Example sentences of "they have [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people are likely to judge the reforms on how long they have to wait for treatment — the issue behind the ‘ Jennifer 's ear ’ controversy during the election campaign . |
| 2 | They have gone through privatization and ceased being Civil Servants and gone out into the cold and now they are suffering this blow , so they do , I think , deserve the most generous possible treatment . |
| 3 | ‘ A note has been left at the flat where they lived , advising friends that they have gone to London for a vacation . |
| 4 | Inspector 's Report and the Council 's formal response to his recommendations will be published together after they have gone to committee . |
| 5 | They have gone to Rio to work as maids . |
| 6 | People say that they have gone to Switzerland . |
| 7 | But some Thais are wondering whether they have gone about things in the right way . |
| 8 | From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time . |
| 9 | The crunch game came at the second hurdle when Sudbury toppled the mighty London Welsh at Moorsfield , after which they have gone from strength to strength , bolstered by a refreshing brand of running rugby . |
| 10 | To allow for this , there is a special tax form for retired people to reclaim any tax they have overpaid on investment income . |
| 11 | They have fallen with anger and sadness . |
| 12 | They have argued for decades as to whether we are a result of our environment or our genetic inheritance , and there are always supporters for each extreme as well as for every position in between . |
| 13 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 14 | These weeks are looked back on affectionately by pupils as they remember the camaraderie they have developed with Staff , parent and senior pupils . |
| 15 | ICPIC gives access to details of global environmental legislation including case histories of other companies and the policies they have developed in response to environmental problems . |
| 16 | They have to manage without aids such as wheelchairs or special furniture and be able to write and draw — typewriters and computers are not provided . |
| 17 | What it means , of course , is that very often we have different definitions of experience and reality from men , and that much of what we say is critical of men and about what they have done to women . |
| 18 | They congregate in favoured places such as Quendale Bay , Ronas Voe and north of Hascosay , as they have done for generations , and here they complete their moult into their smart summer dress , to replace the drab dark grey and white . |
| 19 | I would still prefer to see the priority being a quick release of the ball to the backs , purely because they are looking as dangerous now as they have done for years . |
| 20 | Unless the United Nations peacekeepers proved very much tougher in Serbia than they have done in Croatia , that would have made it unlikely that Croats and Muslims would have felt secure enough to return to their former homes . |
| 21 | But where the political and social values of a country redefine the function of a school , as they have done in Tanzania , or , as with the growth of universal primary education , it becomes more obvious that the school is not mainly an escape route out of the village and on to secondary and higher education , so the separateness may become less pronounced and the desire for integration more genuine . |
| 22 | Then they have to rely on Blackburn and Charlton failing to win . |
| 23 | When confident awareness is not available to managers , they have to rely on intuition , judgement by analogy and the informed reports of other people . |
| 24 | Indeed , as I mentioned above , there is plenty of evidence from research with the very young infants that their input systems allow them to make appearancereality distinctions ( for example , apparent versus real shape ) at so young an age that the possibility that they have to rely upon records of their actions to do this is just not worth considering . |
| 25 | It should be quite fun cos they have to carve by messes got these knives . |
| 26 | In the absence of a minimum wage , many of our constituents earn such low wages that they have to resort to state benefits on top . |
| 27 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 28 | Or , if they do not , they have to take on trust the material that the New Historicist scholar-critic hands them . |
| 29 | In that obviously they have to take on board the views of their constituent districts . |
| 30 | Yet in fixing the allocations between departments , they have to take into consideration the policy of the government and what each department proposes to do with the money . |