Example sentences of "they had [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had run for the woods in what they stood up in . |
| 2 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 3 | ‘ They had broken through the spell-wall . |
| 4 | Some were eating , and Ruth guessed that they had broken into the food supplies they had brought for the voyage . |
| 5 | On July 13 another five Cubans were turned away after they had broken into the residence of the Czechoslovak chargé d'affaires and temporarily taken him hostage . |
| 6 | His successor , Majorian , is unlikely to have gained the support of the Burgundians in 458 , when he drove them out of the lands which they had received with the approval of the Gallo-Roman senators . |
| 7 | Mr. S. Walker left a note for the Board of Guardians expressing thanks for their kind and courteous hearing when his group had been interviewed on the subject of the unemployed marchers , and for the treatment they had received at the institution . |
| 8 | This was intended to help them return to civilian life until they round employment and , to conform with the allowances they had received in the services , this sum included additions for dependants . |
| 9 | When I arrived they showed me the letter they had received from the Chief Education Officer that morning which explained the proposed Statementing procedure : |
| 10 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 11 | And King Bucar and the other Kings were so greatly dismayed that they never checked the reins till they had ridden into the sea ; and the company of the Cid rode after them , smiting and slaying and giving them no respite ; and they smote down so many that it was marvellous , for the Moors did not turn their heads to defend themselves . |
| 12 | Artemis 's father broke the silence now and then by humming tunelessly to himself , but he never spoke another word , not even after they had ridden into the yard and handed their horses over to Jenkins . |
| 13 | They had ridden to the far end of the long gravel ridge . |
| 14 | They had descended on the former Jesuit college from all corners of the world representing a variety of organisations from the International Labour Organisation , through the Congress of South African Trades Unions , to the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples , the cross-border American wo-men 's organisation Mujer á Mujer , and the London Hazards Centre . |
| 15 | They had invested for the long term , if not in imperial unity ( and significantly , nothing was said at Worms about emperorship or empire ) , then in the coexistence of Lothar and Charles in the regnum francorum . |
| 16 | When they had emerged into the station 's corridors , Ace had stood alone , her arms crossed and her lips tight , occasionally cursing as an android nudged her . |
| 17 | They had emerged into the street and looked across at the overalled figure and the patch of wall on which he was working . |
| 18 | Throughout the 1930s Hollywood was to make films condemning various abuses and malpractices in the American system and there were always to be films which clung to the conventions of the city film as they had emerged in the early part of the decade . |
| 19 | Their front row trio , Johann Styger , Willie Hills and Keith Andrews , admitted that they had prepared on the basis that they would scrum down against the most successful England unit in history . |
| 20 | Three women in nylon overalls sat at a table eating the food they had prepared for the canteen lunch . |
| 21 | ‘ See you tomorrow , then , Cavell , ’ she confirmed an arrangement they had made during the course of the evening , ignoring Luke now but still acutely conscious of his attention as she thanked the Estwicks again and departed with Florian and Nicky . |
| 22 | He was quite likely to forget the agreement they had made about the night watchman and , given the slightest excuse , batter the old boy . |
| 23 | Another criticism generally expressed was that headhunters , having approached a candidate and then been turned down , did not hesitate to make the most of the contact they had made despite the rejection and go on to ask , ‘ Well , can you recommend someone who would be interested ? ’ |
| 24 | Their store rooms were crammed with piles of objects , from furniture to fencing , and some of the corridors were blocked with the mounds of things they had made over the years . |
| 25 | Whatever the case , the alliance which they had made with the family of L'Isle jourdain ( closely related to the Duèse clan ) , stood them in good stead with the Avignon papacy until John XXII 's death in 1334 . |
| 26 | For those children going straight to foster families , without even the support of the friends they had made on the journey , natural feelings had to be forced down as adjustments to a new environment and a new language were made . |
| 27 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 28 | Statements they had made to the police would be submitted . |
| 29 | The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such , more like crustaceans , specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature , but still clinging to their old habitat , sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore . |
| 30 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |