Example sentences of "that they have [adv] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had meant to point out to John le Grant that they had both engaged in extremely rough play at Trebizond , and if he chose to carry out another war contract , he was not doing it blindfold . |
| 2 | It turned out that they had instead invested in an airline which never took off , a college that had no students , and a luxury yacht . |
| 3 | And I instanced Bob Geldof as someone whose commitment to the problem of hunger had certainly got things done , and inspired millions of people to see ( even if only transiently ) that they could make a contribution to a problem that they had previously held in their minds , albeit not very consciously , as ‘ not mine ’ and ‘ hopeless ’ . |
| 4 | For it is the importance that the Formalists give to language in their theory of literature that enables them to avoid the difficulties and the fuzziness that they had so disliked in their critical and scholarly predecessors . |
| 5 | I remembered that they had never flown in a light aircraft before today ; I shuddered to think of what could happen if they panicked . |
| 6 | First , it would undo the anti-inflationary credibility that they have painfully won in recent years , and which is the precise benefit offered by EMS membership . |
| 7 | These are the only really dependably low-calorie choices : Consommé — any flavour ( lovely and clear , so you can actually see that they have not sneaked in extra calories ) 60 |
| 8 | This probably explains why little children favour tall animals , that they have never seen in reality , to animals that slither and scuffle across the ground . |