Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have gone some way to healing their internal rifts . |
| 2 | Erm , they have made some progress erm , but there is still one major outstanding item , which Jenny promises , on her return , she will take up complete , which is erm , new procedures for a continuous survey . |
| 3 | Some satisfaction , let it be conceded ; and it will certainly be true that most voters will find that a candidate for whom they have expressed some preference will have been elected . |
| 4 | Ironically , one reason why so many antiracist initiatives have failed is because they have assumed some kind of transitive relation between policy and practice . |
| 5 | Yes they have got some stuff , yes he 's gon na get a price to make some on this hard plastic that we 've got on the . |
| 6 | But they have spread some way beyond their original site , and suckers and seedlings ( including a wonderful cherry-plum with round , thick , orange fruit ) crop up for hundreds of yards along the hedge . |
| 7 | They have mastered some corpus of knowledge , however small , and have probably made some contribution of their own to its development . |
| 8 | They have added some colour and flair to our underground surroundings . |
| 9 | Already they have had some success with soil around a leaking petrol tank at LLNL , and Matthews ' group thinks that TCE-contaminated soil should be a practical target . |
| 10 | It is possible that they have had some influence upon the Government of the UK during the 1980s , which has been markedly less disposed to intervene as directly in industry than its predecessors . |
| 11 | The data so far accumulated suggests that half or more of the adult population of this country believe that they have had some sort of direct religious experience . |
| 12 | Perhaps they have had some effect , by importing into English prisons a tradition of collective action by prisoners in pursuit of demands made of the prison authorities . |
| 13 | They have had some crap win it though . |