Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ stuff ’ in question was Bob Ivie 's Hawaiian special ; between them they 'd managed almost to empty the bowl that Wayne had sneaked out . |
| 2 | Brian Horton says they think they 've done well to stay in a tough league having spent hardly any money … |
| 3 | Brian Horton says they think they 've done well to stay in a tough league having spent hardly any money … |
| 4 | He says they 've done well to keep going . |
| 5 | Congress , President , the government have got no guts to announce publicly that their intentions to privatize the N H S on a date that will give the leading time with the razzmatazz and P R that they 've done before to sell shares , to sell shares in the British public in a public nationally held N H S , there will be no seats , there will be no Inspector Morses and others as there 've been with Telecom , gas , water and electricity . |
| 6 | They 've clubbed together to pay for the instalation of two video cameras , which scan the only road into the neighbouring villages of Purton and Halmore . |
| 7 | They 've tried hard to reach owners of models that could be a potential problem but have still reached only 70 per cent of them . |
| 8 | A satisfaction that as a community they 've worked together to bring this about . |
| 9 | It 's a blow to University students who 've had to cancel performances they 've worked hard to produce . |
| 10 | He says they 've worked hard to recreate the period . |
| 11 | He says they 've worked hard to build the company up . |
| 12 | And th I 'm sure every one of you have been in that situation where somebody 's suddenly popped out and committed themself to an overtake and they 've got nowhere to go at all . |
| 13 | They 've got nowhere to practise . |
| 14 | Youth workers Kate and Mike want to make sure they 've got somewhere to go tonight . |
| 15 | They 've got together to form a barter scheme , using a special currency which allows them to work for each other without REAL money changing hands . |
| 16 | And since they 've refused repeatedly to have a public inquiry into what is going on there we 're not certain of the safety of what 's coming out . |
| 17 | Not only are there many more of them , they 've evolved technologically to become even mor dangerous , while at the same time becoming harder to detect . |
| 18 | 7 As an adjunct expressing purpose : They 've come here to work . |
| 19 | very often find knowing that they 've left voluntarily to have babies and have decided not to go back to the job although the job 's been kept open for them . |
| 20 | They had gone aft to leave them to talk to the steersman in private , but one of them , the cook presumably , had disappeared into the galley . |
| 21 | The company admitted that they had done so to avoid paying the new higher taxes . |
| 22 | The question that confronted them-the question they had met today to answer was simple : should they attempt to harness his talents or should they destroy him ? |
| 23 | Either the five had to be willing to take these alone , or they had to yield somewhat to encourage France to return . |
| 24 | Had the time come to forget the promise they had made each other , the guarantee they had given never to meet or speak ? |
| 25 | He was forced into exile in the mid-70s , after the military government started a wholesale repression of the Indians by attacking their leaders and seizing back the land that they had struggled hard to reclaim under the previous regime . |
| 26 | But police say they had to act quickly to protect staff and shoppers . |
| 27 | In working on these activities the class had worked systematically and persistently ; they had collaborated in pairs and groups ; they had identified patterns and structures in the sequences ; they had made predictions and tested them ; they had explained and justified their reasoning to me and to each other ; they had worked practically to understand the sequence and how it could model a real life situation . |
| 28 | Among the young couples moving into the area were those who had dropped out of church life when they had left home to go to university , or when they got married . |
| 29 | They either died there from hunger or exposure , or were taken back into their community when they had recovered sufficiently to present no menace . |
| 30 | She shivered as she remembered the way they had seemed almost to change colour from darkest brown to angry almost-gold . |