Example sentences of "[prep] they have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | find it had been better for them to have left their in the bank ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 15 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 16 | Ever since , work with and for them has filled their lives . |
| 17 | With the demise of the traditional industrial landscapes nostalgia for them has grown . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The fact that a majority did vote for them has shifted the balance of power back towards the reformers . |
| 20 | Hip replacements were once a rarity : now they can be carried out easily and the call for them has escalated . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She and Ellen between them had turned out the dining-room , giving it extra spit and polish because of Christmas . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | By the time they sat down to eat , much of the tension between them had eased . |
| 25 | Preston sometimes thought that Mother Bernie and William between them had ruined whatever chance he 'd ever had of a normal sex life . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | William Joyce and the Communists between them had seen to that . |
| 28 | Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction . |
| 29 | ‘ What happens now ? ’ she finally asked when the silence between them had become stretched to breaking-point . |
| 30 | Then the traffic between them had thickened and he 'd disappeared . |