Example sentences of "they have [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |
| 2 | Oh bloody hell why do they have to put such long words in them ? |
| 3 | And when you see the features of each instrument , and hear the prices , you 'll soon see why they 've caused such a storm … |
| 4 | It 's also given us the new agreement on working time which our own government have tried to work against consistently for the last two years , they now say they 'll challenge it in Europe 's Court of Justice , well what they seem to forget is it 's got ta come back to Parliament for a second reading yet and they 've created such ill feeling in the Parliament and among the Commission , that it 's likely to be strengthened , we 're gon na end up with a strengthened agreement on working time by the autumn of this year . |
| 5 | I mean , they 've made such strides … |
| 6 | I 've always voted conservative but I feel they 've made such a mess of everything I 'll vote for someone different this time . |
| 7 | They 've become such regulars as they 've followed the national tour they now give the Star , Clayton Mark , a lift back to Cheltenham every Saturday night . |
| 8 | Now they 've done such a good round we 're a bit nervous , but I think we 'll be OK provided the winds stay the same |
| 9 | These old Jews , they 've got such a feeling for kids , they can spot 'em almost before they 're conceived . |
| 10 | I think they did n't like a lot of bright light in the house in the fifties , er and of course before that and er now that people they 've got such good lighting in the offices where they work that they feel that , well they ca n't bear to poor lighting at home and yet there are still people who will watch a colour television with er no lights on in the room at all |
| 11 | if ever you get to the stage where the left of the party or the right of the party , either extreme wing , feel that they 've got such power , that they can pull the whole thing their way , the danger is that the bits at the other end will snap and that of course is the disunity danger which had absolutely devastated the Labour party , where the left did exactly that and the moderate centre That 's if you can call it that , snapped off . |
| 12 | Now I know one or two people who said they 've had such terrible headaches |
| 13 | He often felt hungry when they had made such magnificent love . |
| 14 | And , all run here , everything was run here , and animals , animals that won here , well er well I think they put them down as better animals than animals that raced before the war , you know , cos they had to do such a lot in a short time . |
| 15 | The appeal committee refer especially to the personal difficulties urged by Mr. Choudhury and in the last sentence state expressly that they had balanced such personal hardships against the prejudice to efficient education mentioned in section 6(3) ( a ) . |
| 16 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 17 | They had become such friends that it seemed unnecessarily unkind of him to stay away . |
| 18 | And they had expressed such interest in the Feargach Grian she was saying ; as people of culture and learning , naturally they would be interested in it , she quite understood this . |
| 19 | This was the first time they had shared such intimacies , yet there was a familiarity about the touch of muscle and skin , the shape of flesh and bone . |
| 20 | Our correspondent smiled to herself , no doubt thinking that the railway company must be short of staff if they had to bring such an old man out of his back garden to work the system . |
| 21 | They had known such hunger that even now Olga could not bring herself to throw away a single crumb and always ate whatever was left after a meal . |
| 22 | ‘ They must know why their husbands and fathers were away so long — and why they had to face such dangers . ’ |
| 23 | Ramsay explained that his lordship 's goodbrother , the Earl of Moray , had desired to see his sister the Countess whilst in the vicinity , as was but natural ; and while there , they had learned that the defences of the castle were being strengthened , in view of possible attack by the English , and they had offered such small help as they could in this excellent work in the realm 's interest . |
| 24 | Perhaps they had thought such a warning from one soldier to another might have seemed an impertinence . |
| 25 | Whether they had taken such action with the explicit authorisation of President Gorbachev remained unclear , although it was widely agreed that he had failed to respond adequately to the loss of life that had occurred . |
| 26 | Necessity sometimes drove half-pay officers to seek a commission in an active battalion even when they had attained such an advanced age that any chance of a successful military career was long over . |
| 27 | In the past few years they have done such a great job in establishing a platform to build on . ’ |
| 28 | However , that is a mechanical provision : Williams v Singer is authority for the proposition that the trustees can not be assessed where they have made such a direction . |
| 29 | We have to believe they are right because they have played such an important part in our identity and in defining the world for us . |
| 30 | Indeed , many seeds will not germinate unless they have undergone such passage or , at least , had the nutritious outer integument of the seed , an aril , removed . |