Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one occasion when they had met in those six weeks , it had been to visit flood victims in Wales , in the town of Carmarthen , which had been hit by the freak October hurricane . |
| 2 | The Conservative Party won only 42.9 per cent of the popular vote , less than they had achieved in any election between 1945 and 1979 , and did badly in Scotland and much of northern England . |
| 3 | Worcester was burnt , and the shire ravaged , but few people killed : they had fled in all directions . |
| 4 | He said it as though they had settled in some remote outpost of the old British Empire and not in handy , holidaymaker 's Chiantishire . |
| 5 | As with the Greeks , they had found in each other an all-embracing spiritual compatibility . |
| 6 | So little had been released from that tight grip , and there was so little natural affinity between them that , for all the hours they had spent in this room together , they remained strangers to one another . |
| 7 | Their day , however , had not been that good ; they had put in many hours of searching and had only made two finds of any note . |
| 8 | For half an hour they had lain in each other 's arms in the creaking guest-house bed , too scared with happiness to move . |
| 9 | Goodman tried to find out by demanding to know how many refugee children had been baptised since they had arrived in this country . |