Example sentences of "[subord] they have [adv] done " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numerous men employed as bearers become undertakers , although they have never done anything until they have got the job . |
| 2 | Students spend more years on initial training courses than they have ever done . |
| 3 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 4 | Will they assume that people engage in this ritual because they have always done so and have been conditioned into it ? |
| 5 | Some of our worst fears of prices falling for example in the North , as they have already done in the South , have n't been realised . |
| 6 | The hair , though white now , is still swept back , and , as he nears 83 , the bottom lip protrudes as crossly and the eyes bulge as they have always done . |
| 7 | Most elderly people live , as they have always done , ‘ in the community ’ . |
| 8 | It is possible for parents to go on behaving as they have always done towards their children , without making adjustments as they are needed . |
| 9 | ’ Some of the older staff have reacted by attempting to do the job much as they have always done it , which means , in effect , engaging in various minor acts of deviance from new bureaucratic demands in order to minimize the trouble caused . |
| 10 | And now I realize that people still lie , steal , and fight , just as they have always done , and probably will always do . |
| 11 | As they have always done , |
| 12 | ‘ I thought it was all straightforward , with Moslems cutting Copts ’ throats , as they have always done , and Copts cutting Moslems ' throats , as usual . |
| 13 | Those who act for you must feel confident that you will back them as long as they have genuinely done their best . |