Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction . |
| 2 | But at least he had released her from that disturbing contact with his wide , strong chest and firm encircling arms , and the physical contact between them had brought one thing home to her very clearly — such a thing must definitely not happen again , or these next months would be utterly impossible . |
| 3 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 4 | The sentences of many of them had expired 17 years ago . |
| 5 | By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | At first they had sat directly opposite him , but as the train travelled through the subterranean tunnel one of them had moved three seats to his left . |
| 7 | Neither of them had breakfasted that morning . |
| 8 | A survey of Aberdeen University students conducted by Peter McKellar showed that about two thirds of them had experienced these sensations , which were slightly more often auditory sensations than visual ones . |
| 9 | At the end of that time , each one of them had experienced unpleasant symptoms ; some became hostile and argumentative ; some had panic attacks and nightmares ; all of them found their attention span had grown shorter and they were finding it more difficult to remember things . |
| 10 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 11 | More thoughtful than either of them had seemed last night . |
| 12 | Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work . |
| 13 | A couple of them had produced flaming torches from nowhere and were brandishing them with all the zeal of a party of drunken Transylvanian peasants storming Castle Frankenstein during an electrical storm . |
| 14 | Some of them had abandoned front rooms and virtually none opened front windows . |
| 15 | Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ? |
| 16 | Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment . |
| 17 | Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet . |
| 18 | One of them had had white hair or , Matthew had remarked , it might have been a wig . |
| 19 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 20 | Now , I believe it to be true that before this tour — with one exception — none of you had known each other . |
| 21 | Julia , Ruth & I did this between us , but none of us had had any experience running the projectors , sound or lighting equipment beforehand . |
| 22 | If either of us had had any sense we 'd have realised from the start something like this had happened . |
| 23 | But they were all quite delightful fellows about the same age as most of the airmen pupils , and we seemed to fit in very well with each other ; although most of us had spent several years in the RAF the acting pilot officers had only spent , say , a couple of months . |
| 24 | I mean he she was going on that tape about she had to replace some things . |
| 25 | The real pioneer of the Italian monodic style in Germany was one of his pupils , Johann Nauwach ( c. 1595–c. 1630 ) , who like him had spent some years in Italy . |
| 26 | and you ended with you had to do little squares and the you put your fing finger through it there 's nothing nothing on the you do n't catch the material down at all |
| 27 | The wildness and stubborn valour in her had become real strength and it surprised him . |
| 28 | But I also remembered that André Gide 's letters to me had shown this tendency very clearly . |
| 29 | The nature of the Church and its tradition were central to the unfinished business from Vatican I ; Modernism and the Roman reaction to it had left serious questions about the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible and about the development of doctrine ; the Liturgical Movement was already revealing both the need for major pastoral renewal and a vision of what its fruits could be , not merely inside the Catholic Church but also in its ecumenical relations . |
| 30 | In our example , after the first transaction AB was long in dollars as it had acquired additional dollars and short in DMs as it had sold part of its DM balance to a customer . |