Example sentences of "[noun pl] they have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a legend which had originated with the attempts of Dark Age royal servants to give their masters a lineage as old and distinguished as that of the Western Roman emperors they had displaced continued in the twelfth century to satisfy the needs of new royal families and even of some princely houses . |
| 2 | P'raps they 've gone blackberryin' , he thought and for a fleeting moment he wished that he was with them . |
| 3 | In exchange , Aunt Tossie remembered winners they had ridden , fours and sixes they had hit , centuries they had made , and their handicaps in polo . |
| 4 | For two centuries they had faced Celtic attacks . |
| 5 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 6 | for centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience . |
| 7 | To return to the source of good , evil and neutral ; whatever , in the conflicts referred to , may have been the intentions or hopes of the protagonists , the fact remains that over the centuries they have produced a constant flow of individual human decisions which can be examined and specified as either good , evil or neutral . |
| 8 | Many Koreans were affronted at the liberation of August 1945 being followed by the continued presence of Japanese and of the odious methods they had employed to suppress dissent . |
| 9 | They tried to use the methods they had learned at Harvard until these were vetoed by their new boss . |
| 10 | The Bolsheviks inherited a long tradition of centralist rule from which they had suffered , but whose methods they had imbibed only too deeply . |
| 11 | These views have influenced both the type of data sociologists have collected and the methods they have employed to collect the data . |
| 12 | The methods they have chosen have included the following : |
| 13 | I am delighted therefore to add my congratulations to those honoured by the British Safety Council for the practical steps they have taken to create safer places of work . ’ |
| 14 | He said : ‘ They have told me about these steps they have taken to check this out and I 'm really delighted with their attitude . |
| 15 | The bonus each policyholder will actually get will depend on the reversionary ( or annual ) bonuses they have received to date on the with-profits element of their policies and will probably be paid out as part of the 1993 bonus distribution in February or March 1994 . |
| 16 | It makes an intelligent compendium of this mysterious people 's history and culture , compressed into a serpentine and bewildering suite of quite small rooms and exhibits : their furniture , their costumes , the trades they have practised , the things they have manufactured , their art and religious objects , and so on . |
| 17 | Some of the less professional search firms have been known to treat candidates shoddily , and even the leading firms would admit that a few of the candidates they had encountered would be justified in feeling hard-done-by . |
| 18 | In their turn the males continued to subsist mostly on meat and fish from the animals they had caught . |
| 19 | This is so reminiscent of the way human mobs have all too often treated wild animals they have encountered , that it is just one more reminder of how closely related humans and chimpanzees are . |
| 20 | It does this by sharing something closely identified with its members , the animals they have domesticated by hand , with the encompassing community in a commensal ritual . |
| 21 | But like all armoured animals they have sacrificed flexibility for security and must now be content with a stiffly jointed existence . |
| 22 | On marrying they would travel to their husband 's village and weave from memory simplified versions of the one or two designs they had learned . |
| 23 | You always hear of the 2 goals they had disallowed … so ! ? |
| 24 | But Souness last night stressed that James is not being made a scapegoat for Liverpool 's disastrous start , nor for the eight goals they have conceded in the last two games . |
| 25 | Once students have achieved Compact goals they have gained an entitlement to an offer of employment from a Compact employer . |
| 26 | I do n't think they 'll concede the sort of easy goals they have allowed in past World Cups . ’ |
| 27 | On one of his recent trips they had frightened him so much that he dropped his food and had to watch helplessly while they devoured every last scrap of it . |
| 28 | If they want to cash in their plan , any units they 've got allocated to their fund , they get the bid price . |
| 29 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 30 | This is the third lot of antibiotics they 've given me |