Example sentences of "had [verb] them [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old retainer who had received them on their first visit tried to help but Cranston pushed him gently away , saying it was a holiday and besides he was here at Sir Richard 's request to pursue his inquiries privately . |
| 2 | Yet the Han had destroyed all that they had once been — had severed them from their cultural roots as simply and as thoroughly as a gardener might snip the stem of a chrysanthemum . |
| 3 | She had seen them on their expensive horses , swooping across country , confident in the saddle . |
| 4 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 5 | When Pat had told them of his new orders he said to his wife , ‘ You 'll have your lad home again , Julia , however it goes with , these letters he 's had . |
| 6 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 7 | It had brought them in their hundreds , in their thousands , in their tens of thousands along this track . |
| 8 | The unimaginable heat and weight of Fenna had pressed the ooze in the cave , pressed so hotly and heavily that the molecules of mud were squeezed apart , breaking up into carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms , and his weight had compressed the carbon atoms into diamond crystals , and more and more diamonds until his hoard was a lure to garish youths , who had toiled up to his cave and exchanged riddles and blows with him , but when he had fixed them with his ancient evil little eyes , they retreated abashed to sing his praises . |
| 9 | Our friends told him that they were sure nobody had followed them since our last meeting . |
| 10 | There were candles and matches on a ledge just inside the front door where she had left them on her last visit , for Lydia was in fact a sufficiently practical person and not the ass she sometimes chose to appear . |
| 11 | Harriet had put them in her smaller guest-room which had a double bed . |
| 12 | She had reached the landing by this stage of her deliberations , remarking , as she did so , that the fitted carpet , which had covered them in her own time , had gone . |
| 13 | ‘ Tarts ’ was how she had described them in her own mind . |