Example sentences of "they had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pascoe did n't ask about the people , but he guessed that they had grown angry waiting for the debt to be paid . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the survey did not ask them if they sold the products about which they said they had received insufficient training . |
| 3 | Even after they had received total protection status , beluga numbers in the St Lawrence continued to decline , and autopsies of dead whales during the 1980s revealed astonishing levels of toxic chemicals — in particular organochlorines such as PCBs , the insecticides DDT and mirex , and dioxin . |
| 4 | They had received un-measurable co-operation in all respects from Michael Draper , General Manager of the SVR and all working staff and volunteers . |
| 5 | Most of the parties saw their MPs and felt they had received positive support for the objectives of the Lobby . |
| 6 | and they had joined British Telecom at twenty , |
| 7 | They had pledged eternal friendship between the Gens Redburna and the Gens Mollandia . |
| 8 | They had made exaggerated claims about their membership size , among other shortcomings , the NEC said . |
| 9 | The scale of the defeat was laid firmly at the doors of several established players , who failed to turn out because they had made other arrangements on the basis that the match would fall victim to the frost . |
| 10 | In mid-October a breakthrough seemed imminent after senior trade officials from Canada , the EC , Japan and the USA , meeting in Ontario on Oct. 17-18 , claimed that they had made substantial progress in resolving the deadlock ( responsible for the suspension of an earlier round of talks between US and EC officials in Brussels on Oct. 11-12 ) . |
| 11 | They had made good time . |
| 12 | In 192 ( 71 per cent ) cases , DNs were solely responsible for current treatment ; in a further 26 ( 10 per cent ) , they had made joint treatment decisions with the GP and/or consultant , so the DN was wholly or partly responsible for 81 per cent of treatment decisions : Table 3 lists DN responses . |
| 13 | No doubt they had made considerable preparations before the news came of the cancellation ; it is hoped that they were not inconvenienced too much . |
| 14 | This improved the performance of the combine-harvester slightly ; but it was not until they had made serrated edges on all the knives that the loss of grain lessened appreciably . |
| 15 | It was over a week since the children had been removed , and both police and the Social Work Department had said they had made independent investigations which had led to their decision to take such drastic action . |
| 16 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 17 | The point was that their claims had gone to different adjudication officers and they had made different decisions . |
| 18 | Mm , she worked and she worked night shift as well , you know they had to do alternative shifts , so consequently |
| 19 | For two centuries they had faced Celtic attacks . |
| 20 | They surrendered at Rome airport on Aug. 30 after receiving assurances they would not be deported to Ethiopia , where they claimed that they had suffered political persecution . |
| 21 | Earlier on , they had sensed impending disaster . |
| 22 | At the time , some people believed that the drug had changed their lives immeasurably , that they had gained profound insights into the human condition , but , by and large , the major impact of LSD was cultural . |
| 23 | But they had never mentioned these despicable attacks to me ; they had kept cheerful faces and shown me all the love and care they had always given me , their prodigal son . |
| 24 | Initially they had devised Utopian states and communes in which brotherly ( and sisterly ) love triumphed over capitalist avarice . |
| 25 | Indeed , they had reckoned German strength in the area to be at most one corps although British Intelligence had estimated it at three and a half corps and even this , in the event , proved an underestimate . |
| 26 | Attitudes outside Parliament were very similar , and would have reduced Labour 's chances of winning the next election if they had advocated non-nuclear defence in 1957 . |
| 27 | Sjahrir complained to President Truman that they had reimposed Dutch rule . |
| 28 | They had checked similar seats that had been subjected to the rough and tumble of Metropolitan Police life , and ones that had supported over 70,000 miles , and they were all right as rain . |
| 29 | They had built French railways too , and there was this Frenchman , watching them , who said : ‘ My God , these English , how they work . ’ |
| 30 | They had lost precious seconds ; now they had none left to spare . |