Example sentences of "and the [noun pl] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Beyond town , beyond the extraordinary cemetery for the pioneers who had created the place and the Indians who had tried to frustrate them , and once the shanties had petered out , the Patagonian landscape was flat and treeless and the gale howled across it without ceasing .
2 Give me friends every time — and the friends we 've got may be few , but they 're jolly good ones , ’ said Breeze .
3 She had achieved her purpose in being able to watch Angel grow , but often she was homesick for Clerkenwell and the friends she 'd known since childhood .
4 We decided to present him with a small token which he can take to his new life , and keep in memory of his bachelor days and the friends he has left behind .
5 Of the three action sample carers , two had moved towards a preference for home care : Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law , though appearing ambivalent , said she was happy for Mrs Cummings to remain at home now that the project , and the services it had generated , had made caring for her mother-in-law so much easier ; and Mrs Cowan 's son-in-law said : ‘ she likes her own home so she 's entitled to stay there ’ .
6 Civic Trust officer Jane Taylor said : ‘ This will involve finding out how many people ride , where they go and the problems they have getting there . ’
7 They therefore published terrible stories about the hardships of emigration and the problems which had befallen many emigrants .
8 My life lay away from them now , and the problems I had brought to work with me that morning reclaimed me with redoubled urgency .
9 Instructions should be obtained from a person or persons with recent , practical experience of the business 's transactions , its products and customers or suppliers , and the problems it has experienced .
10 And the improvements it has produced at the Bridgwater , UK , company , which makes high technology flexible packaging material , have already impressed several key customers .
11 William had not been happy at having to work through the night and at weekends and the tasks he had had to perform were not always pleasant .
12 even the PC is quite an old one , and the tasks I have to accomplish down the line are fairly simple — electronic mail , basic word processing and the like . ’
13 I E we 're not er we 're not the erm the interest and dividend we will be making cash amounts cash payments to read equal to the amounts we actually get from B-Sky-B as and when we get them , but we will therefore accrue them as income and the payments we 've made will be payments that will be part of the cost of the investment .
14 Although she says that it was not necessarily an easy step to take , her community was behind her , and the reactions she has had from friends and teachers have convinced her that the step she took was an important one , challenging stereotypes in the West about what it means to be a Muslim girl , and bringing her a great sense of identity and of no longer being at odds with herself .
15 This was never a very promising argument , seeing that the notice is addressed to the defendants and not to the plaintiffs , and the defendants themselves have made it clear that they have no difficulty in understanding it and complying with it .
16 Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them .
17 But it is not only the artists and the entertainers who have recapitulated , for their own purposes , the fabulous elements in primitive tradition ; the academic writers , the learned purveyors of supposedly factual knowledge , have done just the same .
18 As she learnt to be a friend to herself , she attracted close friends for the first time — and the disasters which had become an accepted part of her life became more and more rare .
19 Then the crowds were running , and the ones who had fallen did not get up .
20 Sir Alexander Cadogan , made chairman in 1952 , had never seen a BBC television programme , and the ones he had seen , in the United States , he did n't much care for .
21 I had never even seen a Muslim — apart , of course , from on the television , and the ones I had seen there — I will be absolutely frank — did not seem a particularly inspiring bunch ! ’
22 two of these at bedtime for yourself , and The ones I 've given you have a slight effect on your skin as well .
23 And the ones I 've had so far are these , Emma , Peggy , Will , Jan and Martin , Stan , Terry , Richard , Peter and Jim .
24 After all , it was the British and the Russians who had dominated Iran through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries .
25 ICPIC gives access to details of global environmental legislation including case histories of other companies and the policies they have developed in response to environmental problems .
26 The Institute has played a major part in the development of the Construction Industry Council and the policies it has developed on the key issues affecting the industry .
27 The French , after all , were the enemies of Russia , and indirectly of the family he despised , and the officers who had hated and ridiculed him .
28 Please use it as a reminder to ensure that you keep up the good work and the resolutions you have started .
29 However , both this question and the regulators themselves have received attention in the economics literature and this material is treated in section 1.3 below .
30 Then she saw that beneath her on the sacred site of Callanish all of the men and the eagles who had fought had disappeared .
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