Example sentences of "what they had [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms . |
| 2 | We gave them a sheet of paper which said what we were , what we 're doing , and said please , if you want any help in any of those areas , just tick the box , and if you do n't want any help , tick this little box , and that 's what they had to fill in . |
| 3 | He would call on some farms and others would bring what they had to sell down to Low Birk Hatt . |
| 4 | We 're gon na look at psychology and what they had to say about , or the school had to say about perception . |
| 5 | For each item , the children either had to complete a sentence , such as Snoopy has cream on his face so … or they were given a description of the clue , such as The clue is that Snoopy has cream on his face , and were asked to tell the Pink Panther about the clue and what they had worked out . |
| 6 | Then , under hypnosis , they were regressed fourteen days to the time or the showing of the film and they were able to watch it again in their minds only — but this time , of course , they were aware of the questions in advance and so they knew what they had to look out for . |
| 7 | Whatever went into the flooded Comer here would fetch up at one of several spots , no doubt well known to the police , where curves and currents tended to land what they had carried down . |
| 8 | Rather does Karajan seem to remind them at every point of what they had agreed on in countless hours of common endeavour ; and his movements — chiefly of the baton-less left hand — are functional , not in the least demonic . |
| 9 | Romford 's insurers paid the father 's claim and then sued his son , the negligent lorry driver , to recover what they had paid out under the contract of insurance . |
| 10 | Rain wondered what they had spoken about , how long the conversation had lapsed before she joined them . |
| 11 | At the outset Helen Martini said the prospects of what they had taken on were daunting , but she had no doubts about what they could accomplish . |
| 12 | Esler Dening commented that he had always suspected that the Americans had not appreciated the full significance of what they had taken on in Korea ; it appeared that they were unwilling to accept the consequences of being located in an area of Soviet predominance and it would be regrettable in its implications elsewhere if the United States retreated . |
| 13 | They achieved what they had set out to do , and so the thirty-six hour homeward journey would be that more tolerable . |
| 14 | The Tories had broadly accepted ‘ Attlee 's consensus ’ , although Churchill was already critical of ‘ socialist bureaucracy ’ and ‘ loss-making nationalised industries ’ and his party promised a further relaxation of wartime controls on workers , consumers and private capital ; the Labour leadership had basically achieved what they had set out to achieve in the initial round of nationalisation and formation of the National Health Service and had no new radical project to present to their working class supporters , while the broader ‘ labour movement ’ in the country was not unified around any radical demands for further government action . |
| 15 | In the course of these operations they killed and wounded more than 500 people , but even with these drastic measures they did not succeed in doing what they had set out to do . |