Example sentences of "have [vb pp] at their " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she recognised the figure of her cousin 's fiancé , whom she 'd met at their engagement party , the man standing beside him was a complete stranger . |
| 2 | They should have placed at their disposal Inigo Jones 's original designs for Whitehall Palace , ‘ which are of acknowledged beauty ’ . |
| 3 | The Lloyds believe the valuers must have looked at their address , Haileywood Farm and mistaken it for Haileywood House next door , a mansion owned by Ian Paice , the drummer with the rock group , Deep Purple . |
| 4 | It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips . |
| 5 | Those who gave a positive answer to the question of universality seem to have arrived at their position through the following sequence of essentially functionalist propositions : |
| 6 | She had protested at their taking the Friar 's sack but now she allowed herself to be swept along by them without resistance . |
| 7 | You get wet , sweaty , but there 's nothing to dry the sweat off , not sweating and drying off , so they feel clammy , okay , so we 've looked at their colour and we 've felt their skin and we 've felt that it 's horrible and clammy and cold , what about their pulse , we 've gone down to the pulse now |
| 8 | There was a bit less hair on his scalp but he looked as fit as he had done at their previous brief meetings . |
| 9 | Some names had been crossed off , as teachers had died at their posts , or departed to more luxuriant scholastic pastures . |
| 10 | The deceits they 've got at their disposal ? |
| 11 | Although he might have decided to forget the way they had clashed at their last meeting , she had no doubt that Luke 's misgivings were still there . |
| 12 | Alexander , always a connoisseur of garments , realised that Frederica had changed her style , that the clothes the young creatures were wearing could be described as a parody of the clothes Frederica had worn at their age , and that Frederica 's new style was not unrelated to this shift . |
| 13 | They had arrived at their given destination , had ridden out the Chief Wren 's wrath , and tea — and toast , too , if their noses were to be believed — were within blessed reach . |
| 14 | When the last one had arrived at their home in Wellington , Margaret Telford had said thoughtfully to Lucy , ‘ There 's something wrong with Bertha . |
| 15 | The pattern of the first day of the autumn term was fixed ; the first-years , who had arrived at their halls of residence the day before , came to the department in the morning to sign up for various optional courses . |
| 16 | Mr Williamson did n't mention it in his description of the way he 'd arrived , the County Council had arrived at their five hundred and odd hectares and er so far as West Yorkshire 's aware , it 's been ignored or so f as far as we 're aware so far , it 's been ignored . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , some teachers claimed that the appraisal had produced little in the way of changes and some had difficulty in remembering quite what the adviser had proposed at their own feedback session . |
| 18 | They later took all the techniques they had learned at their dealer into stockbrokers and other financial services outfits , where it was often too late to unlearn them . |
| 19 | There have been very few with the gift of Dante or John Milton , who have written at their best when being most Christian . |
| 20 | From sample surveys of some ten villages in different regions of China and at different levels of income this project will map out differences in the scope and ranges of resources which rural householders in China have had at their disposal in the last few years . |
| 21 | some youngsters have died at their first sniffing session |
| 22 | In common with other leading manufacturers , Nike has majored on fit as the latest sports shoe battleground , but the Oregonians have arrived at their solution in a relatively minimalist fashion . |
| 23 | Many candidates all down the line think of headhunters as privileged individuals able to hand out plum jobs willy-nilly to those in their favour ; at the same time — somewhat contradictorily — they regard them as dodgy , cowboy characters who have arrived at their coveted positions in life after having failed at everything else they have attempted . |
| 24 | Call me when they have arrived at their destination . ’ |
| 25 | Both Lyall and McGiven have remained at their London homes since coming to Ipswich . |
| 26 | The dominant cultures have very often not understood their ways , have gaped at their nakedness and laughed at the rituals they do not understand . |