Example sentences of "they have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 32 | Then , the day before it was due to begin , they had already run out of conference handbooks . |
| 33 | They had then rolled off towards Pushkin with Myeloski eating the vobla out of an old copy of Izvestia which was unrolled on his lap . |
| 34 | So , in the winter evenings , they would draw the curtains and watch The Sound of Music or Bridge over the River Kwai and feel as though they had never moved out of Twickenham . |
| 35 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 36 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 37 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 38 | They had all squeezed in behind the driver for the run to Canterbury , where there was a Jaguar agent . |
| 39 | It is impossible to regard the Government 's actions as effective negotiation when they have simply opted out of the two basic economic and social issues and have left an empty chair in the European Community . |
| 40 | Though they were much used in Baroque times for aria accompaniment , they have largely fallen out of use , and as the chaconne construction is an art and study in itself we can make no more than a passing mention here . |
| 41 | They assemble in colonies many thousand strong and nest in long holes that they have either taken over from rabbits or dug for themselves . |
| 42 | The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing . |
| 43 | They have now run out of steam . |
| 44 | In the past , so-called biodegradable plastics have been viewed as fraudulent by environmentalists , as they have only broken down into smaller pieces . |
| 45 | They have all gone off to work or to look for work , leaving behind the old , the disabled , the women and the children . |
| 46 | Bite Three : ‘ A Prime Minister and a Cabinet so busy trying to recreate the present in the image of the past that they have entirely missed out on the opportunities for the future . ’ |
| 47 | Maybe they have always gone on at opponents , teammates and referees , but their rantings are now shown in close-up and full colour . |
| 48 | They have given many parties in their time , but on New Year 's Eve they have always gone out to the gatherings of others — sometimes to several gatherings in the course of the evening , and some years separately , not always meeting even for the magic chimes . |
| 49 | But when a High King or Queen is born , they have always come up to Tara 's gates , and sung him — or her — into the world . |
| 50 | As though Bigwig 's angry impatience , Pipkin 's terror and the approaching dog were not enough to contend with , the cleverest rabbit among them had evidently gone out of his mind . |
| 51 | ‘ Most of them have probably caved in by now . |