Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd forgotten to shut up his dogs ; they 'd waited patiently outside the front door . |
| 2 | They 'd moved away from the office district and she was now in an area of sandwich shops , electrical stores and ticket agencies where the traffic was heavier and the pavement crowds more dense . |
| 3 | McGowan vanished with a couple they 'd brought home in the car . |
| 4 | They 'd talked little on the way back , Delaney desperately trying to find another reason , however unlikely , for Connors not briefing him fully . |
| 5 | In fact , they 've gone right to the top . |
| 6 | Yeah cos since they 've done away with the log book . |
| 7 | They 've marched straight into the vestal virgins ' changing tent . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've stopped right in the entrance . ’ |
| 9 | And they 've written fondly about the Sixties : |
| 10 | Liz Clifton the gallery organiser says the work is very skilled and they 've looked all over the country to find things . |
| 11 | Thousands of Poles settled here after the last war , but they 've worked hard over the years to keep in touch with their cultural roots . |
| 12 | I presume there are people with second homes who actually have money which they 've put aside for the right property . |
| 13 | So it 's a distance they 've got away from the start . |
| 14 | Erm It 's really only a case of each function sifting through the information that they 've pulled together from the annual report . |
| 15 | And erm I think they 've been I think they 've changed really over the months I think all of us have as well and erm well that 's how it started anyway . |
| 16 | So he had lowered himself to sit beside her and together they had stared wordlessly towards the horizon . |
| 17 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 20 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 21 | They had sifted minutely through the circumstances of her death . |
| 22 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |
| 23 | They had spilled halfway across the road , and although most of them shuffled quickly aside when they saw the car approaching , four boys gathered themselves quickly into a group and remained standing defiantly in its path . |
| 24 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 25 | Then they had stepped together into the unlighted hall . |
| 26 | There was no change in anxiety in the group who had received detailed information ( p=0.20 ) , whereas patients who received a rather superficial explanation of the risks were significantly less anxious afterwards ( p=0.012 ) , particularly if they had scored highly on the baseline anxiety assessment ( fig 1 ; r=0.27 , p=0.05 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | General Hodge reported that the reopening of the Joint Commission was a disappointment for Rhee and the extreme right in that they had campaigned vociferously for the past year against further American-Soviet discussion . |
| 29 | I wish they had done better with the peacockery . |
| 30 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |