Example sentences of "they had [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point was to fire fast to persuade the French that they had run into a strong picquet line . |
| 2 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 3 | They had run into a few mobs of scuffling Haitians , but fortunately , they were mostly without firearms and so the Doctor and Howard had been able to drive through them , sending the mobs scurrying out of their way . |
| 4 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 5 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 6 | She was brutally assaulted by her brother 's friends , as they had turned into a frenzied mob . |
| 7 | The van jerked forward but he managed to keep the engine from stalling and within seconds they had turned into a sharp bend and the grotesque crater was no longer visible in the rear view mirror . |
| 8 | Instead , they had stumbled into a veritable snake pit . ) |
| 9 | Wigan began so explosively that they had raced into a 34–0 lead within a mere 20 minutes as they ran in six memorable tries . |
| 10 | Her brother Mr Bhatti , of Lawrence Street , Dundee , told Lord Osborne that under their faith a couple were not considered to be married until they had gone through a religious ceremony before a Mullah . |
| 11 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 12 | They had not gone far , when they had stepped into a small clearing . |
| 13 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 14 | They had accepted their invitations only in order to disrupt the proceedings , as they had done on a previous occasion in 1953 . |
| 15 | Railways , Spearman went on , had the power to break local strikes , as they had done in a recent coal strike in the United States , and the operating officers and freight-yard superintendents took on a military-style power . |
| 16 | The London merchants of this period do not , however , represent a closely connected group of families as they had done in an earlier age : the civic upper class was constantly being renewed , either as families died out , or as successful men moved out from the city to the country . |
| 17 | However , by 1884 even his timid wife believed in his affluence as they had moved into a pleasant merchant 's house in Didsbury where their youngest children , Walter and Jessie , were born . |
| 18 | The patients were asked to keep a record of all foods they had eaten during a typical midweek day and during a typical weekend day , once every three month period . |
| 19 | They had asked for a greater number of " peacekeeping forces " to be sent , although Sahnoun on Aug. 12 was to emphasize that the proposed deployment was not to be regarded as a peacekeeping operation , but was to protect food distribution . |
| 20 | The leader of the MPs ' delegation , Sir Rhodes Boyson , the former local government minister , said afterwards that they had asked for an extra £650m to offset the sums which some local councils will have to raise in poll tax to the pay their contribution to the nation-wide poll tax safety net . |
| 21 | Somewhere between the time when they had fallen into an exhausted sleep and when she had woken to this grey dawn , all the joy and magic of what they had shared had faded , and she had been overcome by doubts . |
| 22 | Once they had to stop at a red light , and they heard Donald whimpering . |
| 23 | Dr Bob Tait in presenting the cup complemented all the teams on the high standard of their project presentations which they had completed over a six week period . |
| 24 | They had stopped on a small rise , at Bernice 's insistence , to compare stories and devise plans . |
| 25 | The first song The Wedding Present played to the world was ‘ Will You Be Up There ? ’ which they had earmarked as a potential single . |
| 26 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |
| 27 | The emotions of like and dislike are just as broad as if they had arisen from a total survey of the car . |
| 28 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 29 | What they had achieved with a few weeks of supplementary feeding was remarkable . |
| 30 | It was as if they had landed on an alien planet , his fear that of awakening the denizens , giant and menacing . |