Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |
| 2 | With their bizarre appearance and seemingly mysterious but treacherous way of life , the dodders have certainly latched on to human imagination as successfully as they do to the innumerable species of plants they parasitise , spawning fables , myths and fascinating names such as love vine , immortal vine , vine in the sky , beggar vine , strangleweed , devil 's gut , scald and so on . |
| 3 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 4 | I myself found at the entrance of one of them a small neatly-worked tomahawk , of an inch and a half in length , together with some slips of blue cotton rags , which the birds had doubtless picked up at a deserted encampment of the natives . ’ |
| 5 | The Jordanian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources , Thabit al-Thair , announced on Oct. 24 that Jordan had offered to repay the interest on the US$40,000,000 , but that the Saudis had still turned down a request to re-open supplies . |
| 6 | Since the mid-1980s , however , when the EC started dumping beef , the merchants have increasingly given up . |
| 7 | The goals have just dried up . |
| 8 | I ca n't remember when I have n't had to work on Christmas Day became the animals have never got round to recognizing it as a holiday ; but with the passage of the years the vague resentment I used to feel has been replaced by philosophical acceptance . |
| 9 | The fact that the polytechnics have largely grown out of a technical college tradition , geared to different ends , means that they have practical problems of a kind unfamiliar to the universities today . |
| 10 | ‘ The kids have never looked back . |
| 11 | It is a great thing , however , that all the parties have now sat down to negotiate and I wish the negotiations well . |
| 12 | She had n't meant to ask , the words had just slipped out . |
| 13 | The words had all tumbled out , one upon another . |
| 14 | The Iraqis had also carried out widespread looting and had caused serious damage to the country 's infrastructure . |
| 15 | Of the 30 per cent of custodial parents who had remarried , one-third of the remarriages had already broken down . |
| 16 | Sometimes the interlopers have simply died out . |
| 17 | The dogs have been kennelled , and the bodyguards have either gone back to bed or have fallen asleep in the hall . |
| 18 | In and around the long-abandoned quarries are millstones which the workers had barely started on ; others with their circular shapes and central holes ; a few even have the radial grooves or ‘ harps ’ chiselled into them , ready for use in the flour mills ; but all left lying when the trade collapsed under competition in the eighteenth century from imported French Burr stones , which were thought to be of better quality for the purpose . |
| 19 | But beware , because the bootleggers have already moved in ! |
| 20 | The Rejects had all turned up to see me . |
| 21 | Not surprisingly , the classes have completely sold out . |
| 22 | The lights were fading — the lights had all gone out . |
| 23 | I am her pupil , but I can not read what I have written , because the lights have just gone out and the glow of the electric fire has dwindled to nothingness . |
| 24 | The lights have all gone out . |
| 25 | The lights have never gone out and the table has never rocked , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The docs have all gone off long ago . ’ |
| 27 | No audit opinion is required at the interim stage and the commissaires aux comptes and the auditors have neither carried out an audit nor given an audit opinion . |
| 28 | Frau Nordern glanced at a menu , ‘ And the prices have hardly gone up at all . ’ |
| 29 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 30 | For Betts the explanation was simple , for the British were ‘ afraid to depart from massive but stultifying film values ’ which the Americans had already built up , and the situation was one in which ‘ every film producer in the world is mortally afraid of losing that Hollywood complexion , ourselves most of all ’ . |