Example sentences of "[subord] they have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they 'd all met with their initiation into his flamboyant world of sex . |
| 2 | They join the company from Maersk Company , where they had both worked as Dry Cargo Shipbrokers since 1989 . |
| 3 | Under the Sunni Muslim Ottoman Empire in Syria , they were treated with contempt , abandoned to the poverty of the hill villages in southern Lebanon where they had originally come from Mount Lebanon . |
| 4 | It is doubtful if Marian and Allen would have found again the rock shelter where they had accidentally walked into the arms of the waiting verderers if Allen had not noticed his knife lying where Crane had kicked it . |
| 5 | Although they had often stayed in the country , this was the first time they had lived in it , and that makes all the difference . |
| 6 | It also supported Bitstream 's Speedo fonts , giving users a far wider choice of typefaces than they 've ever had from a DOS product . |
| 7 | Buchan scored 21 goals in his first season , giving Sunderland another £2,100 under the transfer terms , £100 more than they had originally asked for . |
| 8 | They had acquired Isvik at a knock-down figure , spent about the same again completing the fitting of her out to their requirements , and Iain Ward had picked her up for not much more than they had originally paid for her . |
| 9 | Such gigantic creatures could hardly be living in some remote spot unknown to European science , so they had either changed into something else or had become extinct . |
| 10 | I try and make women 's history clearer , because obviously they 've done history A level so they 've probably learnt about wars and all the male sort of things , so what women were doing and thinking and the way in which that has been suppressed ; as much as possible I like to teach by not putting very much of what I think across but trying to get other people to produce it … also encouraging them to share as an experience and personal responses and talking about things one would n't normally talk about in the department , the emotional side of things , in quotes ‘ irrational ’ , ‘ intuitive ’ and all of that , and valuing that … try and make it a space where people can say whatever they want to say ; I suppose value things that would not be valued elsewhere . |
| 11 | For example if you go back to say Queen Victoria and Queen Mary and one of my former bosses was a godchild of Queen Mary and I mean he simply said to me talking not long ago about one of the nobody i people did n't behave like that at court so they 've really asked for everything they 've got . |
| 12 | What they do find difficult is filling their day once they have actually come off drugs because they have built up a kind of lifestyle that has already been said |
| 13 | Actors learn them off by heart and then they rehearse them masses and masses of times until it sounds as if they 've just thought of them . ’ |
| 14 | If they 've never advertised before which is unlikely if we 're going for high fli you know high flier |
| 15 | If they 'd really wanted to . |
| 16 | If they 'd really cared for him , Nigel reasoned , they 'd have stayed . |
| 17 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 18 | I mean someone who would just sit down and tell you things , as if they had just happened on the way home . |
| 19 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |
| 20 | The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville . |
| 21 | The increased dose they would get from having Hinkley C on their doorstep , according to Jeremy Western ( a manager from the Board 's Health Physics department who confidently fronted the radiation case ) was less than if they had simply moved from one part of Britain to another — where the ‘ natural ’ background radiation happened to be higher . |
| 22 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 23 | He was glad for them , they fought so ferociously , as if they had never heard of defeat , they who were already defeated . |
| 24 | At first sight , the lack of breakage of the bones described by Korth ( 1979 ) is surprising , for small mammal bones are very fragile , especially if they have already passed through the digestive system of a predator , as had some of his study bones . |
| 25 | If they have both come to terms with their differences and can now work together successfully , then they are to be congratulated . |
| 26 | When using a rewarding strategy , it is important to make it quite plain to children that they will not be rewarded if they have previously asked for a reward ( 'Mummy , if I do my homework can I stay up late ? ' ) and to apply this rule rigorously . |
| 27 | I wonder if they have really thought about other people 's situations . |
| 28 | Third parties would be bound by the regime and would also be entitled to invoke its provisions and to exercise any conferred right , provided they had expressly consented to it , or their consent could be implied through acquiescence . |
| 29 | Teachers who enjoy their work , feel supported by colleagues and can speak frankly about their ideas and difficulties in the staffroom and in meetings may find it hard to believe ( unless they have recently worked in such a school themselves ) the stories that other teachers tell about suspicion , isolation and backbiting in the school down the road . |
| 30 | I realized he could not catch them , because they had nearly got to the ship , but I did not wait to see the end of that adventure . |