Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course the woman was n't really one of theirs , just some distant freelance , and the back-up with her was some nutty amateur they 'd had to use at the last moment — |
| 2 | Although it 's two years later they 've got to resell at the price that er it 's been discounted more or less . |
| 3 | Swindon Town are through to the third round of the Coca Cola Cup after a nine-two aggregate win over Torquay … and tonight Oxford United will be trying to join them but they 've got to win at Aston Villa … |
| 4 | There 's no point in us getting bogged down , every parish is so different to every other parish , they 've got to look at local needs , that 's not our priority . |
| 5 | and it 's much nicer it , they know what they 've got to look at . |
| 6 | They 've juggled to entertain at college balls and parties this summer , but for their latest production , their first in a theatre , for safety fire has been replaced by ultra violet light . |
| 7 | They 've continued to dig at the back of a house in Swindons Old Town . |
| 8 | They had arranged to meet at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 9 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 10 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 11 | The picture ! — How eager he had been about the picture ! — and the charade ! — and an hundred other circumstances ; — how clearly they had seemed to point at Harriet . |
| 12 | Tony Chivers reported that a number of villagers had volunteered to be footpath representatives and had been allocated two paths each , which they had agreed to walk at least twice a year . |
| 13 | They had agreed to meet at Attigny on 8 May . |
| 14 | ‘ And there would have been little risk , if they had bothered to ask at Snow Hill what time the beat constable was due to pass by . |
| 15 | He had taken his boys to the river , they had played tennis with some people they had got to know at the boathouse ; he had gone mushrooming in the early morning with the youngest one , whom the lethargy of youth had not yet struck . |
| 16 | And even in this conformity the detectives are moving away from the uniform policeman 's concept of correct dress , for they are wearing ‘ civvy ’ clothing like those despised outsiders they have learned to keep at a distance . |
| 17 | Men and women whether single or married who have been unable to work regularly because they have had to stay at home to care for children and/o-r a disabled or elderly person may be able to safeguard their pension by claiming Home Responsibilities Protection . |