Example sentences of "they have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people are likely to judge the reforms on how long they have to wait for treatment — the issue behind the ‘ Jennifer 's ear ’ controversy during the election campaign . |
| 2 | They demand more resources for the school in their areas : they complain vociferously if they have to wait for their operations ; they demand that the state intervene to subsidise the price of the rail tickets from their commuter homes to their work . |
| 3 | Charles Eldred-Evans , for the Red Cross , said : ‘ Provided they have gone for good , that would be a big step along the road to resolving the problem . |
| 4 | They have argued for decades as to whether we are a result of our environment or our genetic inheritance , and there are always supporters for each extreme as well as for every position in between . |
| 5 | Instead , they have argued for non-discriminatory tariffs which , in effect , would be imposed in a way which would take the existing level of imports as a baseline . |
| 6 | Because they have waited for this moment . ’ |
| 7 | Each time the yen slips , the larger these dollar-based assets loom in the banks ' balance sheets — and the more they have to scrounge for additional yen-based equity at home in order to prevent their capital-adequacy figures from slipping back below the BIS requirement . |
| 8 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 9 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 10 | In this heart-warming play , an elderly couple spend the summer , as they have done for many years , at their lakeside home in Maine . |
| 11 | ‘ I am sure that both Prince Charles and Princess Diana will feel a tremendous sense of sadness and of failure too , as they have done for some time . |
| 12 | I appreciate everything they have done for me and I 'll never forget that . |
| 13 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 14 | They congregate in favoured places such as Quendale Bay , Ronas Voe and north of Hascosay , as they have done for generations , and here they complete their moult into their smart summer dress , to replace the drab dark grey and white . |
| 15 | Now say your diabetic has stabilized as they have done for , a couple of years or so with their insulin injection in the morning and their breakfast and that 's how they carry on then till their tea break or lunch time they know exactly how much they 're taking . |
| 16 | I must also thank my parents for everything they have done for me and especially this wonderful event , my wedding to Steven . |
| 17 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 18 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 19 | I would still prefer to see the priority being a quick release of the ball to the backs , purely because they are looking as dangerous now as they have done for years . |
| 20 | They have disposed of the different regimes relevant to the different kinds of legacies , and they have adopted for all of them the rule applying to trusts . |
| 21 | Mr Diplexcito , his wife and three daughters have fought a rearguard action for the past two years to stop their cottage at Spittalburn , where they have lived for the past 17 years , being buried by earthworks . |
| 22 | ‘ We now need to have good communications and contracts with tourist attractions , so we know exactly when they are open and if they have to close for any reason , ’ says Ms Burrows . |
| 23 | On using the straws they often note and comment on the matchings they have made for colour and/or size . |
| 24 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 25 | They have moved for him because they can no longer wait for Gascoigne who will not play again this year . |
| 26 | Sometimes when fishkeepers are abroad they come across that wonderful fish they have desired for years . |
| 27 | It is a remarkable tribute to their builders that they have survived for fifty years in regular service , albeit in rebuilt form . |
| 28 | The monuments in our care are the best and they have survived for specific reasons — yet they are only the tip the iceberg of our archaeological inheritance . |
| 29 | Sometime this year , when they find the five-bedroom house and 100 acres or so they want , they will take themselves and the building business they have run for 10 years down there permanently . |
| 30 | The Thompsons ' lease expires in late June and the couple say they have no choice but to leave the pub they have run for more than 15 years . |