Example sentences of "they have [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 2 | Or they might put her on a prison ship to Australia , as they 'd done with two girls from St Jude 's a couple of months ago , because — on those farms where the transported convicts worked all chained together — there was a shortage of women . |
| 3 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 4 | Cos they 've bonded with each other . |
| 5 | They 've liaised with other organisations to make sure I 've got somebody coming in , even if it 's only to make me something to eat . |
| 6 | The rest of the patients were recruited from the gastroenterology outpatient clinic , where they had presented with transient or persistent abdominal complaints . |
| 7 | The right hon. Member for Hertsmere blew the whistle on his colleagues when he disarmingly said that , when he privatised electricity , he would not make the same cock-up as they had done with British Telecom and British Gas . |
| 8 | How would hill-walkers cope these days , I wonder , if they had to contend with predatory wildlife as a natural part of mountaineering ? |
| 9 | They had regenerated with incredible speed , comparable with that of a bacteria colony increasing in a lab dish — doubling itself within hours . |
| 10 | The advisers did not always accept these arguments and pointed to the fact that they were comparing what they had seen with other schools . |
| 11 | Before the conservative country-offensive had become official policy they had flirted with French supporters of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy ( regarded by its Spanish admirers as a piece of thoroughgoing regalism ) , and had supplied a stock of ideas that were to govern , not only the church settlement made by the liberals in the Cortes of Cadiz , but the programme of liberalism until 1939 . |
| 12 | They had to travel with civilian number plates on the Land Rover , with civilian papers , and out of uniform , so that their military connections would not be known . |
| 13 | He 'd given her so much and she would never forget him , but she would never confuse what they had shared with that elusive emotion — love . |
| 14 | The first time he had to include his brother 's name in an anecdote , his voice hardened a little , but soon he was talking much more easily , telling her of picnics and expeditions and even fights they had had with each other and with the Italian sons of their mother 's friends and relations . |
| 15 | Of the women who admitted to New Woman magazine that they had slept with another man about 80 per cent said they 'd done it because they were unhappy in their current relationship . |
| 16 | But twelve months after they had married with such discretion , Lovat announced that he wanted to return home . |
| 17 | They had started with 235 gallons of fuel , enough for 5.22 hours of flying , but things were now getting critical . |
| 18 | Whereas earlier they had agreed with each other , now they did n't . |
| 19 | If they had agreed with British Airways , I could understand that they might have left the issue alone , but they might have come to different conclusions and taken different action . |
| 20 | In ten days , the unknown Fayeds gained permission to own House of Fraser , and throughout the ten days they put continuous lies before the public to justify the Government permissions they had got with such ease . |
| 21 | but now and they have dispensed with that a hundred years later and more than a hundred years . |
| 22 | Whether they will emerge as market leaders will depend on whether the publishers flood the market with comparable volumes , as they have done with general geology texts . |
| 23 | If they all give exactly the same answer , you can be pretty sure they have communicated with each other . |
| 24 | ‘ Constitutional matters do not have anything to do with being on speaking terms , they have to do with legal status . |
| 25 | They have to do with overlapping , but not necessarily co-extensive aspirations for specialist teams . |
| 26 | Already , they have appeared with great acclaim for five years in succession on the Fringe of the Edinburgh Festival — so successfully , that they were finally invited to the ‘ official ’ Edinburgh International Festival — the first cabaret artists since Marlene Dietrich to be so invited ! |
| 27 | Day after day they have to live with those policies and spending commitments . |
| 28 | And that is exactly how they look — like things that jump out of the dark and land without a body feeling them and burrow into living flesh , flesh they have numbed with preliminary injections , and … suck . |
| 29 | Does he accept that the Government are reducing to fewer than 300 ships the number of vessels that now sail under the red ensign and that they have treated with utter contempt the red ensign , which has served this country well in times of peace and war ? |
| 30 | They have to cope with one or more project managers , and to take orders from their own department head . |