Example sentences of "have [verb] [subord] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pressure was all on Pippa Nolan then … she could n't afford to make one slip … one fence down would have lost it … her heart must have stopped when they rattled one but they kept their nerve and the lead to win Blenheim 's International Horse Trials |
| 2 | The information was collected after the attempt and it is not clear whether patients would have acted as they claimed they would but , taken at face value , the findings support the case for better health education and warning about the effects of drugs . |
| 3 | ‘ They must have known when they sent them over , ’ he raged when he first went on short time . |
| 4 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 5 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |
| 6 | There were certainly more people than she had expected as they edged their way into the crowded lounge . |
| 7 | If I had done as they said there would have been no chance of being fit enough for the expedition . |
| 8 | Hodge and those around him believed Syngman Rhee should be encouraged and believed he could be controlled ; they were later to regret having aided Rhee 's ambitions to the extent that they had done when they found themselves exposed to Rhee 's mordant censure . |
| 9 | It had started when they discovered she was meeting Rob , and they had asked for her promise that she would never see him again . |
| 10 | Since then , his father had told both Thorkel and Otkel to take his son Paul with them whenever there was prospect of fighting , but there had never been anything worth speaking of , except an Icelandic trader who had n't paid his toll and had to be stopped in the Firth , or , once , a small flotilla of ships from Ireland that had fled when they saw them . |
| 11 | Maria lifted a hand to hit him , but he looked so grimly reluctant that her fingers had uncurled before they reached his chest , touching him lightly before moving up to the lock of black hair that had fallen over his tanned brow . |
| 12 | Mr Morris said : ‘ Many of the investors in Barlow Clowes were elderly people and some 500 have died since they lost their money . |