Example sentences of "and they had [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 2 | They were people with connections , interests , obligations and they had to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages and to take other people and other possible futures into account . |
| 3 | Sanchia Holmes , manageress of the Framework clothes shop , said Saturday was usually their busiest day and they had missed out on a good deal of custom . |
| 4 | The band were still distressed at the demise because their working relationship had been excellent and they had built up good friendships with the staff , and did not want to seen them lose their jobs . |
| 5 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 6 | Ever since Mum had married Ken Lomax and they had come up here , he had felt useless . |
| 7 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 8 | They had chased the car at speeds of up to 90mph but lost it , and they had picked up Mr Beaton near Windyedge Farm , between Perth and Stirling . |
| 9 | Her father died and they had to come back from their , this particular and come back . |
| 10 | They belonged and they had to come back to . |
| 11 | And they had to come back . |
| 12 | a week before the July fortnight and they had to come back . |
| 13 | Today — the Saturday of the Whitsun weekend — the shop had opened its doors to the public for the first time ; and they had got off to an encouraging start . |
| 14 | At Châteauroux on 23 June 1187 Henry II and Philip had been confronted with the problem of whether or not to commit their forces to battle the most difficult and terrible decision to face an army commander — and they had drawn back . |
| 15 | My br erm my step-brother erm lived in a flat and , and the flat got on fire and they had to climb out the window and jump out |