Example sentences of "they had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 2 | The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office . |
| 3 | They had run out of water the day before . |
| 4 | This time Reception said they had run out of vases and , whatever he 'd done , did n't she think it was time she forgave him ? |
| 5 | The poor must tighten their belts and if they had run out of notches , it was just too bad . |
| 6 | The villages were moved because of the depletion of firewood stocks ( the Indians believed the English had arrived because they had run out of firewood at home ) . |
| 7 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 8 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 9 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 10 | They had turned back to Sicily and I could n't see a formation but spotted a straggler who , curiously enough , was flying diagonally across our line of approach and not heading pell-mell for home . |
| 11 | The superintendent started eating hers as soon as they had turned out of Chester Row , peeling back the clingfilm with one hand while shuffling through the sheaf of papers she held in her lap with the other : formal , typewritten statements from people at TV London who had something relevant to say about Nicola Sharpe . |
| 12 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 13 | They had stumbled in upon what was quite clearly nothing less than a pagan sacrifice . |
| 14 | Sanchia Holmes , manageress of the Framework clothes shop , said Saturday was usually their busiest day and they had missed out on a good deal of custom . |
| 15 | The landlord of The Morning Star at New Bradwell , was Major Ansell MBE ( HG ) , who thought it unjust that they had to soldier on after their experiences . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But they had gone up to forty eight through acquisitions . |
| 18 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 19 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 20 | After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital . |
| 21 | They had gone out to Jamaica to start a new life . ’ |
| 22 | Afterwards they had gone out into the brilliant sunshine of mid-June , the English summer being fine for a change , and Matey had introduced her to her other , lesser treasure , the curate Mr Julian Sands . |
| 23 | Next day they had gone back with ropes and a book on rock-climbing from the library to teach themselves about knots . |
| 24 | The rebels in Makati calmly bargained for surrender terms which , they insisted , should include her own resignation — and the terms behind the government 's report that they had gone back to barracks were not immediately clear this morning . |
| 25 | His buffaloes , some ten in number , were straggling up towards the road and he said he would leave as soon as they had grazed up to where he was sitting . |
| 26 | Some got as far as Rhodesia and the high altitude was n't any good so then they had to go on to Cape Town . |
| 27 | they had to go round with a blow lamp to get the frost and the dew in those big houses |
| 28 | No you could n't I mean er at you know the the doors would n't be open be I mean you know , you could picture a wardrobe without a door , but you were working you were sandpapering that on the inside and er maybe brushing it up and down and then sandpapering that again and then they had to go over with what we call the rubber . |
| 29 | However , Mary , Jack and Charlie did n't stop but made the excuse that they had to go back to work . |
| 30 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |