Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally they appear to have had some direct influence on the formulation of the documents — the particular mention of the Anglican communion in the decree on ecumenism for example , as of the ‘ hierarchy of truths ’ — and their advice was sought , at least by the Unity Secretariat ( whose guest they were ) on religious freedom . |
| 2 | And you see all the beams are chamfered , not so much for decoration but because they seem to have done that according to latest research , done that to take the bark off because it was the bark where the parasites tended to get in . |
| 3 | I have seen away supporters being chased up the road into Pleck Park and but erm I think basically a lot of the trouble used to be caused by drink and now they do n't have any drink in the ground they er they , they seem to have cracked that one . |
| 4 | They seem to have dismantled all of the cushions . |
| 5 | In economic terms they seem to have had little effect : in Merseyside , for instance , which has had every new scheme , economic decline has not even been halted , let alone reversed . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll adjust the curtains — they seem to have got all rucked up , ’ she said . |
| 7 | They 've changed changed all the programmes . |
| 8 | Neither the state nor its government is a person ; they are collections of people , and if none of these separate people has acted in any way inconsistently with his or her own principles , what sense can it make to say that the state they represent has done this ? |
| 9 | Erm I think Mr and and Mr between them have have covered most of what I wanted to say so I 'll I 'll just endorse those points but the the other matter . |