Example sentences of "[subord] they had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I saw a hole in the bottom at the side of it where they had blasted a hole in it in order to sink it . |
| 2 | A Crown lawyer said that Hall had gone to the Co Galway resort of Salthill with a group of friends where they had rented a house for a week last July . |
| 3 | Although they had cost a mint , Aunt Tossie felt they were well worth the money , a fitting background for her darling . |
| 4 | But they sounded more hollow than they had done a year earlier , and were certainly less widespread . |
| 5 | The West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit found recently that , while part-time work was increasing in their area , women were actually being paid a lower percentage of local full-time wages than they had received a decade ago . |
| 6 | When Melinda answered him in fluent Arabic , they all looked at her as if they had seen a ghost , bade us goodnight , and melted away into the darkness again . |
| 7 | Mr Martin stood and asked if they had reached a verdict . |
| 8 | ‘ They were talking as if they had lost a £10 note . |
| 9 | Readers became familiar with their Doppelgangers , as if they had turned a corner and unexpectedly confronted themselves in a mirror . |
| 10 | If they had displayed a disclaimer ( sufficiently bold , precise and compelling ) they would have avoided commission of the offence even without having to rely upon section 24 ( see paragraph 16–11 ) . |
| 11 | It looked as if they had discovered a minefield . |
| 12 | Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now . |
| 13 | It was their own indolence which had landed them with a murder which could probably be explained and might even have been prevented , if they had taken a bit more trouble . |
| 14 | There were lots of hopefuls who would have been journalists if they had pursued a career , or who now wanted to learn . |
| 15 | The Snotlings will not move until they are able to move within 12″ of a friendly Orc or Goblin unit , and if charged by enemy troops they are automatically broken as if they had failed a panic or fear test . |
| 16 | If they had agreed a price the deal would have gone through just as SMS found itself in so much trouble with Volvo [ SMS was forced to resign the $40m Volvo account in early 1991 , after it was discovered the agency was rigging performance advertisements ] . |
| 17 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 18 | It was not until they had rounded a bend in the road , and the echoes of Master Thomas 's good wishes had long since died away , that Isabel managed to pull herself together enough to recall her resolution to put fitzAlan at a safe distance — and keep him there . |
| 19 | He remained silent until they had reached a flight of three stone steps between one lawn and a higher one , where Stephen was waiting . |
| 20 | Hitherto the ichthyostegids risked the desiccation of the unshielded eggs in a dry environment until they had perfected a method of laying them in a slimy , tapioca-like substance . |
| 21 | The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 22 | Because they had taught a topic , it followed that the children had learned it . |
| 23 | ‘ It was a conscious decision to sign to Rough Trade because they had done a lot of good work in the past and right from day one they were our friend which is the most important thing . |
| 24 | He said that France was still shipping the missiles to Argentina because they had signed a contract . |
| 25 | The chorus of televisions was tuned to an American game show in which competing families were leaping up and down and screaming with apparent incontinence because they had won a trip to Disneyworld . |
| 26 | In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking . |
| 27 | I wanted to ask if she had died peacefully , whether they had used a syringe driver , if there 'd been anyone to comfort her . |
| 28 | Although he preferred to train dancers from the age of nine , by the time the pantomime season came he had so many to cast he had to accept adults and teach them after they had finished a day 's work . |
| 29 | After they had talked a while longer , he showed his young visitors out , through the shop . |
| 30 | ‘ What made you decide on a career as a vet ? ’ he asked , after they had passed a man walking an Alsatian by the canal and Robbie had enthused over its fine points . |