Example sentences of "they had [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 2 | There could hardly be a more serious accusation than these particular killings and they had been given renewed publicity by the secretary of state 's broadcast of only four weeks earlier . |
| 3 | He said that even though they had been given advance warning of Sam 's health problems during a scan three months before he was born , nothing prepared them for the shock . |
| 4 | They had been given separate rooms , of course , but liked to gas late into the night , and dress together , and compare clothes and hair and notes . |
| 5 | They had been given special permission to land there , only a short distance from the state fairgrounds at Del Mar , where the 13th final will be held this weekend . |
| 6 | ‘ If the prints were undated or if they had been given younger dates most experts would probably accept them as have made by Homo , ’ said Russell Tuttle from the University of Chicago who has recently analysed casts of the footprints at the invitation of Mary Leakey . |
| 7 | His assailants next told him that they had been given three pounds each ‘ to do you up tonight ’ by the ‘ drug squad ’ detective with whom he was already unpleasantly familiar . |
| 8 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 9 | They had been tossed four feet away . |
| 10 | They had been seated each side of the blazing fire in the drawing-room , but now Martin had sprung to his feet , his voice raised as he repeated , ‘ Done for me ! |
| 11 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 12 | Always the money that had not arrived , always the arrears of pay causing disaffection , and even if they had been sent substantial tallies on regional treasuries or port taxation officers , still the endless complaint that the money simply was not there to meet the bills . |
| 13 | Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent . |
| 14 | I went er , in to check whether these were available last week , just to make sure they were available and , they we , they had been reserved last term but I went to check and , I found so much difficulty finding my way around |
| 15 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 16 | They told him it was a welcome to Petrograd by the revolutionary workers and sailors : they had been roaring one word " Lenin " . |
| 17 | The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years . |
| 18 | They had been stabbed 70 times . |
| 19 | On the following day , Stanley told the Finance Committee of the India Council that they had been offered this site , and pointed out the advantages of buying the land from the Government rather than obtaining a special Act of Parliament . |
| 20 | The following table shows how the repayment period varied for each of the four main samples , once people knew all the cost information , depending on what order they had been shown each set of cost figures . |
| 21 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 22 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 23 | ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’ |
| 24 | Because they had been told that research shows that the teaching of grammar restricts the imagination , imposing a strait-jacket of conventions , they did not realise that it all depends on what kind of grammar is taught and in what contexts . |
| 25 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 26 | " They had been heaping dried brackens and whins , with peats here and there among the pelf , in a line along the trench ; and one struck a light with his flint and fired the pile . |
| 27 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 28 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 29 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
| 30 | However , the spokesman said : ‘ It now looks as though they had been fighting each other and nobody else was involved . ’ |