Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the child does not understand is that unfortunately the GIANTS have to do this . |
| 2 | They have not shrunk from setting aside gifts made to persons in a position to exercise undue influence over the donors , although there has been no proof of the actual exercise of such influence ; and the courts have done this on the avowed ground of the necessity of going this length in order to protect persons from the exercise of such influence under circumstances which render proof of it impossible . |
| 3 | I do the background briefing but the clients have to do most of the work , and so I always tell them . ’ |
| 4 | As the MOD has shopped around Europe for additional supplies of 155mm shells , some of the responses have done little for any future spirit of co-operation . |
| 5 | In the circumstances the defendants had done that which was reasonably practicable and had thereby satisfied the duty of care imposed upon them . |
| 6 | Since then , the directors have done little other than line their own pockets , award themselves enormous pay increases and indulge in dodgy share options , all of which has been done at the expense of the domestic customer , whose bill has gone up by 40 per cent . |
| 7 | Remove Marxism — as the Hungarians have done this weekend — and the pressures to pull down the artificial barriers with the other freer , richer , and more appealing Germany , would become irresistible . |
| 8 | The passing of the years has done little to improve the situation . |
| 9 | Except for pasting the occasional coconut tree with small advertisements for acupuncture , the hippies have done little to disfigure this beautiful spot . |
| 10 | He justified the appeal by claiming that the smugglers had done much for the town 's " smugglers cove " image and that the town would benefit from the resultant increase in tourist trade . |
| 11 | Minton therefore had good reason to worry that the police might one day arrive to search the house , for one of the notorious aspects of the Montagu case was the disclosure that the police had done this without warrants . |
| 12 | The police have to do that . |
| 13 | and , the children have done that tie dying , and after open day , when most of their dollies will be finished soon |
| 14 | The fact that the loom is horizontal means that the women have to do much of their weaving from the sides , which becomes impossible if the rugs are too wide ; consequently , nomadic rugs tend to be either small , or long and narrow . |
| 15 | All the others had done some paragliding before — I was the only total beginner . |
| 16 | All three ran back to the trough prepared to swim for it as the boys had done several times before . |
| 17 | And a lot of the nomes had done this before , too … |
| 18 | We had to do that , the stevedores had to do that , my first of stevedoring . |