Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 2 | ‘ Or it might be one of the people they 've turned out of the bins , ’ said Pam . |
| 3 | Some find it hard to make a decision because they 've got out of the habit or they no longer see the need . |
| 4 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 5 | As they talked they had moved out of the pub , back into the sunlit streets . |
| 6 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 7 | They had poured out of the back room in an interval of the singing and were fighting for the bar with empty glasses , when Mallachy dug Rory sharply in the side . |
| 8 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 9 | They had climbed out of the dunes and were walking now along the canal bank towards the pill-box and the Lock gates . |
| 10 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 11 | They had come out of the Hearing without their children , and without knowing how long it might be before they were able to be together again . |
| 12 | The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes . |
| 13 | Camille accused herself of lack of foresight and rapidly made up a yarn whereby they had thought better of the dinner-party and had spent the evening playing Monopoly at Tim 's place in a blameless fashion . |
| 14 | She wondered why he did n't step across it ; he reminded her of the white mice they had let out of the cage one day . |
| 15 | Change was unstoppable and they had to stay ahead of the game . |
| 16 | Until they had got out of the car to phone , Maxim had never seen Sims standing up . |
| 17 | They had passed out of the daylight into the comparative dimness of the castle interior . |
| 18 | For Rose , of Otterhill Court , Hemlington , and Ann , of Chapman Close , Pallister Park , both Middlesbrough , it will be the first time they have ventured out of the country . |
| 19 | It could be they have got out of the way of doing things that they used to enjoy . |
| 20 | ‘ I am happiest for the players because they have got out of the Cup what they have deserved . |
| 21 | They have opted out of the election due on May 23rd on the pretence that it will legitimise Vietnamese domination of Cambodia . |
| 22 | Although notions of purpose ( ‘ teleology ’ ) still have a place in biology , they have dropped out of the physics and chemistry which have become our model sciences . |