Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was brutally assaulted by her brother 's friends , as they had turned into a frenzied mob . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 8 | Instead , they had stumbled into a veritable snake pit . ) |
| 9 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 10 | They had ridden to the far end of the long gravel ridge . |
| 11 | They had invested for the long term , if not in imperial unity ( and significantly , nothing was said at Worms about emperorship or empire ) , then in the coexistence of Lothar and Charles in the regnum francorum . |
| 12 | Throughout the 1930s Hollywood was to make films condemning various abuses and malpractices in the American system and there were always to be films which clung to the conventions of the city film as they had emerged in the early part of the decade . |
| 13 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |
| 14 | By the mid-1920s they no longer had the harsh appearance that they had developed in the immediate pre-war years … |
| 15 | They had known each other for so many years , since they had trained at the Royal Victoria , Belfast , that there were no secrets or illusions between them and she was able to tell Mick all her problems . |
| 16 | The Greenham women complained of police brutality but , as Johnson points out , ‘ The press portrayed the blockading women as screaming harridans , contrasting us with what they had presented as the nice , well-meaning middle-class mothers and grandmothers the day before ’ ( Johnson , 1989:167 ) . |
| 17 | They had suffered in the Civil War from requisitioning by Red , White , and Green armies , and to some extent from the Bolshevik-inspired kombedy ( committees of poor peasants ) . |
| 18 | They had been allowed in , they had gone past the uniformed security , and then had had to sit and wait in a grey-painted lobby , watched by the plainclothes minders , before the man had come down for them . |
| 19 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 20 | By the 16th century they had gone to the other extreme and were namby-pamby , play-acting affairs without genuine combat . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They had not gone far , when they had stepped into a small clearing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In a wartime bulletin of 1942 , staff were advised to urge customers to bring their own receptacles for food shopping , as they had done during the Great War . |
| 25 | Moreover , Macmillan managed to ensure that the Americans did not impose a dual key system as they had done with the RAF-manned Thors . |
| 26 | They had accepted their invitations only in order to disrupt the proceedings , as they had done on a previous occasion in 1953 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The electrical power workers , however , did not respond in the forthright way they had done in the general strike of May 1974 . |
| 29 | He confessed that everyone trusted him now , as they had done in the old days . |
| 30 | Fears of communism had deep roots in the past ( p.6 ) and they had increased as the Cold War developed after 1945 . |