Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In no manner could they have delayed to ambush poor Irvine . ’ |
| 2 | Oh , they 've started doing guided walks round the cemetery , and there 's going to be an open day at the sewage works . |
| 3 | They 've got vaults full of the stuff . |
| 4 | Very big , and also for the West Germans , because they 've got to absorb these sixteen million or so new er citizens and they 've got to pay for them until they pay for themselves , and meanwhile they 've got to carry various international costs , especially payments to Russia for the Russian troops who are going to stay on for three or four years , and pay for them to withdraw and pay to build barracks for them in , in Russia so that they can withdraw . |
| 5 | The 13 headfuls of ideas they 've got show occasional but disturbing signs of driving them aimlessly away from what makes them so good in the first place and into acid rock tedium city . |
| 6 | Nigel says he 's trying not think about it and taking every race as it comes … what happened in Monte Carlo and Montreal was a wake up call and now they 've got to make sure they just keep going and getting points on the board |
| 7 | That 's what I mean , because if , I guarantee if someone was put in a situation with blood everywhere and that , with being the first aider they 've got to stay calm , but I , I 'd say fifty per cent of all people would pick that kid up and run like hell |
| 8 | er They 've lost most of their goods , er they 've had to leave enormous amounts of , of , of their personal belongings in , in Kuwait , they 're , they 're not physically in bad shape , but mentally they 're , they 're very anxious and , and they know they 've lost a lot of belongings . |
| 9 | They 've had to find practical solutions to practical problems . |
| 10 | The film 's message — the continuing success of this homespun cottage industry with a modern technological core — seemed borne out a few months later when the company won a Queen 's Award for Export ; over a three-year period they had increased exports six-fold . |
| 11 | If they had wanted to fly supersonic jets for a living , they could have applied for the RAF 's pilot training scheme — you have a one in six chance of passing that . |
| 12 | Certainly , when asked directly why they had decided to take early retirement , it was the most frequently mentioned reason by those concerned . |
| 13 | The reason that Schrödinger 's and Heisenberg 's versions of quantum mechanics had seemed at first sight different from each other ( see p. 14 ) was that they had chosen to use contrasting extreme possibilities . |
| 14 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 15 | Next the dancers took to singing while wandering about , but by the 14th Century they had opted to stand still and simply sing , which brought ‘ carol ’ to its present meaning . |
| 16 | He admitted the Council had begun slowly , but said that was inevitable , and that bishops would work better now they had come to understand different points of view . |
| 17 | Such entertainments by Indians at stations which not so long earlier they had attacked became commonplace . |
| 18 | Lawyers claimed they had tried to suppress official papers showing the extent of the arms selling operation . |
| 19 | They had ceased to make monthly repayments in July 1990 and by April 1992 the arrears exceeded £64,000 . |
| 20 | It showed what the weather was and how they had started taking daily sunshine for granted that he had n't got any sort of jacket or sweater with him even though he expected to be away overnight . |
| 21 | There was some doubt as to whether the cleaner was an independent contractor , but the occupiers were held liable as they had failed to take reasonable steps to check that the work had been reasonably done : " The craft of the charwoman may have its mysteries but there is no esoteric quality in the nature of the work which the cleaning of a snow covered step demands . " |
| 22 | Local authorities had missed residents because they had failed to use up-to-date maps . |
| 23 | In a communiqué issued after negotiations in Kiev on Jan. 11 , Russia and Ukraine said that they had agreed to implement international arms control agreements . |
| 24 | Israel and India announced on Jan. 29 that they had agreed to establish full diplomatic relations . |
| 25 | Sure Style acted after a rash of complaints about salesmen terrorising potential customers , refusing to leave their homes until they had agreed to buy double glazing . |
| 26 | The two countries now have the right to dump such material after 2007 , but they have undertaken to give serious consideration to finding land-based alternatives in the meantime and will only be able to dump after consultation with the other signatory states and in accordance with the " no-harm " principle . |
| 27 | The museum director , Mr Murata , states that since French paintings have become so expensive today it is no longer possible for a museum to build a satisfactory collection of them , and therefore they have decided to collect British works , focusing on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists . |
| 28 | In recent months they have begun to tear loose from this platform . |
| 29 | Finally , there will be a few situations in which local authorities have been almost entirely the innovators , in which they have sought to promote local acts through Parliament or in which they have interpreted general powers given to them in quite novel ways . |
| 30 | By so doing they have sought to protect domestic employment , the balance of payments and so forth . |