Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , FERL will issue a request to the Belgian authorities to consider retaining the licences they had intended to withdraw from community radios . |
| 2 | They had hoped to appeal to Education Secretary Kenneth Clarke to overturn the decision . |
| 3 | Matthies ' group , like ours , was interested in the glycoproteins , which they had shown to increase in synthesis during various forms of more conventional training procedures in rats , and Jork had scanned the biochemical literature to find specific inhibitors of glycoprotein synthesis . |
| 4 | But they had had to operate without anaesthetic and with only limited supplies . |
| 5 | They remained obstinately silent , abject looking as well , the camouflage they had learned to use for safekeeping . |
| 6 | King Edward had used them in Wales as war dogs but later had them killed because , in their blood lust , they had failed to distinguish between friend and foe . |