Example sentences of "[subord] they have [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 2 | Between January and May 1922 no money from any central agency was given to them , so they had to depend on the surplus of local revenues and gifts after the guberniia relief committee had made its own collections . |
| 3 | They have already complained to the waiter without satisfaction , so they have descended on the reception desk demanding to see the manager . |
| 4 | It must be something that happens to men once they 've served on the Western Front . ’ |
| 5 | To judge by the mushrooming of research networks in Scotland — adult education , gender , and for teacher-researchers — researchers need never be lonely once they have decided on the category into which they fit . |
| 6 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 7 | The Chinese restaurants and McDonald 's are still doing well because they have concentrated on the product . |
| 8 | She had slipped into doing no work for some days , would he look at it , please , as a kind of holiday — after all she had not had one since they had started on the course — she hoped she would be able to do better again next week . |
| 9 | Miss Logan began to reflect upon the changes in her employer since they had arrived on the mountain . |
| 10 | They had been stolen in 1907 causing both the British and Irish authorities much embarrassment , especially since they had vanished on the eve of a royal visit . |
| 11 | If the directors do state their reasons the court will investigate them to the extent of seeing whether they have acted on the right principles and will overrule their decision if they have acted on considerations which should not have weighed with them , but not merely because the court would have come to a different conclusion . |
| 12 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 13 | Cursing under his breath , and still keeping his face averted from Huy , the man threw a handful of small silver bars in front of the fat woman , who scooped them up almost before they had settled on the surface of the table . |
| 14 | Only minutes after they had pressed on the Greystones line , British Lion prop Nick Popplewell sealed his side 's success with a galloping 30 metre run and score . |
| 15 | From the first day on , when they had met on the wide steps of the strange school , they had loved one another until the last , when they left this school , never to see one another again ; and they never knew that their friendship was love , their love passion . |
| 16 | This led the group to recall , towards the end of the meeting , how they , too , had got nowhere with work-refusing children while they constantly demanded better work from them ( thus identifying with Mr E as having known failure instead of contrasting their own better results with his , as they had done earlier ) but how they had been able to help them when they had worked on the relationship . |
| 17 | To earlier when they 'd turned on the TV ? |
| 18 | 2 As they have pondered on the growth of state intervention ( which they largely regard as undesirable ) so they have come to bemoan the absence of legal limitations on parliamentary sovereignty and competence which could hold that intervention in check . |