Example sentences of "they have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I need to know who your customers are , what orders they have placed in the past and why they no longer wish to trade with you . |
| 2 | Not to allow voters a referendum in Britain would be to ‘ betray the trust … they have placed in us ’ . |
| 3 | Parents have to trust that what they have taught in earlier years and , ideally , been able to demonstrate in their own relationship together , will have provided patterns to be followed . |
| 4 | Most people are likely to judge the reforms on how long they have to wait for treatment — the issue behind the ‘ Jennifer 's ear ’ controversy during the election campaign . |
| 5 | They demand more resources for the school in their areas : they complain vociferously if they have to wait for their operations ; they demand that the state intervene to subsidise the price of the rail tickets from their commuter homes to their work . |
| 6 | The parasites will be blasted a hundred times for the indignities they have inflicted on us ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Dear God , we beseech ye , visit the reactive wrath of their own foulness upon those nasty wee buggers in the Khmer Rouge in general , and upon their torturers , and their leader Pol Pot , in particular ; may each iota of pain they have inflicted on the people of their country — heathen or not — rebound upon their central nervous system with all the agony they originally inflicted upon their victims . |
| 8 | Since dropping communism , they have gone through three stages in thinking about security . |
| 9 | But the other brachiopods have been far from evolutionarily inactive — they have gone through several major proliferations and diversifications , and suffered dramatic major extinctions as well . |
| 10 | But they have gone through an experience of doubt which has purged them forever of the desire to doubt without finding an answer . |
| 11 | As for the Kurds , they have gone through another bad year and it remains to be seen whether they can be preserved from more of them . |
| 12 | It is a touching scene that every parent can immediately identify with because they have gone through the same ritual with their own children . |
| 13 | They have gone through privatization and ceased being Civil Servants and gone out into the cold and now they are suffering this blow , so they do , I think , deserve the most generous possible treatment . |
| 14 | It is invariably one whereby people have applied for those grants , they have gone through all the normal assessment criteria , which apply to any other art form , and if we feel that they adequately cover all those sort of areas then we respond , but as public body we have to be aware that groups , in applying to us , must fulfil the conditions that we lay down . |
| 15 | After they have gone to the ball , Cinderella , with a giggle , picks up her broom and gives it the same lesson , using it as a partner . |
| 16 | The floors are inexpensively tiled , though they have gone to great lengths to achieve the right effect . |
| 17 | Corporate concern in the US tuna industry has been far more interested in maintaining profits than in saving dolphins , and they have gone to great lengths to protect their commercial interests . |
| 18 | They have gone to Rio to work as maids . |
| 19 | A spokesman said : ‘ They have gone to great lengths to gather information useful to criminals . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ A note has been left at the flat where they lived , advising friends that they have gone to London for a vacation . |
| 21 | People say that they have gone to Switzerland . |
| 22 | Inspector 's Report and the Council 's formal response to his recommendations will be published together after they have gone to committee . |
| 23 | But some Thais are wondering whether they have gone about things in the right way . |
| 24 | whereas other parts they have gone into more detail which is ones they 've gone into more details with |
| 25 | Charles Eldred-Evans , for the Red Cross , said : ‘ Provided they have gone for good , that would be a big step along the road to resolving the problem . |
| 26 | My sister is far more attractive than I am , and as soon as any of my boyfriends have met her , they have gone off me . |
| 27 | ‘ I think the handicapped have every right to go along Skinnergate and High Row , ’ he said , ‘ They have gone along it since the year dot . ’ |
| 28 | From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time . |
| 29 | The crunch game came at the second hurdle when Sudbury toppled the mighty London Welsh at Moorsfield , after which they have gone from strength to strength , bolstered by a refreshing brand of running rugby . |
| 30 | In a lifetime they have gone from a self-assured majority to a beleaguered minority , strangely distanced from the city that has grown up around them . |