Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] they have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 2 | It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money . |
| 3 | He put the back of his hand on each forehead and asked Nellie if they 'd complained about pains in the ear . |
| 4 | She judges everybody by their star sign , too , avoiding Scorpios because they 've got a sting in their tail , Geminis because they 've got split personalities and Taureans because they 're stubborn , irrespective of the staggering complexity of human nature . |
| 5 | Chris Morris told me that the other group had got caught in Basra because they had lost touch with reality briefly and got careless . ’ |
| 6 | erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before . |
| 7 | ‘ The wholesale pillorying of Pakistan after they had behaved unquestionably badly at Old Trafford was a good deal to self-righteous for my liking . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ said O'Rourke when they had calmed down , ‘ it 's just that that was the gesture Edmund Kean is supposed to have used on the ‘ Is this a dagger ? ’ speech in Macbeth at the New Theatre Royal , Drury Lane , in 1823 . ’ |
| 9 | But there was no stopping Swindon once they 'd got the second . |
| 10 | But Curbishley had few worries about beating Sunderland once they had had Kay sent off for foolishly retaliating against Walsh . |
| 11 | And a lot of times , particularly after shooting in the east , they were cut off from getting to Damascus so they had to put their tapes on the boat to Larnaca and up-link it from Cyprus . |
| 12 | A.R.R. until they 've found their sea-legs . |
| 13 | Middlesbrough would have checked the championship march of Blackburn if they had taken their chances . |
| 14 | Connections had postponed running plans for the previously unbeaten Tenby until they had established the cause of his failure . |
| 15 | She judges everybody by their star sign , too , avoiding Scorpios because they 've got a sting in their tail , Geminis because they 've got split personalities and Taureans because they 're stubborn , irrespective of the staggering complexity of human nature . |
| 16 | Gina had nagged him and Anthony since they had got up . |
| 17 | A total of seven points out of eight were lost to the Tayside club last season and Aberdeen 's only point from United this term came at Tannadice in December after they had held , and then surrendered , a two-goal lead . |
| 18 | SIR — In addition to the problems encountered by Spanish researchers in finding a post in Spain after they have obtained a doctorate in another country ( see Nature 306 , 502 ; 1992 %and ; 361 , 578 ; 1993 ) , there is also the slowness of the procedure for obtaining recognition in their title . |
| 19 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 20 | Asking Mr and Mrs Bloggs if they had seen the improvement in specific aspects of Fred 's work and then showing examples to back up statements made is one way of opening up discussion to avoid teacher domination of the meeting . |
| 21 | At Prague airport , Anderson is searched thoroughly for Hollar 's thesis but nothing is found ( scene fifteen ) , the explanation being , as Anderson reveals to an indignant McKendrick once they have boarded the plane ( scene sixteen ) , that he has hidden it in McKendrick 's briefcase . |
| 22 | Mary Estlin 's Bristol and Clifton Ladies ' Anti-Slavery Society also warmed to the changed tone of Broad Street although they had broken from them barely a year earlier . |
| 23 | All were BMS missionaries in Zaire until they had to leave that country . |
| 24 | So he set off one day with Moira , as she spoke French , and they stayed in Geneva until they had organized the shop . |
| 25 | He said that France was still shipping the missiles to Argentina because they had signed a contract . |
| 26 | ‘ I have agreed with his owner to let him run at Newbury because they have had a lot of rain down south . ’ |
| 27 | Patrick and Jane had remained in the flat in Kelly Street since they had brought there two days ago , they had n't ventured outside the door and had remained quiet and away from the windows . |
| 28 | " They have spotted a group of seladang cows and calves grazing a half mile away , " said Devraux when they had finished . |
| 29 | In southern Africa several of the states have no coastline , Zambia Zimbabwe Malawi Swaziland so they have to depend upon other countries for access erm to the coast , and that means their transport patterns are very very dependent upon others . |
| 30 | he 's like Mrs cos they 've got power really over the men |