Example sentences of "they had [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 2 | John wrote to Hanns in June that they had intended to bring a programme of ballets by |
| 3 | They had intended to stay a week . |
| 4 | how well had they understood what was required by the review , how adequate was their guidance , how much preliminary discussion there had been and how competent they had felt to conduct a review ; |
| 5 | The defendants had previously encountered Mr. Perot in 1983 when they had sought to negotiate a letting of Caliban to Mr. Perot but the negotiations had broken down . |
| 6 | The company says the attempt at a buyout failed because the managers realised that it would take longer than they had planned to develop a new generation of the 50 Series minicomputer line . |
| 7 | They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform |
| 8 | They had wanted to share a supply from nearby Levendale School . |
| 9 | They had hoped to use a tug in an attempt to pull the Bettina Danica off the rocks . |
| 10 | On April 25 , Congress ( I ) and the Manipur People 's Party ( MPP ) announced that they had decided to form a coalition government , ending a week-long political crisis . |
| 11 | They when they had bought bought a a plantation of larches . |
| 12 | Yes , so they had did have a variety of different things you you could er be |
| 13 | They had had had a tremendous send-off on the Sunday from the Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle , including 40 cars from the MG club . |
| 14 | The fact that the cold war lasted so much longer than the economic idyll meant that Americans never adjusted to the fact that , economically , their country had long ceased to be able to deliver the annual increase in prosperity they had come to consider a birthright . |
| 15 | They lacked any direct involvement in the origins of those hostilities and were clear-eyed about the depleted resources with which they had to work to arouse a usually indifferent public . |
| 16 | The raid , on a property in Knotto Bottom Way , failed but not before they had tried to force a sliding window at the front of the home . |
| 17 | By July they had managed to sign a nucleus of nine players and re-applied to join the Mid-Counties League . |
| 18 | When Josè , the Portuguese housekeeper whom they had promoted to become a shop manager , had nowhere to live , they bought her a house , oversaw the extensive repairs and stocked it with furniture . |
| 19 | ‘ They 'll come back , ’ I said comfortingly to the girls , who were lamenting that they had forgotten to bring a camera . |
| 20 | It was the second time in 24 hours that they had acted to stop a party in the county . |
| 21 | Civilian and police press officers attached to RUC Headquarters , Belfast retailed various smear stories against Irwin , including a claim that he was bitter and vindictive against the police because they had failed to arrest a soldier who , it was alleged , three years earlier had raped his wife . |
| 22 | The Six therefore simply accepted to resume collaboration even though they had failed to reach a resolution acceptable to all governments : in essence , they agreed to disagree . |
| 23 | The Conservatives might seem to have a legitimate claim as the largest single party ; but they had failed to obtain a mandate for Protection . |
| 24 | They had failed to provide a safe system . |
| 25 | Chirac and Giscard d'Estaing announced on June 27 , 1990 , that they had agreed to form a " confederation " ( rather than a merger ) of the UDF and RPR , to be known as the Union for France ( Union pour la France — UPF ) . |
| 26 | They had agreed to have a final drink after Duncan had unpacked . |
| 27 | They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December . |