Example sentences of "they have [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police had hoped they 'd seen the last of the joyriding and the crowds who gather to see the stolen cars in action . |
| 2 | It 's a good job they 'd got the second book off to the publishers . |
| 3 | And th they they 've announced the next day that they 're having the same concert as well ! |
| 4 | They 've hit the first … ’ |
| 5 | Their parents like to leave toys by the graves , but on several occasions they 've returned the next day to find them missing . |
| 6 | However , what many fail to realize is that they are already falling ; just because they 've passed the nineteenth floor without mishap does n't mean all will be well when ground zero is reached . |
| 7 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 8 | they 've won the last six home matches |
| 9 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 10 | They had joined the 401st within the previous ten days and this was the only loss suffered by the 615th Squadron on this mission . |
| 11 | Professor Andrew Lyne and two colleagues , Matthew Bailes and Setnam Shemar , astronomers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom , announced in the British science journal Nature of July 24 that they had made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system . |
| 12 | WHEN THE GODS WERE ASKED TO NAME AN AUSPICIOUS DAY FOR the sheep to go south to Aula for the six months of winter , they had said the twenty-second of Kārtik , November the sixth . |
| 13 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 14 | They had reached the first of the amusement arcades : dimly-lit and claustrophobic . |
| 15 | They had reached the first landing when Constance stopped . |
| 16 | This was the first time they had reached the second round and it was reflected in the atmosphere , though the official attendance of 3,877 , a record for the purpose-built Meadow Park ground , was hardly accurate . |
| 17 | By the time they had reached the third field she was beginning to feel more at ease in the saddle . |
| 18 | It was the first time they had mentioned the third who was there in the room with them , though they had both felt his presence , and she , indeed , had lived with it close and uncomforted for a year . |
| 19 | They had waltzed the last waltz together , now the evening was over . |
| 20 | All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography . |
| 21 | During those early months , Kit Everard tried every evening to retire to his new quarters at Belmont and go to sleep ; he read the Bible , by the light of an oil lamp floating in a coconut shell , for they had used the last of their candles . |
| 22 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 23 | Paul Ware scored the goal which won the Autoglass Trophy Southern Area final for Stoke after they had drawn the first leg against Peterborough 3–3 . |
| 24 | On top of that there was the slovenly , almost token , way they had drawn the first covert . |
| 25 | They had started the first course without her . |
| 26 | On the credit side ( if that was the word for it ) , they had discharged the last of the luckless Beador 's debts . |
| 27 | They had entered the Second World War opposed in attitude , and emerged little changed . |
| 28 | In the Hattie Jacques Cocktail Bar tonight , there are probably wry smiles on the faces of those who think they have seen the last of Leslie Bence rucking into the hurly-burly of football management . |
| 29 | And they have to deposit the first year 's payment at the clinic as soon as they arrive . |
| 30 | And they have to deposit the first year 's payment to the clinic as soon as they arrive . |