Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I wanted my old friend to be there ; I prayed for nothing to have changed .
2 Rumours about them had circulated for several years but this was the first time they had been linked by a named source — former US ambassador Lewis Fields .
3 On the other hand , there is also the view that art-objects are different from all other human artefacts and phenomena in that judgements about them have to refer partly to the medium and form of that artefact .
4 For all the familiarity of Degas ' bronze ballet-dancers , racehorses and nudes , the big questions about them have remained unanswered , even unasked ; when exactly were they made ?
5 SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised .
6 Whilst in Russia he had been in contact with representatives of the Russian Bible Society , and through them had learned of the monitorial system of schoolteaching pioneered by Lancaster and Bell in Britain .
7 She realized that the mechanics of his deceitful nature would function whatever he truly felt , that the conveyor-belt of lies would continue to be fed even when the demand for them had ceased to exist .
8 they , they had to improve the productivity from the land and im well not productivity , just efficiency generally , and that how that it would n't have made economic sense for them to have gone straight for socialism .
9 ‘ We do not have too many Woosnams , ’ said Mr Schofield , ‘ but we do have a lot of Fehertys and Montgomeries and for them to have survived one of the greatest tests is testimony to how strong we are becoming . ’
10 as if the police , or anyone else , will think there must be something wrong with them for them to have got such letters in the first place . ’
11 find it had been better for them to have left their in the bank !
12 Filgueira suggests that , since the major educational developments have taken place so recently , it may be too soon for them to have brought about greater reorganisation in society .
13 The monks ' cells , just visible through the windows of the women 's dormitories , lay 500 yards away , far enough for them to have required a telescope and searchlights if disturbance had been on their minds .
14 It came as some surprise to the board when they were informed that , although it seemed unreasonable for them to have to know what was going on , they could be made liable for the damage .
15 They are distributed along the shorelines in innumerable enclaves ( sensu Crisp , 1 978 ) * many of which must have been isolated for long enough ( since the sea level rose to its present height after the retreat of the last ice sheet ) for them to have evolved local forms to suit the particular selective influences of their habitats .
16 There are frequent outcrops of red sandstone and these are sufficiently soft for them to have needed to be reinforced with sections of red brickwork in many places .
17 There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’
18 There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’
19 Ever since , work with and for them has filled their lives .
20 With the demise of the traditional industrial landscapes nostalgia for them has grown .
21 Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s .
22 The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers .
23 Hip replacements were once a rarity : now they can be carried out easily and the call for them has escalated .
24 They nosed at their deep straw , sampled the hay , straddled out their legs and peed , then settled their noses into the food buckets , which Mr Bean and Nutty between them had prepared .
25 She and Ellen between them had turned out the dining-room , giving it extra spit and polish because of Christmas .
26 ‘ And , during all this time , when Stalin was doing all these terrible things , ’ he bawled , ‘ what were you doing ? ’ pointing an accusing finger at Georgy Malenkov , Vyacheslav Molotov , Lazar Kaganovich , Georgy Zhukov , Mikhail Suslov , Anastas Mikoyan and Kliment Voroshilov , the great mandarins on the platform , who between them had ruled Mother Russia under Stalin for the previous quarter of a century .
27 By the time they sat down to eat , much of the tension between them had eased .
28 Preston sometimes thought that Mother Bernie and William between them had ruined whatever chance he 'd ever had of a normal sex life .
29 The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary .
30 William Joyce and the Communists between them had seen to that .
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