Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But last night they had broken their own rules . |
| 2 | It seemed that to feed the children they had denied themselves all food and eaten grass . |
| 3 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 4 | They had kept it all these years . |
| 5 | You will meet those who spent two , maybe three days there and left believing they had done it all . |
| 6 | They had caused me many heartaches and disillusions , and I was determined that it should never happen again . |
| 7 | ‘ They had seen it all before . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Party managers arrived at that conclusion because that is the way they had treated their own party for the past eight years . |
| 10 | They had said it all . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What happened next is uncertain , but at some point — either after they had completed their own private count , or after the first vote — the Zuwaya protested to the commission that they were outnumbered by four votes ( 1261 to 1257 ) because the Magharba had infiltrated voters from the outlying districts of Bishr and Marada . |
| 14 | They had shot their own film and it somehow got mislaid . |
| 15 | They had hit him several times for lying . |
| 16 | They had transformed what some writers saw as being the traditional American way of life . |
| 17 | Mr Knight also acknowledged that a suitable high-speed pick-up machine was not yet available from a commercial manufacturer although they had shown their own adaptation with a high speed paddle rotor swept up all materials including small particles . |
| 18 | Once they had had their own barracks , their own surgeons . |
| 19 | They had found their own solution to the humanist problem of mating music with words in musique mesurée , the influence of which lingered on although it was no longer practised with doctrinaire thoroughness , and the air de cour with lute accompaniment flourished to the near exclusion of polyphonic song , though some of the published lute airs were obviously based on polyphonic originals . |
| 20 | Hip to the cocktail circuit , they had used their many contacts to construct a massive hype , especially in the fashion press . |
| 21 | In cafes they would come up and sit at your table and chat as though they had known you all their lives . |
| 22 | The tacksmen , he told Johnson , were emigrating , unable to comply with the exorbitant rents demanded by the lairds and deluded by the dreams of wealth they had promised their own tenants . |
| 23 | They had hosted their own shoot at Dolphinton where they had been less successful . |
| 24 | They had hosted their own shoot at Dolphinton where they had been less successful . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Two of them had built their own homes . |