Example sentences of "have [verb] they [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their religious faith has sustained them in sickness , and in health has prompted concern for the ills of others . |
| 2 | Miller has seen them in action and concedes : ‘ They are in great shape . ’ |
| 3 | Many people have been glad of this device over the years , which has saved them from death or serious injury . |
| 4 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 5 | Inevitably , this has brought them into competition for limited resources with the other activities of the polytechnics and colleges . |
| 6 | This has brought them into conflict with the fishing industry as the harvesting of abalone is commercially important . |
| 7 | The beauty and novelty of the scenery , the luxuriance of the shrubs and above all the originality of the Natives has astonished them beyond description , and so raised their enthusiasm that they seem scarcely to have felt the labour and fatigue of ascending high mountains or traversing deep glens and ravines , in fact so many wonders in the shape of animal creation have sprung up , as it were before them , that their imaginations have been kept in one continued state of delighted excitement . |
| 8 | The taxman ought to require companies to reveal at the end of each tax year how much each company car insured for private use has cost them in depreciation , insurance , servicing and fuel . |
| 9 | The reforms deserve something better than the babble that has followed them from birth . |
| 10 | The industry concerned is the in-flight catering business which in the UK alone , produces many thousands of meals 24 hours a day every day and has to transport them at chill temperatures from the flight kitchens to individual aircraft , quite often with additional problems resulting from flight delays and so on . |
| 11 | Politics as they know it — the system that has kept them in power for the past 45 years — is being challenged by two younger men from their own party . |
| 12 | Therefore the unit also has to prepare them for reintegration into school life . |
| 13 | Unemployment has also played a part as a recruiting sergeant for the underclass , both in the way it has selected its membership , and in the way it has held them in place . |
| 14 | Lord C had said she 'd borne them with stoicism , but looking back she realised she 'd been disappointed not to receive the whole dozen . |
| 15 | Er , it 's in the other magazine I fetched from work after the I 'd left them at work . |
| 16 | Perhaps because she 'd dressed them for winter ? |
| 17 | I could 've throttled them after dinner . |
| 18 | While they were entering their ‘ surplus ’ Hunter and Meteor at Billinghurst , they were taking delivery of Hawker P.1067 WB188 and Meteor IV ( Special ) EE549 from Cosford , having received them on loan from the RAF Museum . |
| 19 | Green weeds and barnacles were thick on them , and whales might have saluted them in passing . |
| 20 | ‘ Moray and the north will always be his , and the rest would have joined them in time with no more than what he was offering : equal rule , equal justice , equal worship . |
| 21 | The immediate sight of him , which should have filled them with relief and joy , brought only terror . |
| 22 | Maria had left the identical cuttings anchored by a small china bowl on her coffee-table , but the bowl had been moved , so he must have examined them on arrival . |
| 23 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 24 | We should have done them off peak as well should n't we ? |
| 25 | If you want uninspired you should have seen them versus SCUM on sunday . |
| 26 | I ca n't remember having seen them in church before . |
| 27 | He could have written them by hand but this would have defeated their objective . |
| 28 | She put on her black trousers and her chocolate-brown sweater because they were at the top of the first suitcase she opened and she would have worn them at home on a cool autumn day when there was mist on the hills and woodsmoke in the lanes and … |
| 29 | A general respect towards her grew out of her sufferings ; having borne them with humility she judiciously re-settled in her native valley . |
| 30 | The characteristic contribution of the senior civil servant lies not so much in the originality and imagination he or she may display in thinking up new policies — these can be a positive nuisance without the ability to convince and lead those , often outside the service , who will have to put them into effect — but the skills to recognize promising new ideas and the opportunities to develop them , and to exploit the opportunities when they occur . |