Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , he said by now they had begun to get on each other 's nerves . |
| 2 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 3 | She made a deliberate effort to relax : they would both have blown up if they had had to sit like that all evening , she thought . |
| 4 | But it was not the warmth of the night which kept him awake , nor the hectic business of the day in the office , where they had had to deal with all the additional pressures which the murder had brought to the diocese . |
| 5 | It may have been dropped during the run-in to opening in 1692 , to spare the first-night audience too long a wait for the music they had paid to hear in this long-expected opera ; for it can perfectly well be done without . |
| 6 | Constance and Monsieur de Levantiére suddenly realised how much they had come to rely upon each other in the time that she had worked there . |