Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The fuselage has broken off behind the pilot 's seat , the propeller shaft and gearing , having fallen away from the engine on impact , lie nearby . |
| 32 | He looked apologetic. ‘ … since nightfall , the wind has backed around to the south , with sea swells of some ten to fifteen feet . |
| 33 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 34 | It is said to show how the club has changed along with the community of South-east London . |
| 35 | In the 5 years with Maxwell junior at the helm , the club has dropped back into the second division and shows debts of up to £4.5 million . |
| 36 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 37 | And he took the side of Vice President Al Gore against other cabinet members in committing the United States to lowering by 2000 its emission of greenhouse gases to 1990 levels , a provision the Bush administration had kept out of the global climate treaty signed at Rio . |
| 38 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 39 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 40 | The Gold Coast had fallen back from the situation 50 years earlier when English-educated Africans had played a leading part in administration , Christian leadership , the judiciary and the learned professions . |
| 41 | The brashness had gone out of the sunlight , and the air had a chill . |
| 42 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 43 | His eyes had flicked up to the top of the small cliff to our left . |
| 44 | Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother . |
| 45 | Perhaps the most notorious was a forger ; Coiner Varley who escaped sliding down a rubbish tip which the market traders had pushed up against the wall of the gaol . |
| 46 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 47 | She felt grubby , tired and , now that the car had pulled up outside the cottage , sickeningly tense . |
| 48 | A car had pulled up by the gate . |
| 49 | This beggar had come in to the fitting shop , corner at the back corner , where he should n't have been . |
| 50 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 51 | Major debt defaults in Mexico and Brazil had prompted a worldwide retreat from international bank lending and the virtual collapse of the syndicated loan market ; since then , unofficial observers estimated that some $45,000 million of net development capital aid had flowed back from the borrowing countries and towards the lenders . |
| 52 | Even before the securities houses announced their decision , the advantages of issuing new equity had slumped along with the Nikkei . |
| 53 | PKK members had attacked a gendarmerie post in Sirnak 's Uludere district , and officials reported that surviving PKK fighters had fled back across the border into Iraq . |
| 54 | As I entered , Miss Kenton had turned back to the window . |
| 55 | Lee and his stepdad had come out of the shed . |
| 56 | Earlier a smaller number of Cardiff supporters had run on to the pitch in celebration of their side 's equaliser in a game which the Welsh club eventually won 4–2 . |
| 57 | By this time the crowd following the marchers had spilled out across the roadway , effectively breaking the ban on a march within the city walls . |
| 58 | At the 18th green Manuel and Andy had walked back to the marked circle . |
| 59 | Elizabeth , meanwhile , had managed to get down the lane and had reached her father-in-law 's farm , even though the narrow cart track was blocked in several places where the snow had drifted up against the hedge . |
| 60 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |