Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv prt] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've set up an emergency centre , but fear they can do little to stop the devastation . |
| 2 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 3 | They had rounded up an excellent spoil of beasts , and would drive them to meet the main host at Birdoswald or thereabouts , in a short time . |
| 4 | Starting very gradually , they have built up an exercise routine for each patient designed to suit their particular needs and they have found that the results have been quite dramatic . |
| 5 | They have built up an enormous collection of data about the images which subjects , especially white male Americans , have about outgroups . |
| 6 | Another regular complaint from journalists is that the PROs concerned are never in their offices the day after they have sent out an important mailing . |
| 7 | More controversially perhaps , they claim that neither plastic media nor foam offer the right type of home for bacteria — that on plastic media , in fact , they have to build up an adhesive slime which is self clogging to the media and self-destructive to the bacteria . |
| 8 | They have set up an AIDS task force , which has been searching for the bug that causes the disease ; they suspect a virus . |
| 9 | And er certainly Amanda who who 's on strike then you know I mean they do n't get equal pay the women the the the three women that came out I mean one of them 's gone back an Amanda and Helen you know I mean they they were on they were on terribly low wages . |