Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Camille accused herself of lack of foresight and rapidly made up a yarn whereby they had thought better of the dinner-party and had spent the evening playing Monopoly at Tim 's place in a blameless fashion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Fenella , who understood in a vague way about mill wheels and how they had to rotate continually to provide power , saw with horror that the slaves inside the steel mesh cages were forced by the motion of the wheels to tread endlessly forward to keep the treadmills revolving . |
| 4 | God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area . |
| 5 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 6 | Something that linked them , was a reminder of how they had got there . |
| 7 | They had arrived in the bedroom without knowing how they had got there . |
| 8 | They had reached a short flight of stone steps leading down to an open door , and she had no idea of how they had arrived there . |
| 9 | They were typical of part of what it was like to be homeless — having nowhere to go ; having to avoid all representatives of authority ; feeling tired and generally run-down ; and needing to have my wits at their sharpest at a time when they had become critically undernourished . |
| 10 | For some reason she recalled that moment during the afternoon when they had stood together on the slope looking down on Rocamar . |
| 11 | Indeed , the activities of the Cistercian monasteries in the twelfth century demonstrate how full the landscape was by that date , when they had to create artificially the wild , inhospitable landscape they preferred . |
| 12 | She remembered those days when they had played together as children , too , he always getting his own way . |
| 13 | Sometimes Beatrice would come to see her , bringing the children ; and afterwards , when they had grown up , they would visit her still . |
| 14 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
| 15 | He dealt quickly with the Romanian trip until that day when they had driven up into the mountains to visit Putna . |
| 16 | Yet somehow the galleries were open again and doing a brisk trade , and publishers could not remember when they had sold so many books . |
| 17 | Most of the emigres who had joined the Domanov Cossacks during their time in Byelorussia in 1943–4 might strictly speaking have been included as Soviet Nationals under this definition , since at the time of " joining a formation fighting with the German forces " they would have been " living within the 1938 boundary of the USSR " , regardless of where they had lived before . |
| 18 | She was n't sure if he would come , but it never occurred to her not to go to the rock where they had met before . |
| 19 | Yet most of the pilot computer users we have spoken to have never even known what kind of data could be had from the Skymaster service , let alone reached the stage where they had worked out how to access the information . |
| 20 | At the end of that street , they went back to the bus-stop and to Kilburn where they had worked before . |
| 21 | She could follow the shoreline all the way to where they had pulled up that afternoon looking for shelter , but that would take hours . |
| 22 | Ben was standing several paces from his father , looking back up the grassy slope to where they had set up arc lamps all around the cottage . |
| 23 | The children persisted with the same piece of writing from week to week , taking up from where they had left off usually without a murmur . |
| 24 | Stefan knew he could n't cope with the traumas of continuing where they had left off . |
| 25 | Ranulf believed the French were responsible ; Corbett at first agreed , but then queried why they had waited so long and privately concluded that the attackers were from Lord Bruce 's retinue . |
| 26 | Cos that 's why they had to move out of this house in the first |
| 27 | Desperately she fought back the tears , not knowing why they had formed so swiftly . |
| 28 | The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes . |
| 29 | That was why they had drifted apart . |
| 30 | That was why they had seemed so dreamily bright before . |