Example sentences of "of they have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mind you , a lot of them had come from the army and from the navy — but I do n't think that makes man 's nature alter to that effect . |
| 32 | I thought it possible that directional sightings could be made from the centre of the tower through the crenellations and was intrigued to find that one of them had disappeared since my previous visit . |
| 33 | A moment later the two of them had disappeared into the house , leaving me standing there in the sunshine , feeling suddenly weak at the knees . |
| 34 | If truth were known , he had had a wife , as well as a perdurable old mother , a great bicyclist and supporter of local Labour causes , but both of them had died of cancer , no replacements possible there . |
| 35 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |
| 36 | Many if not most of them had doubled in size during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 37 | Although many of them had starved in the past and were therefore well equipped to recognize starvation now that they had met it again . |
| 38 | The men asked some very technical questions and during conversation it turned out that one of them had worked on the construction of the Visitors ’ Centre and another had been employed on the construction of one of the Scottish nuclear power stations . ’ |
| 39 | More than two-fifths of them had worked in the company for at least thirty years . |
| 40 | A number of them had worked in Nouadhibou , Mauritania 's second largest town . |
| 41 | She was aware of a past neither of them had spoken of much — at least , not while she 'd been there . |
| 42 | John Hales of Coventry , a bitter opponent of enclosures , wrote in 1549 that the bulk of them had occurred before the accession of Henry VII , and the Italian historian Polydore Vergil ( probably writing about 1530 ) , said of the proceedings of 1517 , that for half a century or more previously , sheep-farming nobles had tried to find devices to increase the income of their lands , and that to this end they had destroyed dwelling-houses and filled up the land with animals . |
| 43 | They were things both of them had sacrificed to this relationship which she was beginning to understand was destructive to both of them . |
| 44 | Shiona would never forget the next few minutes when the two of them had arrived in the big sunny sitting-room . |
| 45 | In 1990 , BP Chemicals had a total of nearly 20,500 employees worldwide , but 3,500 of them had left by the end of 1992 . |
| 46 | If one of them had tunnelled into a snowdrift , his ski-sticks unfindable , another had slipped and was dangling over the edge of a snow-capped tunnel . |
| 47 | Talking about the position of young blacks , he noted that because they felt neither ‘ socially nor economically secure ’ many of them had drifted into situations where more or less regular confrontations with the police were the norm of their daily experience . |
| 48 | He knew , as well , that Tree Spirits cling tenaciously to their homes until those homes become untenable because of the Tree dying and drying and he thought that Miach 's spell must have been stronger than any of them had thought for it to draw the Spirits so filly and so firmly into the open . |
| 49 | Pete was remembering the night — it seemed like years ago , but it was n't so long — that the three of them had sat in the Zodiac down in the workshop and Wayne had made some gentle fun of Pete 's funeral suit . |
| 50 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 51 | Under the right conditions they come into existence at a great rate , but no one of them has existed for long , and all will be destroyed within a few months . |
| 52 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 53 | Visual communication has been categorised in various ways but none of them has succeeded in being comprehensive . |
| 54 | None of none of them has got in contact with me . |
| 55 | They are socially mobile , many of them having risen from working class backgrounds to new heights in the class structure . |
| 56 | They took turns at leading , each of them having begun by trying to be the man . |
| 57 | Before setting out she had buried her husband , two sons and a daughter — all of them having starved to death . |
| 58 | I do not think there is any question of them having embroidered on these events in any way . |
| 59 | I regard the whole idea of privatising the NHS as quite daft - impossible in a universal service offering the full range of service to every citizen of all ages and states of health without any of them having to pay for their medical treatment . ’ |
| 60 | Most of them have moved into houses , you know , and become like us . |