er the Director of Transportation recognises that , it was said that he 's happy to await the outcome of liberations by that er District Council and that 's what the Conservative group has suggested that we do but if he wants you to recognise that every policy has to be accepted , the way in which they have performed time and decided to be addressed by my members of of all parties and therefore I urge you to support the Conservative resolutions I now put forward . |
| 29 | Port Vale 's FA Cup run has hampered Rovers in their chase for Vale boss John Rudge , who they had placed top of their shortlist for the managerial vacancy . |
| 30 | Since day one they have made changes in the restaurant , and the customers have responded by eating there more often . |