Example sentences of "they had [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 2 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 3 | They had witnessed a steady growth in circulation and were well satisfied with their achievements , even hopeful that things would improve . |
| 4 | They further said that they had received no formal complaint from Ahmed Ashraf . |
| 5 | They were told by Jesus not to speculate about the time when God would bring in the kingdom in all its fullness , but , once they had received the Holy Spirit , they were to witness to Jesus in Jerusalem , Judaea , Samaria , and throughout the world ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 6 | But if they did n't speak with tongues how did Simon know that they had received the Holy Spirit ? |
| 7 | People would believe that it was unnecessary to dispute the matter and that they had received an additional benefit for the injury that had been forced upon them . |
| 8 | Despite a reference to the full accounts and their availability it did not , however , explicitly indicate that they had received an unqualified audit report . |
| 9 | There they had joined a large group of sect heavies , some of whom were armed . |
| 10 | They had joined a Gordian knot of vans , taxis , and automobiles that was inching forward at a pace that had set that little muscle in his jaw to knotting and unknotting . |
| 11 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
| 12 | We were looking forward to some exercise of rowing , but typically when we arrived , we found they had prepared a gondola-like craft ( of a kind emperors used to go in ) on which we were meant to sit and be gently punted around while we sedately drank tea . |
| 13 | One important feature of the ground battle for which the Allied forces at all levels were profoundly grateful was the fact that the chemical warfare attacks for which they had prepared the protective equipment described in the San Francisco Chronicle of 19 February 1991 never materialized . |
| 14 | About one quarter of primary and secondary schools indicated that they had prepared an explicit statement of the health education aims of the school for both staff and pupils . |
| 15 | A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms : |
| 16 | On Jan. 17 the police also reported that they had uncovered a neo-Nazi organization , three of whose members were arrested and another six questioned on suspicion of plotting the overthrow of the government . |
| 17 | Detectives announced yesterday they had uncovered a drug-making factory in London 's Highgate capable of producing a massive quantity of tablets . |
| 18 | But a few minutes later they said they had detained the wrong woman and the real suspect was still at large . |
| 19 | Indeed , it was in a mood of celebration rather than panic that the garotters were actually toasted for having ‘ taken upon themselves the duty of upsetting a whole fabric of amiable delusions ’ concerning the reformation of criminals , and further congratulated that through their ‘ inexcusable crime ’ they had made a salutary impact on public opinion and ‘ created a general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ . |
| 20 | General Motors of America believed they had made a major breakthrough into the British market in 1985 when they persuaded Foster Yeoman to buy four specially constructed 3,300hp locomotives to haul heavy stone traffic from their Merehead quarry to locations in the South East . |
| 21 | Pushing it towards the door they could hardly contain their excitement until Endill stopped in his tracks , realising they had made a terrible mistake . |
| 22 | One look was sufficient to make them realise they had made a dreadful mistake . |
| 23 | Coun leader Arthur Taylor told the full council yesterday that they had made a sensible deal with the bus companies which could save the free pass scheme . |
| 24 | Evidence that they had made a sound choice came with the £36 bill for the 6,000 mile service . |
| 25 | The married women in the room looked righteous as though they had made the unselfish decision . |
| 26 | Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre . |
| 27 | But at half-past seven the next morning they knew they had made the right decision . |
| 28 | So when I stumbled against him and threw my arms round his neck he just stood there , unmoving except for a slight step backwards to keep his balance — though I thought I felt his hands touch my waist for just an instant as if they had made an automatic move to hold me which he had cancelled . |
| 29 | Goldthorpe and his team ( 1969 ) wanted to study manual workers with high incomes to see whether they had developed a middle-class way of life . |
| 30 | Nothing remotely in common , yet they had developed a warm regard for each other . |