Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 2 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 3 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 4 | They were told by Jesus not to speculate about the time when God would bring in the kingdom in all its fullness , but , once they had received the Holy Spirit , they were to witness to Jesus in Jerusalem , Judaea , Samaria , and throughout the world ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 5 | But if they did n't speak with tongues how did Simon know that they had received the Holy Spirit ? |
| 6 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
| 7 | Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands announced in May that they had joined the 1987 Missile Technology Control Regime ( MTCR ) which committed industrialized countries to restricting missile proliferation in the developing world . |
| 8 | One important feature of the ground battle for which the Allied forces at all levels were profoundly grateful was the fact that the chemical warfare attacks for which they had prepared the protective equipment described in the San Francisco Chronicle of 19 February 1991 never materialized . |
| 9 | A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms : |
| 10 | But a few minutes later they said they had detained the wrong woman and the real suspect was still at large . |
| 11 | Professor Andrew Lyne and two colleagues , Matthew Bailes and Setnam Shemar , astronomers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom , announced in the British science journal Nature of July 24 that they had made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system . |
| 12 | The married women in the room looked righteous as though they had made the unselfish decision . |
| 13 | Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre . |
| 14 | But at half-past seven the next morning they knew they had made the right decision . |
| 15 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 16 | Thirty-seven minutes earlier they had readjusted the parabolic antenna on the roof of the caravan , changing its direction 180 degrees from southern Spain to the southern North Sea . |
| 17 | They had crossed the dusty lane into an orchard . |
| 18 | The Spanish police also maintained that they had kept the suspected terrorists ' movements under close surveillance and maintained a constant flow of information on them to British officials in Gibraltar . |
| 19 | Certainly the Communists ' role since 1941 had expunged memories of the Hitler-Stalin Pact period when they had opposed the French war effort . |
| 20 | Flaherty and MacKnobb had produced thin gold and silver and emerald paint with which they had coloured the fine charcoal designs and the end result was really rather good . |
| 21 | They had visited the fifteenth-century pavilion , which had taken them back to the world of 1492 and immersed them in an era that led up to the discovery of America . |
| 22 | They had escaped the witch-hunt purges of Europe and had an entirely different significance in the lives of the Eastern peoples . |
| 23 | Over the years they had attended the same victuallers ' functions , and on every occasion Harcourt had kept very much to his own table . |
| 24 | Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver . |
| 25 | The ministers concerned must have congratulated themselves that politically at least they had done the right thing by ignoring the environmental bodies and promising eight-lane motorways and an expenditure of £12.4 billion to ensure that 1992 does not leave Britain stuck in a permanent traffic jam . |
| 26 | The couple thought they had done the right thing by paying £140 for a house-buyer 's survey , which had given the house a clean bill of health with only some minor exceptions . |
| 27 | His very short statements , and constant insistence that they had done the right thing , made it difficult , if not impossible , to reflect the point of the view of ‘ the other side ’ — the side of the authorities , who then complained that the parents had too much publicity and had the full support of the press and media . |
| 28 | To this day Girls who worked in the 1920s would not consider others to be proper Tillers unless they had done the inevitable Paris stint . |
| 29 | The fields became parched and brown and the cattle required additional concentrate feed much as they had done the previous year . |
| 30 | as if to confirm that they had rejected the old emphasis on local political organizations , the new studies gave themselves a new title . |