Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they did catch anything they had swallowed it before surfacing . |
| 2 | They had prepared themselves for an unpleasant scene in which the wretched boy , stuffed to the gills with chocolate cake , would have to surrender and beg for mercy and then they would have watched the triumphant Trunchbull forcing more and still more cake into the mouth of the gasping boy . |
| 3 | They had missed him in the garden , but now if he was truly a son of Adam he would die . |
| 4 | The Counsellors had returned and , answering her questions with nothing but their phlegmy breathing , they had dragged he along corridors of metal and stone and into a large cell . |
| 5 | They had made him into a gunman . |
| 6 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 7 | More than that , he felt insulted that they had hidden it from him . |
| 8 | A planchette , they had called it at school . |
| 9 | Five hours later officers admitted the £9,000 Bedford Astra had gone missing before they had checked it for fingerprints . |
| 10 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 11 | By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 12 | However in all fairness to the Halling unit a number of those older men who fought in the first war wore medals for gallantry , and were to show us youngsters that they had lost none of their skills with a rifle . |
| 13 | They had done something to my dad . |
| 14 | If so they had done nothing about it . |
| 15 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 16 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 17 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 18 | They had raised them for generations . |
| 19 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 20 | And when the snow thawed and took with it the paint they had daubed it with , he was out there picking off the remaining flakes of paint , and cursing with disappointment . |
| 21 | Finally , by focusing upon the deficiencies of the young unemployed — their lack of training , their lack of qualifications , their lack of job search skills — it appeared that they had caused themselves to be unemployed . |
| 22 | They had caused nothing but trouble , a five pound note . |
| 23 | They had overheard nothing of their superiors ' conversation . |
| 24 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 25 | That meant they had connected her with Puddephat 's disappearance before the discovery of the body . |
| 26 | They had followed her up the path meantime , and were coming into the room ; her uninspiring sons , Paul the lawyer , George the insurance broker , Hubert the medical student , his eyes strained with reading . |
| 27 | They had sent a telegram to Louise ( Constance could not pluck up the courage to speak to her ) ; Ludovico had telephoned a friend about somewhere for them to stay and they had eaten what to Constance , used to English food , seemed the most delicious lunch she had ever tasted . |
| 28 | The visiting party , including an HMI in attendance , was horrified , dropped their agenda for the second day and went through the problems as they had perceived them with the management group and the Academic Board : |
| 29 | He knew why they had swept him from his horse and he was terrified of what they would do to him . |
| 30 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |