Example sentences of "[conj] they have [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made her laugh at those dinner parties and other gatherings where they had been together . |
| 2 | He sat down at his desk , straightening his things that Lee had moved , putting them where they had been before , in the exact spot . |
| 3 | In return , Miranda did not mention the occasional missing pair of stockings , headband , hairslide , and , on one occasion , she was almost sure , British Home Stores knickers she 'd had since school , where they had been modestly itemised as ‘ linings ’ in the list of uniform requirements and had her school number scrawled on the waistband by Astrid with a linen marker of indelible ink ( the other girls had Cash 's name tapes in cursive script or small capitals ) . |
| 4 | Where they have been most developed , they act to divorce the firm from the factor costs of a national location , and thus provide a further challenge to older notions of comparative advantage determining the outcomes for countries . |
| 5 | Tindal C.J. in that case gave as examples of permissible retaking by A from the land of an innocent person , C , ( a ) where the goods have come there by accident ; ( b ) where they have been feloniously taken by B and A follows them to C's land ; ( c ) where C refuses to deliver up the goods or to make any answer to A's demand for them . |
| 6 | Gerry , Ahmed and Amitha work for the co-ordinating body of a voluntary advice organization , where they have been centrally involved on the Equal Opportunities Policy Working Party . |
| 7 | These developments appear very similar to those experienced in the USA and a number of other countries where they have been variously termed ‘ counterurbanization ’ , ‘ the rural population turnaround ’ and ‘ the rural renaissance ’ ( see Fielding , 1986 , for a review ) . |
| 8 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 9 | So , for these people , the clinical psychoanalysts , the black books have n't been very interesting , or they 've been actually distracting . |
| 10 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |
| 11 | ‘ Black people , although they 've been here such a long time , have n't assimilated into the business community , or education , as they have in America . |
| 12 | Erm I do n't represent Mr and Mrs as you know , although they 've been in to give us a witness statement . |
| 13 | Plastic ( upvc ) doors are the latest arrival on the scene , although they have been widely used on the continent for around 25 years . |
| 14 | Plastic windows are the most recent arrival on the replacement window scene , although they have been widely used on the Continent for many years . |
| 15 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 16 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 17 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 18 | In the bathroom he peered in the mirror at the creases on his forehead ; surely they were deeper than they had been yesterday . |
| 19 | Too many studios had been built in Britain during the production boom and , at a time when filmmakers were anyway keener than they had been hitherto to get out among ordinary people , they found they were no longer constrained by anxious accountants determined to maximize the use of studio space . |
| 20 | Our findings provide no evidence that non-fundholders were more restricted in their freedom to refer across district boundaries than they had been hitherto . |
| 21 | On the street , a hush below : from a festive air to witnessing a hanging , the crowd — two , three hundred strong , men , women and children ; much , a lot of them , richer than they had been before — looked mutely on . |
| 22 | I mean there is the move to make people judges earlier than they have been recently ? |
| 23 | Clients are likely to be less forgiving of mistakes due to ignorance and incompetence , particularly as those mistakes may turn out to be more expensive than they have been hitherto . |
| 24 | It would be nice if the conference were preceded by an agreement on Cyprus — about which the Turks could usefully be more accommodating than they have been so far — but the conference should not depend on that , any more than the Helsinki one needed a prior agreement on the unification of Germany . |
| 25 | How could she confess that they 'd been right about Ryan ? |
| 26 | Yep , I 'd finished the lodging houses , they were rough , my word they were rough , they used to get drunk and fighting , and of course they used to be amusing really they used to get fighting at a lodging house quite close to the dock and after when the windows was smashed , we would find that they 'd been temporarily repaired with a coal sack taken from the coal yard next door , and all that sort of business , and anyhow , nothing particular out of the way happened until three years later of course when we got the general strike , and the strikers used to meet outside the labour institution headquarters in Street . |
| 27 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 28 | I keep on asking but she 's given me three different answers up to now ; that Deborah felt a bit depressed , that they 'd been out very late to the last show at the cinema in Via Romana which is very near to Piazza Pitti . ’ |
| 29 | Common cause has been established between all the charge-capped authorities , they all believe that they 've been unfairly treated , and they 've all agreed to pursue a common search for remedies to the plight in which they find themselves . |
| 30 | Erm I think that in in broad terms that covers the architectural aspects we we have of course , as er , Paul mentioned at the beginning erm talked the these designs through with the Clark Hill , Honey Hill and Fern Hill Resident 's Association and they have erm been , been shown the exhibition on the estate and er we believe that they 've been well received towards seeing what |