Example sentences of "they have [adv] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics .
2 Prince Jan Lubomirski , who managed to buy his castle of Kruszyna back from the local council for a symbolic zloty ( they refused Barbara Johnson 's offer of millions in a fine gesture of patriarchal loyalty ) , can not get the Lodz Museum to return the set of family portraits removed from it , even though none of them has ever been exhibited since being confiscated .
3 They caved in ; I mean it was only a sister and a niece , and they 'd both been provided for during his lifetime and the niece got a couple of hundred thou in his will .
4 Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though .
5 They 'd both been working for nearly two years , and all that time they had n't been paid a penny .
6 His insults had been no less cutting than the American 's , they 'd just been delivered with more urbanity .
7 They 'd already been marinaded in red wine and spices before being fried up with onions , mushrooms and ginger .
8 They 'd all been made by small independent producers from Gloucestershire , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , Shropshire and Devon .
9 They 'd origionaly been staying at the hotel Mediteran , but then moved to a villa .
10 They 've also been plastered on walls usually reserved for political propaganda .
11 no , when you get someone 's relative phoning up because they 've just been crushed under a lump of machinery , that 's is very fraught .
12 Lest the childless or single feel left out by the cosy umbrella of ‘ Parents For Safe Food ’ ' however , they 've lately been acknowledged by the incorporation of the words ‘ And Others ’ in the organisation 's title .
13 " No , I was not : I 'm not a member of the South Tipperary Brigade , but I heard the details from one of the lads there , and they 've since been confirmed by the Big Fellow himself . "
14 They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags .
15 Oh there 's a char , there 's a lovely char here , these lovely chars er actually spend most of the time in big cold lakes and they 're a , they 're a population in they normally respond in December from about December the second to the fifteenth and they 've probably been isolated since fourteen thousand years ago , with that every population has gone slightly different to , to the next one .
16 They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital .
17 Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so
18 they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't
19 They 've never been reviewed in ZZAP ! , though , so unless they slipped out under assumed names I 'm afraid you 've had it .
20 Those upland fields are the hardest land of all to till , not only because of the incline , but also because they 've recently been reclaimed from the forest and the soil is still heavy with roots and stones .
21 they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm
22 Inevitably , though , some people missed the point entirely and as a result they 've often been tarred by the indiscriminate brush of ‘ gothic rock ’ .
23 Now they 've obviously been exported to this country . ’
24 Although they look sweet and innocent enough , they 've actually been registered under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act .
25 They 've all been listening to the trainer .
26 They 've all been released without charged .
27 They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury .
28 IN JULY last year I wrote about the brothers Peter and David Mason and their father Peter , who had been banged up in Liverpool jail for more than a year , though they had n't been convicted of anything .
29 On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it .
30 ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date .
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