Example sentences of "they had [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 2 | They had joined the 401st within the previous ten days and this was the only loss suffered by the 615th Squadron on this mission . |
| 3 | Professor Andrew Lyne and two colleagues , Matthew Bailes and Setnam Shemar , astronomers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom , announced in the British science journal Nature of July 24 that they had made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system . |
| 4 | WHEN THE GODS WERE ASKED TO NAME AN AUSPICIOUS DAY FOR the sheep to go south to Aula for the six months of winter , they had said the twenty-second of Kārtik , November the sixth . |
| 5 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 6 | They had reached the first of the amusement arcades : dimly-lit and claustrophobic . |
| 7 | They had reached the first landing when Constance stopped . |
| 8 | This was the first time they had reached the second round and it was reflected in the atmosphere , though the official attendance of 3,877 , a record for the purpose-built Meadow Park ground , was hardly accurate . |
| 9 | By the time they had reached the third field she was beginning to feel more at ease in the saddle . |
| 10 | It was the first time they had mentioned the third who was there in the room with them , though they had both felt his presence , and she , indeed , had lived with it close and uncomforted for a year . |
| 11 | They had waltzed the last waltz together , now the evening was over . |
| 12 | All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography . |
| 13 | During those early months , Kit Everard tried every evening to retire to his new quarters at Belmont and go to sleep ; he read the Bible , by the light of an oil lamp floating in a coconut shell , for they had used the last of their candles . |
| 14 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 15 | Paul Ware scored the goal which won the Autoglass Trophy Southern Area final for Stoke after they had drawn the first leg against Peterborough 3–3 . |
| 16 | On top of that there was the slovenly , almost token , way they had drawn the first covert . |
| 17 | They had started the first course without her . |
| 18 | On the credit side ( if that was the word for it ) , they had discharged the last of the luckless Beador 's debts . |
| 19 | They had entered the Second World War opposed in attitude , and emerged little changed . |