Example sentences of "[noun pl] they had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sour note was when her memories coincided with those of the supporting artistes and she duplicated a couple of songs they had already warbled through . |
| 2 | Many mentioned the practical steps they had already devised : altering curriculum materials , deliberately avoiding the use of stereotyped language , studying patterns of classroom interaction and thinking of ways to increase girls ' participation . |
| 3 | A committee may be pardoned for insisting on hearing candidates they had never heard , but it is scarcely pardonable that they should expect one who is not a candidate , and whose qualifications they had the best opportunity of knowing , to stake his reputation in any such way . |
| 4 | Like there were them lads they had fucking four in a glass like and , there was loads of , so many drinks like I served loads . |
| 5 | The fact that Nonconformists were so prominent in the new financial institutions became a source of deep concern , both for the landed classes , who had by now largely severed any ties they had once had with Dissent , and also for the old Tory financial interests in the City , who saw their former economic ascendancy being eclipsed . |
| 6 | On the other hand , they had also reached a point where they were using sufficient quantities that injecting , which requires less heroin for a ‘ better hit ’ , became ‘ attractive ’ enough to overcome any anxieties they had previously felt . |
| 7 | The tour is necessary , they say , to raise funds to create a safe environment for Barnes 's art — funds they had originally sought by trying to sell up to $100 million in paintings . |
| 8 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 9 | Do n't remember how many shops they had then do you ? |
| 10 | Many supporters of Dr McNab exchanged glances of dismay at the words they had just heard . |
| 11 | Obligation and gratitude were words they had never needed to use . |
| 12 | Crossing the hospital courtyard which divided the maternity wing from the general wards and administration building , hearing over and over in his head the words they had gently but coldly told him , the announcement of his son 's death , leaving Lili asleep , carefully sedated , he had lifted his eyes and seen Rufus Fletcher . |
| 13 | In this way exhibitors were forced to fill up their screens for months ahead with pictures they had never seen . |
| 14 | erm , the adventure section was quite successful in a lot of respects they had quite a few people er attached to it , the scout group and the cub group , cub packs did n't have very many , but erm the adventure section had quite a few people , er and in fact we 've got people doing the tent stalls at the moment that are from a seventh mutant , which is , what it was and of course they 've disenfranchised if you like er but we 're looking , the district is looking to create a new group with Buckland |
| 15 | At first glance they realised that the specimen differed from any meteorites they had ever seen . |
| 16 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 17 | Builder Dave Young , wife Jane and son Paul , three — who had been taking a dip in the hotel pool — were left with just the costumes they had on . |
| 18 | By their diligent eating of carcases they had probably spared the garrison an epidemic or a pestilence , but that was not what the Collector liked about them … though clumsy on the ground , their flight was extraordinarily graceful . |
| 19 | In practice , it was undoubtedly the case that petty persistent offenders were frequently given sentences that were disproportionate to the offences they had actually committed . |
| 20 | The Tories misery in Oxfordshire was repeated in Wiltshire , where they now have less than half the seats they had yesterday . |
| 21 | Before leaving America she gave away much of her furniture to family and friends and was able to enjoy letting them have the pieces they had always liked . |
| 22 | Despite low incomes they had not switched priority to the long-term needs of their households . |
| 23 | For a start , the weather was atrocious when they most needed to acclimatize , and in their first seven weeks they had only seventeen days of cricket . |
| 24 | Their emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water . |
| 25 | In those days they had very few clothes . |
| 26 | In earlier days they had actually earned their living by war and become rich from the plunder they could collect on their annual expeditions . |
| 27 | ‘ A senior police officer and a police surgeon , both very pleasant and helpful , admitted that in their courting days they had indeed persevered and had sexual intercourse despite protests from the women they were with ; an actor asked in fascination how it could possibly be called rape if a woman had gone so far before protesting ; a dentist [ stated ] ‘ I have had it with dozens of women against their will . |
| 28 | So saying , disdainfully Lexandro left the scriptory and returned to his small cell to recite in private one of the liturgies they had all been taught . |
| 29 | After the three less-than-convincing films they had previously made together , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? brilliantly restored their credibility as performers , and Nichols 's essentially theatrical but competent direction was nominated for an Oscar . |
| 30 | During the trial , several prosecution witnesses reportedly retracted incriminating statements they had earlier made against the defendants . |