Example sentences of "they had [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had run for the woods in what they stood up in . |
| 2 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 3 | In origin these were scraps of waste wood for fuel , and by the mid seventeenth century they had grown into a form of wage supplementation . |
| 4 | ‘ They had broken through the spell-wall . |
| 5 | Some were eating , and Ruth guessed that they had broken into the food supplies they had brought for the voyage . |
| 6 | On July 13 another five Cubans were turned away after they had broken into the residence of the Czechoslovak chargé d'affaires and temporarily taken him hostage . |
| 7 | His successor , Majorian , is unlikely to have gained the support of the Burgundians in 458 , when he drove them out of the lands which they had received with the approval of the Gallo-Roman senators . |
| 8 | Mr. S. Walker left a note for the Board of Guardians expressing thanks for their kind and courteous hearing when his group had been interviewed on the subject of the unemployed marchers , and for the treatment they had received at the institution . |
| 9 | This was intended to help them return to civilian life until they round employment and , to conform with the allowances they had received in the services , this sum included additions for dependants . |
| 10 | And King Bucar and the other Kings were so greatly dismayed that they never checked the reins till they had ridden into the sea ; and the company of the Cid rode after them , smiting and slaying and giving them no respite ; and they smote down so many that it was marvellous , for the Moors did not turn their heads to defend themselves . |
| 11 | Artemis 's father broke the silence now and then by humming tunelessly to himself , but he never spoke another word , not even after they had ridden into the yard and handed their horses over to Jenkins . |
| 12 | When they had emerged into the station 's corridors , Ace had stood alone , her arms crossed and her lips tight , occasionally cursing as an android nudged her . |
| 13 | They had emerged into the street and looked across at the overalled figure and the patch of wall on which he was working . |
| 14 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 15 | Three women in nylon overalls sat at a table eating the food they had prepared for the canteen lunch . |
| 16 | ‘ See you tomorrow , then , Cavell , ’ she confirmed an arrangement they had made during the course of the evening , ignoring Luke now but still acutely conscious of his attention as she thanked the Estwicks again and departed with Florian and Nicky . |
| 17 | He was quite likely to forget the agreement they had made about the night watchman and , given the slightest excuse , batter the old boy . |
| 18 | Another criticism generally expressed was that headhunters , having approached a candidate and then been turned down , did not hesitate to make the most of the contact they had made despite the rejection and go on to ask , ‘ Well , can you recommend someone who would be interested ? ’ |
| 19 | Their store rooms were crammed with piles of objects , from furniture to fencing , and some of the corridors were blocked with the mounds of things they had made over the years . |
| 20 | Whatever the case , the alliance which they had made with the family of L'Isle jourdain ( closely related to the Duèse clan ) , stood them in good stead with the Avignon papacy until John XXII 's death in 1334 . |
| 21 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 22 | For those children going straight to foster families , without even the support of the friends they had made on the journey , natural feelings had to be forced down as adjustments to a new environment and a new language were made . |
| 23 | Statements they had made to the police would be submitted . |
| 24 | The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such , more like crustaceans , specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature , but still clinging to their old habitat , sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore . |
| 25 | On the one hand some teachers saw the process as a hindrance — as something they had to do for the LEA and which would have little consequence for themselves . |
| 26 | Arthur found the reasons for this unfathomable , but took it that they had to do with a comparison to his own looks . |
| 27 | They had pleaded with the bankruptcy judge to close down Eastern last autumn , but instead he allowed it to remain airborne and continue to run down its cash resources . |
| 28 | With all the technological genius that can be raised in the USA to produce a B-1 supersonic bomber , they had to settle for a cruising speed of 1.25 times the speed of sound while the routine Concorde bus service across the Atlantic ticks over steadily at fully twice the speed of sound — and anyone who can afford to buy a ticket can experience it . |
| 29 | In return for his family settlement he had agreed to be reconciled to the Poitevin rebels and make good the losses which they had suffered since the beginning of the war . |
| 30 | In May 1952 an Equalisation of Burdens Act provided compensation payments to refugees for the losses they had suffered as a result of the war . |