Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One good way of judging a well-planned interview schedule of the formal type is to ask ‘ Could this schedule be handed over to someone else for analysis without them having to go back to the interviewer to ask what certain answers mean ? ’
2 The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers .
3 Modern technology has seen to that , giving them a machine to make their early morning tea and even an electronic handset to save them having to get out of their chairs in the evening to change the television channel .
4 ‘ I see they 've caught up with him in Huddersfield , ’ Ma said , ‘ that prisoner . ’
5 He proceeded to remind her verbally as she followed him sheepishly out through the dining-room to a wide archway that led to the terrace , though she did n't need this painful reminder of the way they 'd given in to their wild passion every evening in Seville .
6 When they 'd gone through into the lecture hall , I noticed the professor staring after them with a very odd look on his face — a stunned , frozen look .
7 You know and if you 'd seen the size of the temple there were thinking well , come on , and the trouble that they 'd gone through over their history to establish er a capital city with a temple as the main feature , they were not happy about him saying that .
8 As the boat had come round the point they 'd gone up on deck .
9 I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place .
10 She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come .
11 Then they 'd gone in for a look .
12 Without exception they were splattered in paint as if they 'd gone in for action art .
13 The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry .
14 By now , they 'd moved on to Hemingway .
15 When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed .
16 For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would
17 My parents called me Glen after the bandleader who took one too many cross-channel flights Swing was the music they 'd grown up with and courted to .
18 Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets .
19 They 'd climbed down to rocky secluded coves and bathed in crystal-clear waters and picnicked in shady pine forests .
20 With this , well erm I was er after the first two years when I did n't get a referred lead or recommendation cos I , I had this fear in my mind that if I asked for names , they 'd actually not give them and that they would actually then cancel the policy they 'd taken out with me , I actually thought that
21 They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea .
22 Zambia , however , trying to compensate for whatever information they 'd picked up about hir , offered to entertain Nathan for the afternoon so that Roirbak could begin work with Ari .
23 She felt pressured and persuaded her clients to sell out of stocks they 'd picked up from various licensed dealers .
24 Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left .
25 Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected .
26 The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester .
27 I think , I 've heard about it erm one of the new clubs that 's , they 'd opened up in Edinburgh .
28 Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’
29 And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade .
30 ‘ I was frantic that they 'd found out about the flat , where she lived .
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