Example sentences of "they have [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh right , well definitely not employment staff because they 've not even managed to even |
| 2 | It was n't that she had n't tried to form relationships , but somehow they had just never amounted to anything significant . |
| 3 | They had long ago come to terms with that sorrow . |
| 4 | But in other situations — for instance in asserting a mother 's special right not to be deprived of her children , or in offering characteristically female insights to correct a narrowly male view of life — they have equally naturally appealed to the idea of a distinct female nature . |
| 5 | Some of the have passed test but they have n't quite got to eight yet , so erm . |
| 6 | And I have to warn you , coming back to the Emperor 's birthday , that I suspect , because these come from Allentown , Pennsylvania , otherwise known as that erm , they , they have n't actually twigged to the fact , that erm , Hirohito died erm , so it , it , if you are concerned with Japan , you might want to check when Akohito 's birthday actually is , erm , because it may not be the same one as in our , our diaries . |
| 7 | The White Park apart , the British breeds are closely related — they have not yet diverged to a noticeable extent in spite of their apparent differences . |
| 8 | They have not yet spoken to Lonrho or the Al Fayeds . |
| 9 | But the Austrians , an efficient , polite and cultured people , are backward in that they have not yet advanced to the school uniform . |
| 10 | On the other hand it has to be understood that , by the time that Washoe , Koko , and the rest of the humanized-ape fraternity have been endowed with elements of human culture in this drastic fashion , they have long since ceased to be ordinary apes . |