Example sentences of "had [vb pp] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 2 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 3 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 4 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 5 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 6 | The families along the river were closely related and inter-marriage had fused them into a larger unit . |
| 7 | Irritated with herself for reminding him , Julia turned back to face the front and said nothing more until Bill had dropped them outside a big yellow house on the edge of Fiesole . |
| 8 | Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically . |
| 9 | The drawings were purchased by the museum from William Proby , whose family had owned them from an early date , for £310,000 with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund , the National Art Collections Fund and other benefactors . |
| 10 | Every officer must have noticed the figurines , yet no-one had considered them as a possible murder weapon . |
| 11 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 12 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 13 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 14 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 15 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 16 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 17 | They had bought them in the local sex shop in the hope of saving the money they would normally spend on E. So what were they like ? |
| 18 | The teacher had helped them with the capital letter to begin the sentence and the full stop at the end . |
| 19 | They behaved as though the European exchange rate mechanism had equipped them with a monetary policy and had left no point in discussing the subject further . |
| 20 | He was still shuffling videos on the shelves as if having suddenly noticed that someone — herself , probably — had replaced them in the wrong order . |
| 21 | In the mid-1950s he had introduced them to the Naval College in Rhode Island . |
| 22 | A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet . |
| 23 | Mrs Fletcher had brought them round the previous night . |
| 24 | Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road . |
| 25 | Their one real clue from the Executive killings had led them to a small Ping Tiao cell in the Mids fifty li south of Bremen . |
| 26 | Most commentators attributed Smith 's acquittal to inconsistencies in Bowman 's evidence , to an ineffective performance by prosecutor Moria K. Lasch , and to the Dec. 2 ruling by Judge Mary E. Lupo to exclude the testimony of three other women who claimed that Smith had assaulted them during the 1980s . |
| 27 | Customs had waved them through the green section . |
| 28 | They had converted them into a fine house , which had been requisitioned by the Germans : the officer in charge was a Captain Foghel who , by the time we were taken to Tabiano , had already been transferred to Bologna . |
| 29 | And it came to him , with a cold steely horror chilling the bloodstream as if from a lethal injection — he had left them in the stolen mini . |
| 30 | We had taken them with the aforementioned pinch of salt . |