Example sentences of "[prep] they have be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet three years earlier , at the important siege of nearby Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte , the French had used thirty-two cannons , gunstones for them having been conveyed there in carts and by packhorse . |
| 2 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 3 | Other innovations were also approached with circumspection by the BEA headquarters design engineers , even though significant experience of them had been gained both in this country and abroad . |
| 4 | Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before . |
| 5 | Eleven of them had been treated previously with size 10 French plastic stents for a mean duration of 15 ( 2–36 ) months . |
| 6 | We have actually four questions and three subordinate questions which we were addressing and only one of them has been resolved so far and that is whether the Chairman of the Police Authority should be appointed by the Home Secretary or by the Authority and we are I think all have to agree that it should be by the latter . |
| 7 | Getting prisoners to realise there are people worse off than themselves , is the main idea behind a 3-day event at Stoke Mandeville. 30 of them have been helping mentally handicapped people of all ages simply to enjoy themselves . |
| 8 | Some of them have been invited again and again to meet the London ambulance service for a briefing other than that which they get from the trade union . |
| 9 | We 'll kee got to keep on getting it in proportion that ninety nine percent of them have been done right and that 's as to the seven hundred tests in out of four point five billion , is very small numbers indeed so the vast majority of women can be reassured . |
| 10 | Actually they 're all er they are , nearly all of them have been broken so they 've obviously caught up with the list from the . |
| 11 | Although many of them have been answered already in an expanded form elsewhere in the book , we are including them again here in a more concise form for easy reference . |
| 12 | Erm , and neither of them have been brought here , they 've done the bit that suits them , of of of civilianising the the the er crime prevention officers but the bit that actually needed doing they 've not done |
| 13 | Three of them have been grouped together under the protection of a united association of breeders : the blond Bénais , the chestnut Aure et Saint-Girons in Auroise and the white Lourdais milking breed . |
| 14 | ( At one point it was commented that ‘ There are an infinite number of ways of organising our file references , and most of them have been used already ! ’ ) |
| 15 | While the ramparts had been melting , the jungle beyond them had been growing steadily thicker . |
| 16 | Although notice accounts are normally worthwhile , the return on them has been cut so much that there 's little reason for people to choose them over postal accounts . |