Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [adv prt] in " in BNC.

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1 The fashion for spas has died out in Britain , but in Germany and Italy there are still spas where people gather to drink the waters and undergo hydrotherapies .
2 Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force .
3 The words had tumbled out in anger .
4 The words had come out in a babble and by the time he had gathered his wits and been able to respond she had put the phone down .
5 When his characters make love — or perform Mr. Lawrence 's equivalent for love-making — and they do nothing else — they not only lose all the amenities , refinements and graces which many centuries have built up in order to make love-making tolerable ; they seem to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution , passing backward beyond ape and fish to some hideous coitus of protoplasm .
6 Since the beginning of the year new shops have opened up in central Belfast and for the first time some are doing well selling avant-garde men 's and women 's clothes .
7 And the bloke told me that twenty five corner shops have closed down in South Bank , which is a tiny area , in ten years .
8 The strong tactics have paid off in the case of the prison officers , who went back to work last week , but there is increasing concern on how to deal with the tax collectors .
9 Older children also sleep in their parents ' room , a pattern which continued in the middle class Bangladeshi families in this sample and those in which the parents had grown up in Britain .
10 My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day .
11 The incidents occurred after tensions had built up in these areas during April between the Croatian authorities and Serbian militants , exacerbated by the presence of the Serbian-dominated JNA which had entered Kijevo on April 29 [ see p. 38163 ] .
12 The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote .
13 The report stated that while the number of new settlements had levelled off in recent years , the Jewish population in the occupied territories was growing by as much as 10 per cent annually .
14 I like the way the lambs have settled down in the field have n't they ?
15 The other side of the coin is that some of the manufacturing jobs lost in high wage countries have turned up in low wage countries .
16 Scores of multinational companies have set up in the industrial parks on either side of the giant bridge that links Penang island to the mainland .
17 These squatter settlements have sprung up in great abundance , generally in undesirable and inaccessible areas , which are unsuitable for standard building .
18 With the breakdown of the administration , crime syndicates have come up in a big way .
19 And few bids have ended up in bankruptcy .
20 It is indisputable , however , that much of the money made available by the EEC and by national governments for price support ( guidance and guarantee ) as well as for structural purposes has ended up in the richer regions .
21 In real terms the average incomes of lone parents have fallen — if their incomes had gone up in line with the Retail Price Index then they would have been about £12 per week higher in 1989 .
22 Before that the village 's only successful days had occurred back in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when it was a centre of the Basque whaling trade .
23 About two million workers had come out in support of the miners , a number which represented almost half the total which the TUC could have called out in support of the miners — and more than it did .
24 By January , Soviet troops had cracked down in Lithuania , Soviet troop withdrawals from central Europe had ominously stopped .
25 The city 's funeral barons had turned out in an unprecedented expression of their admiration and their sympathy , and Creed took full advantage of the fact .
26 er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be
27 All the veins had closed up in me arms and legs and me feet and groin as well .
28 ( This tale has a special popularity in the UK , where the vehicle in question is always a Mini , though versions have cropped up in Australia and the USA . )
29 The clothing and electronics factories have closed down in the Northeast , and the shifts specially designed for mothers , the part-time and twilight , were the first to go .
30 In that case of the day sir because the statements have to read out in full .
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