Example sentences of "had [verb] them [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband 's letter had reached them as soon as they arrived in their summer resting place and had plunged them all into abject misery . |
| 2 | After thoroughly investigating their backgrounds and their political beliefs , he had approached them one by one . |
| 3 | In all there were eleven names , and Duncan had absorbed them all within five minutes . |
| 4 | Gary Penrice and two-goal Les Ferdinand killed off Oldham after Neil Adams and Ian Olney had pulled them level at 2-2 . |
| 5 | The news of the morning broadcast had brought them all to this place , anticipating something like what they were now hearing , which did not make it any better . |
| 6 | Both before , and for long after Maman had left them alone with each other , the useful and interesting occupations Aunt Tossie found , or invented , for her , were always in unhappy contrast with both love and its cold aftermath . |
| 7 | Bowing to the inevitable , Kenya started to remove the controls in 1988 and had eliminated them all by 1990 , except for a few agricultural products like maize . |
| 8 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 9 | The Adoimara had feasted the deputation and then , while they slept , had killed them all except one , who escaped with a shattered arm and numerous wounds . |