Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [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 | South of Naples he had once lunched at a restaurant where they had endeavoured to translate the menu into English . |
| 6 | She could n't just leave Steve in the lurch after all they had done to get the business together . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ; |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They had planned to photograph the monster at Winchester , Hants , hoping someone would identify his owner . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They had wanted to share a supply from nearby Levendale School . |
| 13 | They had hoped to use a tug in an attempt to pull the Bettina Danica off the rocks . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They had hoped to find the Pakistani on his way back from night work in the steam laundry , but the Pakistani successfully avoided them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | With the disappearance of the moonlight , they had had to abandon the forest and find the road . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They had come to visit the graves of their own dead children . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They had promised to see the girls , same time , same place , next week , but both knew that was very unlikely . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In England they had managed to restrict the horizons of the working class to piecemeal economic goals , to mere trade unionism . |
| 29 | The following morning saw me back at the surgery in order to collect not only my screwdriver but also the death certificate , duly signed by two doctors ( yes , they had managed to find the mortuary ) , without which I could not obtain a Registration of Death certificate , without which Nigel could not be cremated . |
| 30 | By July they had managed to sign a nucleus of nine players and re-applied to join the Mid-Counties League . |