Example sentences of "[adv] they had [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load . |
| 2 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 3 | Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver . |
| 4 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
| 5 | When parents or social workers went up to see us , obviously they had to see the staff , and the woman in charge was so nice , she had this big front — ‘ My girls , my girls ’ — it was totally a load of shit . |
| 6 | If only they had seen the correspondence that flowed to party chairmen from ’ Horrified of the Home Counties ’ when some of those Bills hit the deck ; one example was the correspondence from the lighthouse keepers association . |
| 7 | If only they had had the sense to invest in cleaning up our power stations , as the Germans have done , we would not watch electricity industry representatives and Ministers rushing around trying to find cheap fixes to meet their European obligations . |
| 8 | By the time the gloom of evening began to settle in they had reached the river Travis had spoken of . |
| 9 | Of course , when one was a child many years ago winter could be an advantage , and if the storm was bad enough they had to close the school , which was wonderful . |
| 10 | Willis ' account , relying upon Marxist interpretation of the data , portrayed the lads as expressing a kind of rebellion , for in doing so they had developed an awareness of their class position . |
| 11 | So they had to abandon the Ferreira Hotel and most of their possessions . |
| 12 | So they had to take the bath completely out |
| 13 | So they had to get a chap that knew his business and I think he was entitled to get extra money . |
| 14 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 15 | By eleven o'clock they had reached the cluster of buildings that formed Lightwater , and identified the Liveseys ' house . |
| 16 | They were moving nearer the house all the time and by one o'clock they had finished the field . |
| 17 | She had dutifully done so and together they had selected an array of clothes in the deep greens and blues , the rich wine shades that Thomas said best set off her porcelain skin and burnished hair . |
| 18 | The military-industrial complex had strengthened its influence on US foreign policy , and so too had the multinational corporations ; together they had declared a ‘ crusade ’ against communism , which was threatening the future of the world community as a whole . |
| 19 | Together they had painted the town a decorous shade of palest pink , dancing at Le Bal Anglais , or was it Mimi Pinson , necking in other people 's rooms , walking the streets of Paris , hand in hand during one timeless and unforgettable spring . |
| 20 | It was an easy task , the grave was shallow and soon they had scraped the dirt off the still-white coffin lid . |
| 21 | Somehow they had kept a fire smouldering here . |
| 22 | This party , oblivious to my presence , were arguing over whether or not they had found the summit , which depressed me somewhat . |
| 23 | And so when finally they had invaded the greatest city in the world , they built the portico at Euston to proclaim as a memorial their victory to posterity . |
| 24 | Finally they had to accept the dismissals . |
| 25 | Finally they had hired an almost completely monosyllabic man from the University of West Cameroun called Dr Ahmed Ali . |
| 26 | When they had decisively defeated the Gauls in the battle of Telamon in 225 B.C. they had commemorated the victory by a temple on the site , in which the Celts appears as the modern counterpart of the Seven against Thebes . |
| 27 | By 2,000 BC they had reached the eastern Mediterranean , probably carried by merchants and travellers down the prehistoric trade routes which crossed the Middle East . |
| 28 | Detectives announced yesterday they had uncovered a drug-making factory in London 's Highgate capable of producing a massive quantity of tablets . |
| 29 | But yesterday they had to accept a report by officials calling for commercial waste collection charges which could result in bills of up to £2,000 a year for some users . |
| 30 | When they had returned home they had disconnected the phone . |