Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] have [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last year , charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation . |
| 2 | The persons alleged to have picked up the letter then chase the accusers round the circle and try to catch them before they sit in the empty space , as in the previous game . |
| 3 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 4 | Soviet society is inevitably becoming more technocratic and under the control of an administrative stratum which many outsiders believe to have taken on the characteristics of a new ruling class ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , pp. 209–11 ) . |
| 5 | According to press reports the guerrillas claimed to have carried out the attack in support of a state-wide bandh ( political strike ) backing the implementation of the Mandal Commission report . |
| 6 | Police were reported on Nov. 13 to have arrested 270 people , including one of four gunmen alleged to have carried out the attack . |