Example sentences of "had [vb pp] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cromwell 's men were searching a Cavalier household ; the man had hidden in a window-seat and on top of it his wife had placed their sleeping child . |
| 2 | A visionary at Much Wenlock , on the testimony of Boniface , proclaimed in Ceolred 's lifetime that the angels surrounding him had withdrawn their protective shield and abandoned him to demons because of the multitude of crimes he had committed . |
| 3 | Before , it had justified their arbitrary rule . |
| 4 | By the following day up to 50,000 Moldavians , some armed , were blockading the Gagauz districts , where the Gagauzes in turn had formed their own defence force . |
| 5 | Under the old regime , the Central Authority had treated their financial policy as a quite separate exercise having no relationship to their investment policy . |
| 6 | Party managers arrived at that conclusion because that is the way they had treated their own party for the past eight years . |
| 7 | Their skin was a mouldy grey , while gravity had gathered their uncirculating blood at the lowest points — under the chin , the undersides of the limbs , and around the area of the lower ribs , buttocks and kidneys . |
| 8 | A few of the owners , like the Lorrimores and Daffodil and Filmer , had arranged their own transport separately in the shape of chauffeur-driven limousines , their chauffeurs coming over to the train to carry their bags . |
| 9 | Although half the incontinent people in the MORI survey had consulted their general practitioner , other surveys have suggested a much lower proportion . |
| 10 | 52% ( 108 ) had consulted their general practitioner at the onset of incontinence and a further 31% ( 65 ) later . |
| 11 | A further 31% ( 65 ) went to see their doctor — suggesting that over 80% had consulted their general practitioner at some time . |
| 12 | Members of the sample had consulted their general practitioners a mean of 7.0 times ( range 4–15 ) . |
| 13 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 14 | Only 30% of secondary schools in areas where there was no regional policy had developed their own policy . |
| 15 | It was emphasised that only limited information was available about the performance of Access students in higher education , and that the vast majority of students who had completed their higher education course came from one Access course . |
| 16 | These children had completed their preparatory year and were of normal intelligence but severe physical problems prohibited them from entering regular school . |
| 17 | The outcome of patients who had completed their linear growth ( defined by attainment of Tanner stage 5 pubertal development and less than 1 cm of growth in 12 months ) at the time of the study was also reviewed . |
| 18 | The top eight firms all had registrations with the ICAEW and the ICAI , four top 20 firms had registered their Scottish offices with the ICAS and one firm ( BDO Binder Hamlyn ) had a Channel Islands registration with the ACCA . |
| 19 | He had heard their scurrying feet and noisy squeaks , and he had been forced to nip his nostrils closed against their foul stench . |
| 20 | She was shaking with tears and laughter , and Davide began to laugh too , recalling above all his own mother who had broken their best service all those years ago when Rosa would n't come to her senses about Tommaso … . |
| 21 | But last night they had broken their own rules . |
| 22 | These children were eligible to enter the trial if they were between 37 and 43 weeks of age and if their immunisation record indicated that they had received their first dose of OPV between 6 and 12 weeks of age and their second and third doses at 4 to 6 week intervals . |
| 23 | By then the Goulds had received their first batch of letters . |
| 24 | The neophytes were still growing , and only a good while after they had received their final implant of all — the carapace — would they be able to jack into an armoured suit . |
| 25 | An interference effect was indeed apparent at the start of the final stage ( Fig. 4.7 ) and did not differ in magnitude between subjects that had received their aversive training in the same context as that used for the test and subjects that had received aversive training in a different context . |
| 26 | The government announced on Aug. 12 the discontinuation of all uranium extraction and the closure of processing plants , angering uranium miners , who had received their last pay packets in April . |
| 27 | The barn was to be their cabinet-making workshop ; their business — making fine furniture to order and restoring early furniture — had outgrown their current quarters . |
| 28 | had shaken their sooty pinions free |
| 29 | The two surviving Palestinians were both captured ; they were part of a group , originally six in number , who had landed in two rubber dinghies at Naquarah after an Israeli naval patrol boat had diverted their intended attack on Israel . |
| 30 | Judging by the number of dead Germans in front of the Commando positions around the village , it 's not surprising that they had stopped their frontal attacks . |