Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [adv] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | perhaps , Allen told her doubtfully , the outlaws had heard the expedition was starting and had put out their fires as before ? |
| 2 | A large number are incapable of heavy work , and have given up their farms . |
| 3 | ‘ They said there was little they could do about it , although they have been excellent and have stepped up their patrols . |
| 4 | The police harass them , and have closed down their weekly flea-markets and their all-night parties . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what proportion of pensioners are owner-occupiers and have paid off their mortgage . |
| 6 | For thousands of years a few men have searched for these human fruits ; they have filled their minds with the lovely ideas and have taken up their long search and watch on the lonely shore of the other world . |
| 7 | Sows were brought from miles around for mating , while settings of eggs were supplied for broody village hens , who were never fed but had to pick up their food from the village or the rice field . |
| 8 | It had started as a game but had taken over their lives , almost . |
| 9 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |