Example sentences of "they had [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 2 | They had witnessed a steady growth in circulation and were well satisfied with their achievements , even hopeful that things would improve . |
| 3 | People would believe that it was unnecessary to dispute the matter and that they had received an additional benefit for the injury that had been forced upon them . |
| 4 | Despite a reference to the full accounts and their availability it did not , however , explicitly indicate that they had received an unqualified audit report . |
| 5 | There they had joined a large group of sect heavies , some of whom were armed . |
| 6 | They had joined a Gordian knot of vans , taxis , and automobiles that was inching forward at a pace that had set that little muscle in his jaw to knotting and unknotting . |
| 7 | They had endured an embarrassing fund-raising dinner , for which rich Americans had paid 5,000 dollars a ticket , only to discover on their return that the Confederation of British Industry had done nothing to follow it up with any kind of sales drive . |
| 8 | We were looking forward to some exercise of rowing , but typically when we arrived , we found they had prepared a gondola-like craft ( of a kind emperors used to go in ) on which we were meant to sit and be gently punted around while we sedately drank tea . |
| 9 | About one quarter of primary and secondary schools indicated that they had prepared an explicit statement of the health education aims of the school for both staff and pupils . |
| 10 | On Jan. 17 the police also reported that they had uncovered a neo-Nazi organization , three of whose members were arrested and another six questioned on suspicion of plotting the overthrow of the government . |
| 11 | Detectives announced yesterday they had uncovered a drug-making factory in London 's Highgate capable of producing a massive quantity of tablets . |
| 12 | The early Earth-people had not given up on anything ; they had conquered and explored and invented and they had made a marvellous and memorable world . |
| 13 | Indeed , it was in a mood of celebration rather than panic that the garotters were actually toasted for having ‘ taken upon themselves the duty of upsetting a whole fabric of amiable delusions ’ concerning the reformation of criminals , and further congratulated that through their ‘ inexcusable crime ’ they had made a salutary impact on public opinion and ‘ created a general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ . |
| 14 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 15 | General Motors of America believed they had made a major breakthrough into the British market in 1985 when they persuaded Foster Yeoman to buy four specially constructed 3,300hp locomotives to haul heavy stone traffic from their Merehead quarry to locations in the South East . |
| 16 | Pushing it towards the door they could hardly contain their excitement until Endill stopped in his tracks , realising they had made a terrible mistake . |
| 17 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 18 | One look was sufficient to make them realise they had made a dreadful mistake . |
| 19 | Coun leader Arthur Taylor told the full council yesterday that they had made a sensible deal with the bus companies which could save the free pass scheme . |
| 20 | Evidence that they had made a sound choice came with the £36 bill for the 6,000 mile service . |
| 21 | So when I stumbled against him and threw my arms round his neck he just stood there , unmoving except for a slight step backwards to keep his balance — though I thought I felt his hands touch my waist for just an instant as if they had made an automatic move to hold me which he had cancelled . |
| 22 | Goldthorpe and his team ( 1969 ) wanted to study manual workers with high incomes to see whether they had developed a middle-class way of life . |
| 23 | Nothing remotely in common , yet they had developed a warm regard for each other . |
| 24 | Members of the CSJ , the NILP , the CPNI , the Belfast Wolfe Tone Society , the Republican Clubs and private individuals worked together because they had developed a personal commitment to the association , and not because they were directed by any outside agency . |
| 25 | The Steelworkers , financing their programme through a 1 per cent levy on union dues , provided training for reps in fighting union-busting methods in the early 1930s ; by 1985 , they had developed a full two-day residential course on ‘ Facing Management ’ , which includes introduction exercises , and a role play ( ‘ Handle with Care ’ ) on productivity bargaining ; the course also looks at Japanese management methods , quality circles and technological change . |
| 26 | Around it they had developed a rigid code of honour — Shen-sei-go — which contained the principles according to which every Manchu male was expected to live and die . |
| 27 | They had constructed a new personnel file . |
| 28 | And they had suffered a great loss when John Crabb , their notable leader , had been captured by the English on his return from his ill-fated venture to the Tay and Perth in support of Mar . |
| 29 | Families where there has been a murder find that people are more reluctant to talk to them than if they had suffered an ordinary bereavement — sometimes even crossing the street to avoid them . |
| 30 | Last night , Newcastle had totalled just 24 points and Boro 30 , while the favourites Edinburgh Monarchs were top of the pile with 97 , although they had raced an extra leg . |