Example sentences of "they have [adv] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd both jacked in their jobs ( he 's a computer programmer ; she 's a physiotherapist ) and were planning to backpack round the world for a few months . |
| 2 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 3 | You mean to say er i , they 'd only lived in Bournemouth do n't you ? |
| 4 | A cool breeze drifted through the open window , carrying with it the sound of water trickling softly from the old stone fountain they 'd painstakingly renovated in the inner courtyard . |
| 5 | I suppose they 'd all gone in half a minute but it seemed an eternity of fascination and fear to a cringing youth . |
| 6 | Some novelty value because he was the first Russian they 'd ever had in the car , but that was all . |
| 7 | And this Mr was so taken aback , by me going in and asking for a job , and they 'd always advertised in the paper before , that he said , Well , she must want work if she 's gone after it . |
| 8 | Nobody had wanted to be regularly policed as people were abroad , preferring to leave it to the magistrates to swear in special constables as they 'd always done in times of civil disturbance , or use the troops . |
| 9 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 10 | No up where the other 's are , where they 've just hidden in the bushes , I found sum brand new ones on Wednesday or Thur , after we had the heavy rain Why we going this way ? |
| 11 | The Franks have been up mountains and down valleys , floated around idyllic lakes and cruised through the staggeringly beautiful ( see The Prisoner -meets-Brothers Grimm ) town of Salzburg , they 've even mimed in a restaurant hall which provides the definitive ‘ Sound Of Music Dinner Show ’ , during which tourists can dine on ‘ cream-coloured ponies ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ They 've already played in the Northern Intermediate League for under 19s , and they have n't left school yet . |
| 13 | At the store where Vanessa died they say the guidleines endorse procedures they 've already put in practice . |
| 14 | That 's a swizz that one , you get to the end and they 've not got in the pool |
| 15 | But while The Cure have often dabbled , they 've never delved in quite this deep . |
| 16 | But while The Cure have often dabbled , they 've never delved in quite this deep . |
| 17 | Er they 've always lived in South Wigston , all their life . |
| 18 | But of course Stephen knows him much better , he was at college with him , and they 've always kept in touch , in a fairly loose sort of way . |
| 19 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 20 | And there was always hope that the Westward family would see her one day as an elegant lady and be sorry they had n't kept in touch with the child who was after all their own flesh and blood . |
| 21 | They had n't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick . |
| 22 | Well no they were n't really , they were n't they had n't worked in the quarry like like us . |
| 23 | They were then asked to recall the story they had just seen in either sign ( deaf and bilinguals ) or in speech ( hearing people ) . |
| 24 | Only with the development of factions and the growth of the party system did it come about that monarchs found themselves confronted , in Cabinet , by Ministers presenting a united front on matters on which they had previously deliberated in the absence of the monarch . |
| 25 | And I instanced Bob Geldof as someone whose commitment to the problem of hunger had certainly got things done , and inspired millions of people to see ( even if only transiently ) that they could make a contribution to a problem that they had previously held in their minds , albeit not very consciously , as ‘ not mine ’ and ‘ hopeless ’ . |
| 26 | When on 5 September the Lords Lieutenant of the four most northerly counties were ordered to make their respective militias ready for immediate service , it emerged that neither Northumberland nor Durham had been reimbursed by central government for the money they had previously spent in keeping the force mustered , while the authorities in Cumberland admitted candidly : ‘ T is so long since the militia was raised that we are apprehensive the arms are either lost or in bad order . ’ |
| 27 | The urban poor tried valiantly to give to their dead a dignity they had scarcely known in life ; but the attempt often proved unavailing . |
| 28 | Supper was as lavish as they had yet had in Scotland : ‘ A large dish of minced beef collops , a large dish of fricassee of fowl , I believe a dish called fried chicken or something like it , a dish of ham or tongue , some excellent haddocks , some herrings , a large bowl of rich milk , frothed , as good a bread-pudding as I ever tasted , full of raisin and lemon or orange peel , and sillabubs made with port wine and in sillabub glasses . |
| 29 | It turned out that they had instead invested in an airline which never took off , a college that had no students , and a luxury yacht . |
| 30 | He had meant to point out to John le Grant that they had both engaged in extremely rough play at Trebizond , and if he chose to carry out another war contract , he was not doing it blindfold . |