Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had Trimalchio 's feast to go on , described by Nero 's mate Petronius , so we had an idea of what they ate , and let me say that it was as much of a surprise to find they had sausages and black pudding as it was to find out they had concrete . |
| 2 | I found out they had a computer in the bottom of the building when I worked in the bank and it started off from that . |
| 3 | And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one . |
| 4 | She described how they had carried their water in those sheepskins , which they call jerbah . |
| 5 | Leitzig pointed to the rows of steel containers submerged in the water , and described how they had been transported to the plant in 100 tonne flasks with walls fourteen inches thick . |
| 6 | The bruises on the neck and face and legs of the widow and her children were still livid on the brown skin as they recounted how they had run a gauntlet of fists and kicks and curses of their neighbours . |
| 7 | She recounted how they had gone up to Master Allingham 's chamber and , finding the door locked , had ordered the workmen from the yard below to force the chamber . |
| 8 | Here you bought things at the door — fish , pies , cakes ; you did n't know where they had been ! |
| 9 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 10 | everybody came in they had |
| 11 | Because you want the right size join what you put in they had n't got any , no more of these |
| 12 | When we first came here they had just bought it . |
| 13 | Erm When Pentecost Day came around they had all met in one room . |
| 14 | They were to remember how they had come : ‘ You must remember all that road by which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness . ’ |
| 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 | ( d ) a number of respondents supported the idea of prohibiting solicitors from acting where they had a personal interest in a transaction , but not where the interest was that of a family member or employee . |
| 17 | Skates were tied on the wrong feet ; some boys were trying to remember when they had last changed their socks ; the smell was incredible . |
| 18 | Detectives announced yesterday they had uncovered a drug-making factory in London 's Highgate capable of producing a massive quantity of tablets . |
| 19 | Executive members of one of the party 's most active branches , Mossend , confirmed yesterday they had written to Mr Salmond asking him to stand down as a result of the MPs ' decision to strike a deal with the Conservatives in exchange for their votes on the Maastricht bill . |
| 20 | It turned out they had downclimbed , as it was easier than it seemed from above , but we did n't know that until later . |
| 21 | I knew men and women who wept bitter tears as they confronted how they had given their love , their time , their heart 's energy to a cause which they now saw as false . |
| 22 | Anthropology for Eliot did not remake the myths , but showed how they had , while becoming the possessions of high culture , transmitted and not entirely transmuted primitive origins . |
| 23 | I could not understand why they had been banished to this dusty attic . |
| 24 | Yet somehow the galleries were open again and doing a brisk trade , and publishers could not remember when they had sold so many books . |
| 25 | Yeah but do n't you remember when they had that erm erm semi-perforated edge on it ? |
| 26 | trainees in Leighbridge Do you remember when they had them |
| 27 | Little knots of people stood about eyeing each other with an air of wondering why they had come at all . |
| 28 | Neither Quasp nor Blast exist , although we 've heard that enough worried Mancs have been asking about their location , wondering why they had n't yet heard about them . |
| 29 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
| 30 | When it launched a complete make-up range last autumn , it introduced ‘ Mirror Image Consultation ’ , a new way of selling which is so simple that all the other companies were left wondering why they had n't thought of it first . |