Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] they have [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news brought back by Colonel Moore after what they had all supposed was no more than the formal punctuation had almost panicked her . |
| 2 | Then when children turn to secondary sources it will not be in a passive way , but with the purpose of checking ideas about which they have already talked . |
| 3 | Dhani gestured to the door through which they had just come and said , ‘ That door then ? ’ |
| 4 | However wise and fairminded we are , anyone can suddenly find themselves in a fight for which they 've never bargained . |
| 5 | Only a minority entered the kinds of jobs for which they had originally hoped and the rest had to take what they could get . |
| 6 | Their working day is a succession of lessons for which they have either prepared something interesting , dug out last year 's notes , decided to just do the next bit in ‘ the book ’ , or are unprepared . |
| 7 | He was so sure of himself they had even agreed to bring his name into it from the beginning . |
| 8 | The young were living mostly in exile , but exile gave them possibilities of which they had seldom dreamed before . |
| 9 | Something better than that little house of which they had once spoken . |
| 10 | Instead they would continue to work towards what they had earlier described as ‘ a national consensus on a desirable frame-work for the curriculum ’ in the quest for ‘ improvement in the consistency and quality of school education across the country ’ . |
| 11 | Contemporaries frequently commented upon this ideological transformation , accusing modern Whigs of acting on old Tory principles , and new Tories of practising the opposite of what they had formerly professed . |
| 12 | Very few witnesses had been found who were prepared to come to court to repeat their statements in the flesh , but some did and their words were translated first into English and then into German , causing some confusion as to the precise meaning of what they had actually said . |
| 13 | They had lost significance for her yet still had the power to bring her to the verge of tears , reminding her of what they had once meant : of one Easter when the scent had been a gift , of autumn afternoons when she had taken her baby in a pushchair from one to another of the now disappeared junk shops , buying Victorian china , pieces of old lace and old books , looking forward to the future . |
| 14 | Then showing them the results of what they 've actually done . |
| 15 | The Tories , and their ruling-class supporters , wish to keep the ordinary worker from knowing what the substance of this social chapter is , how it really just gives more backing to much of what they have already gained through industrial struggles for nearly 200 years , and the extension of these rights to every worker , especially the more isolated ones . |
| 16 | 5 When children are asked for free recall of what they have just read , ( advocated by Goodman , 1969 ) , younger children often read a difficult passage fluently , but are unable to tap the different levels of meaning ( see below ) . |
| 17 | The opposite problem is experienced by those who are lacking in confidence , who feel that they should not worry other people with their problems and who , if they finally make an appointment , tend to rush through it and come away without covering all the points with which they had really hoped to deal . |
| 18 | All were trapped in something inhuman , into which they had dumbly delivered themselves . |
| 19 | Since the early days of the transition from the old to the new system of local government , agency arrangements have continued to be disputed between counties and districts , and in some cases counties have withdrawn or altered agency arrangements into which they had previously entered ( Alexander 1982a:60 — 5 ) . |
| 20 | But under him they had also spent two mid-Eighties seasons in Division Three . |
| 21 | can not have four week deferred period So what we 're saying is the risk there is too high , and there 's obviously a greater chance they 'll be claiming at a very early stage Okay , so the client has the choice , say , apart from the group fours , they could be four thirty and twenty-six and fifty-two , but again dove-tailing into what they 've already got . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose some of your own nights when you were on the run were not unlike that , ’ she ventured into what they had never spoken of . |
| 23 | Nobody wants a florid letter from someone they have never seen before but as an actor your style and personality must come through sufficiently — a bare list of parts played wo n't convey much . |
| 24 | Even if cosy was n't the word she would have applied to the conservatory opening out before her she could see it was a little more intimate than the vast medieval refectory in which they 'd previously dined . |
| 25 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 26 | Some engineering companies had experienced a decline in demand for their traditional output and were moving into new areas which , if more buoyant , did not offer the same continuity as those in which they had previously operated . |
| 27 | Therefore , in order to avoid panic attacks , they stop placing themselves in the situations in which they had previously experienced these feelings . |
| 28 | Rufus had simply not known who he was , Shiva was sure of that , had not recognized him as one of the other two male members of the little community in which they had all lived in such contiguity for something like two months . |
| 29 | Five bishops during the course of 1326 suffered such confiscation ; four were under similar threat for the way in which they had earlier filled their royal offices . |
| 30 | the industry in which they have traditionally worked has experienced a structural decline ( structural unemployment ) ; |