Example sentences of "they had [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had kept it all these years . |
| 2 | You will meet those who spent two , maybe three days there and left believing they had done it all . |
| 3 | They had caused me many heartaches and disillusions , and I was determined that it should never happen again . |
| 4 | ‘ They had seen it all before . ’ |
| 5 | Walter Smith told his players before they left the dressing room at Celtic Park that he appreciated they had given him all they could since the start of that run in August . |
| 6 | She takes a sip of mineral water before launching into James Woods and his girlfriend , Sarah Owen : ‘ I 've a theory that James and his girlfriend had so many problems they had to turn it all on me . ’ |
| 7 | They had said it all . |
| 8 | The Commandos in the trench with me did not seem to be put out by the noise and the explosions caused by the Moaning Minnies ; no doubt they had heard it all before . |
| 9 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 10 | They had hit him several times for lying . |
| 11 | Hm , I think we said last time that they had to tell you this month with the money . |
| 12 | In cafes they would come up and sit at your table and chat as though they had known you all their lives . |
| 13 | ‘ Even so they had to send her half round the world . |
| 14 | He 'd thought of her constantly , hoping she still worked for the Bradford family , and the invitation to Christmas dinner with them had caused him more elation than Maud , his wife , though he had n't dared show it . |