Example sentences of "they had [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |
| 2 | And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one . |
| 3 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 4 | By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 5 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 6 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 7 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 8 | They had discovered it in the bed last night when one of them had found themselves lying on it , and it had been pitched out into the darkness . |
| 9 | When someone discovered something , they had to explain it to the others , and this reinforced their own understanding . |
| 10 | In 1899 , when the New York , New Haven , and Hartford Company had built their magnificent new station at Providence , Rhode Island , they had planned it without a train-shed . |
| 11 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 12 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 13 | His father had wounded another bull in the same herd , but not mortally , and although they had tracked it by a faint blood trail for an hour , in the end , to the senator 's ill-concealed irritation , they had been forced to abandon the search . |
| 14 | They had relayed it through the Royalbion representative there , Jim Fletcher . |
| 15 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 16 | ‘ When they had read the publicity material offering help for the recently bereaved they had read it as an opportunity to be out and meet people again . |
| 17 | And they had to park it in a a , an alley on the side . |
| 18 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |
| 19 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 20 | As we have seen , repeal feminists had not been opposed to moral disciplining but they had promoted it through the more ‘ feminine ’ domain of voluntary agencies , attacking the statist solutions of male professionals . |
| 21 | We happen to know from the historian Livy that a city called Morgantina was settled by the Romans with a group of Spaniards who were fighting on their side in Sicily , after they had captured it from the Carthaginians in 211BC , and the coins thereby enabled the site to be identified as that of Morgantina . |
| 22 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |