Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Strange , he thought , aggrieved , that the friars should be so implacably his enemies , and stranger that by becoming his enemies they should regain a little of the credit they had lost among common men . |
| 32 | By 1960 there were still only 1,300 beds but by 1985 they had risen to 12,000 . |
| 33 | But , in fact , the tables in the report show that while leukaemia rates for 1951–58 were 83 per cent of the national average , in the period 1971–1978 they had risen to 100 per cent . |
| 34 | I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) . |
| 35 | England 's juniors , though , could at least console themselves that they had participated in one of the most enthralling matches played on English soil in recent years . |
| 36 | In the 1740s the French in India would have been happy enough to ignore the war in Europe and remain neutral , as they had done during earlier European wars , mainly because previous emperors could maintain the peace . |
| 37 | When children who knew more and less did respond , they were consistent in differentiating their response from what they had done for more and for less . |
| 38 | The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years . |
| 39 | But part of her did want to repair some of the damage they had done to each other . |
| 40 | The right hon. Member for Hertsmere blew the whistle on his colleagues when he disarmingly said that , when he privatised electricity , he would not make the same cock-up as they had done with British Telecom and British Gas . |
| 41 | retained direct control of the ‘ Croydon & District Tramways ’ might not work well if the new lines had to be separated administratively from the Corporation system , so they decided to set up a subsidiary company as they had done in other areas . |
| 42 | The inhabitants of Goritskaia volost' near Tver received fewer letters towards the end of 1926 than they had done in 1913 . |
| 43 | While Archbishop Reynolds and some other bishops and royal clerks colluded with the king , the lower clergy presented stout resistance , precisely as they had done in 1294 when they were also invited to pay for the tune played by the prelates . |
| 44 | It was anticipated that the rains which were expected in May would slow the government 's military campaign , as they had done in previous years . |
| 45 | When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow . |
| 46 | They were both slightly embarrassed at how they had clung to each other when the thunder crashed and how the daughter had nestled in , practically under , her mother 's nightgown when the sheeting rain slashed down around them , beating on the windows , just as when she was a little girl . |
| 47 | They had stood at one set all , but Hammond held two service breaks in the third . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | They had met in medical school , where Paul Forrest was a year ahead of her . |
| 50 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 51 | And inside her an unbearable excitement was building as they had moved towards that luminous moment when the two of them would finally be one . |
| 52 | WHEN HE saw his hands in the light he flinched , and held them away from him , to avoid letting them touch any other part of his person or habit , for the right was engrained with drying blood across the palm and between the fingers , and the fingers of the left were dabbled at the tips , as if they had felt at stained clothing . |
| 53 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 54 | They had regenerated with incredible speed , comparable with that of a bacteria colony increasing in a lab dish — doubling itself within hours . |
| 55 | Even the route they had followed to this point seemed now to have closed behind them . |
| 56 | At the very first meeting in St Margaret 's Hope village hall they had asked for monetary pledges , at the second meeting in the local school they said it was time to call in those promises and start counting the cash . |
| 57 | The oil mingled with the warm salty water which leaked from places in the ceilings , and that was one of the reasons they had asked for some sort of banister rail to hold on to in the narrow winding-stair . |
| 58 | They had fallen upon all sorts of riches , some immediately apparent but others that took some seeking out . |
| 59 | They had argued like this until the plane touched down in Belgium : Tweed uncharacteristically negative ; Paula positive and working out escape routes . |
| 60 | They had seen over two-score Coburg Street boys , with sticks and stones , pass them quietly . |