Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone whose car has broken down in the middle of nowhere will appreciate the value of belonging to a motoring organisation that 'll come to the rescue at any time of the day or night . |
| 2 | Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks . |
| 3 | Johnny has screwed up in the States and is trying to make a fresh start in London . |
| 4 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 5 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 6 | The words had come out in a babble and by the time he had gathered his wits and been able to respond she had put the phone down . |
| 7 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 8 | Leaflets calling for this protest action had gone out in the name of the underground organization Mwakenya , and were echoed in a BBC World Service broadcast by the exiled writer Ngugi wa Thiongo , but workers were urged by the official Central Organization of Trade Unions to ignore the " seditious leaflets " , and commentators noted an understandable reluctance to identify openly with Mwakenya by supporting its strike call . |
| 9 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 10 | The strong tactics have paid off in the case of the prison officers , who went back to work last week , but there is increasing concern on how to deal with the tax collectors . |
| 11 | The majority of the law lords seemed to regard the interests of the state as coterminous with the interests of the government of the day ; executive-minded comments to that effect have lingered on in the textbooks ever since , an unwanted legal legacy from this period of popular protest . |
| 12 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 13 | But the old pub had burnt down in the 1960s and been replaced by a more profitable and thrusting enterprise . |
| 14 | What had started out as a dramatic sea chase and developed into a running battle had fizzled out in a disappointing anti-climax . |
| 15 | 52 and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 ) , the law had settled down in the form which I have indicated . |
| 16 | The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote . |
| 17 | By the early part of the 20th century , milling on such a scale had become concentrated in two main mills , the Albert Mills ( which James Reynolds had set up in the Albert Warehouse in 1869 ) and the City Flour Mills , described in 1906 as ‘ large and well equipped , having adopted the roller system at an early date ’ . |
| 18 | She 'd nothing to worry about , especially since that old bitch Mrs Gerard had walked off in a huff . |
| 19 | All the earlier amphibians from the late Carboniferous and the Permian had died out in the Triassic , including the cotylosaurs . |
| 20 | The de Warrenes had died out in the later middle ages , the priory was pulled down in 1538 , and with the disappearance of traditional authorities attention turned to the lesser but more numerous town houses of prosperous local merchants and the gentry who needed homes for the legal and social seasons . |
| 21 | I like the way the lambs have settled down in the field have n't they ? |
| 22 | Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland . |
| 23 | With the breakdown of the administration , crime syndicates have come up in a big way . |
| 24 | Eddie McNally has won through in the men 's singles Section A with wins over G Byrne 21–15 and Richard Neilson whom he beat 21–14 to face the experienced Tommy Hopper . |
| 25 | As Jonathan Zeitlin has pointed out in a similar context , there are ways in which the product of an industry can affect the margin of manoeuvre of both employer and trade union . |
| 26 | It is indisputable , however , that much of the money made available by the EEC and by national governments for price support ( guidance and guarantee ) as well as for structural purposes has ended up in the richer regions . |
| 27 | While skirmishing has started in the Senate , which will not consider the economic plan for a few weeks , something like open warfare has broken out in the House . |
| 28 | Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years . |
| 29 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 30 | But the Grand Emissary had swung up in the very newest model of the Novablast Personaluxury Liner , making me feel like a meteorite next to an asteroid . |