Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | McGowan vanished with a couple they 'd brought home in the car . |
| 2 | And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade . |
| 3 | Do you think perhap , erm , because it 's not so busy , do you think perhaps they 've cut back in the restaurant , and that 's why you 're doing a bit more work for the restaurant , you know , doing the floaters and things . |
| 4 | they 've gone down in the world again a bit . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've stopped right in the entrance . ’ |
| 6 | In the meantime , all the genuine members who 've stayed on are livin' in the tented village they 've set up in the grounds , around the burned out house . |
| 7 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 8 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 9 | Some who were on the list contested their placing and felt ‘ it was unreasonable that they had lost out in the advertisement race ’ . |
| 10 | In the London , Ontario case , each of the three complainants admitted that they had participated willingly in the sexual relationship , so the accused 's solicitor argued that there was no evidence of a sexual assault . |
| 11 | Their opponents linked the negative phenomena in Chinese society with ‘ bourgeois contamination ’ , as they had done so in the ‘ spiritual pollution ’ campaign . |
| 12 | Embarking on a spell of 10 games in 25 days , which will decide their Second Division fate , Sunderland let slip a 2–1 advantage they had obtained early in the first half . |
| 13 | They easily found the track they had followed earlier in the day . |
| 14 | Having wandered about all over the house , they had ended up in the dining room where the cabinet full of glass was . |
| 15 | They had stopped briefly in the great sculleries to pack up provisions . |
| 16 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 17 | Vera asks me : ‘ Why did you stay a Communist for so long , even after your friend was executed in 1950 ? '' ’ The friend in question had been a schoolmate and they had worked together in the resistance . |
| 18 | Alternatively , they might pause in order to connect the material they have just read to material they had read earlier in the text . |
| 19 | They had looked together in the sheds , behind the dustbins . |
| 20 | He ruled out further help for the legalized opposition parties , saying that they needed time to win supporters , and that was why they had fared badly in the April elections . |
| 21 | As the battering wind seized them they had to stoop along in the darkness , fighting for handholds , first the base of the old pulley , then the mast . |
| 22 | The exchange was not always beneficial ; migrants from the old inner areas often regretted the life they had left behind in the move to a more open plan or high-rise environment ( Young and Wilmott 1954 ) . |
| 23 | They drifted apart as casually and amicably as they had drifted together in the first place , with no ill-will on either side . |
| 24 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 25 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 26 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |
| 27 | Then we went in to Hamish and Tone 's for tea and apologies , and later drove to the castle for what would have been the most excruciating interval of my life if Verity and Lewis had still been there , but they were n't ; they had taken off in the car to visit some friends of Verity 's who lived in Ardnamurchan , and would n't be back until late tomorrow at the earliest . |
| 28 | As they had lain together in the glorious lethargy which followed passion , Vitor had told her he would go for the petrol , but that he would go alone . |
| 29 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 30 | I think that the issue really is erm are there ways in which perhaps they could be helped to do this more productively , and are there ways in which they could be helped to do this rather more collaboratively than perhaps they have done so in the past ? |