Example sentences of "they had [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his farewell speech he announced that he and his wife would be remaining in the capital city as they had grown to love the place and its people . |
| 2 | John wrote to Hanns in June that they had intended to bring a programme of ballets by |
| 3 | They had intended to stay a week . |
| 4 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 5 | Like all juvenile troupes they had to go to court every Monday in a new town to obtain a licence to work . |
| 6 | South of Naples he had once lunched at a restaurant where they had endeavoured to translate the menu into English . |
| 7 | She could n't just leave Steve in the lurch after all they had done to get the business together . |
| 8 | The now ‘ buzzing ’ James ( a week previously they had consented to allow the NME to run their cover story ) went into discussion with The Smiths over a proposed filming of James ' appearance for release in Factory 's video outlet Ikon . |
| 9 | how well had they understood what was required by the review , how adequate was their guidance , how much preliminary discussion there had been and how competent they had felt to conduct a review ; |
| 10 | The defendants had previously encountered Mr. Perot in 1983 when they had sought to negotiate a letting of Caliban to Mr. Perot but the negotiations had broken down . |
| 11 | They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called . |
| 12 | They had planned to photograph the monster at Winchester , Hants , hoping someone would identify his owner . |
| 13 | Even if they had wanted to black the work in support of a NATO ally , they say they had no grounds once Britain began delivering the engines after the Falklands war . |
| 14 | They had wanted to share a supply from nearby Levendale School . |
| 15 | They had hoped to use a tug in an attempt to pull the Bettina Danica off the rocks . |
| 16 | By raising the apparent value of Guinness 's shares in this way , they had hoped to attract the approval of Distillers ' shareholders , who were being offered the inflated Guinness shares in part payment for their Distillers holdings . |
| 17 | They had hoped to find the Pakistani on his way back from night work in the steam laundry , but the Pakistani successfully avoided them . |
| 18 | Miss Worthington often felt it would have been an unendurable sorrow to her parents if they had lived to witness the extent of the deterioration . |
| 19 | On April 25 , Congress ( I ) and the Manipur People 's Party ( MPP ) announced that they had decided to form a coalition government , ending a week-long political crisis . |
| 20 | With the disappearance of the moonlight , they had had to abandon the forest and find the road . |
| 21 | Careful reading showed that at best there was 10 per cent heat unaccounted for , but big numbers appeared because Fleischmann and Pons had ‘ extrapolated to rods 10 cm long ’ ( their actual rod in this example had been only 1.25 cm ) without saying what rule they had used to make the extrapolation from measured to assumed . |
| 22 | They had come to visit the graves of their own dead children . |
| 23 | However , the task of a new nanny was made all the more difficult because the children , bewildered and unhappy , felt that they had come to take the place of their mother . |
| 24 | They had come to see the show and my guilt for neglecting them afterwards was eased by Pam and Kath , also at the show this evening , who entertained them in my absence . |
| 25 | The fact that the cold war lasted so much longer than the economic idyll meant that Americans never adjusted to the fact that , economically , their country had long ceased to be able to deliver the annual increase in prosperity they had come to consider a birthright . |
| 26 | The incident happened at about 3.30pm on Friday , when the pair called at a house in Main Road , Danbury , saying they had come to check the meter . |
| 27 | The process begun under Edward I was continued in July 1333 when , at Halidon Hill , outside Berwick , the English showed that they had learned to coordinate the use of ‘ traditional ’ cavalry with the ‘ new ’ archer force , the combination on this occasion being that of archers and dismounted men-at-arms drawn up in a defensive position which showed what successes a measure of flexibility could bring to an army led by men willing to experiment . |
| 28 | They had promised to see the girls , same time , same place , next week , but both knew that was very unlikely . |
| 29 | The servants had done their best : they had tried to clean the house for his arrival , but their efforts only heightened the destruction Edouard found . |
| 30 | In England they had managed to restrict the horizons of the working class to piecemeal economic goals , to mere trade unionism . |