Example sentences of "they had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bruises on the neck and face and legs of the widow and her children were still livid on the brown skin as they recounted how they had run a gauntlet of fists and kicks and curses of their neighbours . |
| 2 | But when ‘ Happy Hour ’ cracked the Top Five , they had to hold a meeting to see if this was what they really wanted to do — they did , temporarily . |
| 3 | Readers became familiar with their Doppelgangers , as if they had turned a corner and unexpectedly confronted themselves in a mirror . |
| 4 | The welcoming party for Ali Bacher , first off the plane , and the 94-strong South African party was only a small one , comprising Jamaican and West Indian Board officials and assorted media , but all present knew they had witnessed a piece of history that only recently seemed destined for the next century . |
| 5 | The RJO also confirmed that they had received a video tape from Israel of an interview carried out recently with Shaikh Abdel-Karim Obeid . |
| 6 | The West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit found recently that , while part-time work was increasing in their area , women were actually being paid a lower percentage of local full-time wages than they had received a decade ago . |
| 7 | The presence or severity of the lesions contributing to the anaemia was difficult to interpret at endoscopy in 43 of the patients as they had received a course of H 2 antagonists ( n=18 ) or had reduced or stopped aspirin or NSAIDs ( n=32 ) , or both , before the first hospital attendence . |
| 8 | Gorbachev , in his response to the results , nonetheless claimed that they had received a mandate for the ‘ renewal and strengthening of the union state ’ and promised to press ahead with the conclusion of the union treaty and a new constitution . |
| 9 | Although they had cost a mint , Aunt Tossie felt they were well worth the money , a fitting background for her darling . |
| 10 | They had organized a decoy system whereby Carolyn drove Diana 's car to entice her press pursuers away and then Diana would emerge from Coleherne Court and walk off in the other direction . |
| 11 | In addition to the squalor , residents suffered from prejudice when they had to give a Springtown address . |
| 12 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 13 | The unrest then subsided unexpectedly , but police rejected as unfounded the rumours that they had struck a deal with the criminal syndicates . |
| 14 | Best of all , they had made a plan together . |
| 15 | Last night the investigating team said they had made a breakthrough when a missing hood from James 's anorak was discovered by officers searching the area . |
| 16 | They had made a friend — a very good friend — and they dearly wanted him to come and see them again . |
| 17 | By 1990 turnover had increased to £150,000 and they had made a profit of £32,000 . |
| 18 | It was almost as if he felt that they had made a fool of him in 1945 – 46 and was trying to atone for his naiveté . |
| 19 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 20 | They had made a mistake , that was all , and sent it to his son . |
| 21 | In January this year , the Legal Aid Board decided they had made a mistake , and withdrew legal aid . |
| 22 | That was the strong inside bet from Central Park yesterday as the champions angrily denied they had made a move for Sydney St George coach Brian Smith to succeed Monie . |
| 23 | The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris . |
| 24 | I HAVE no doubt that the vandals who defaced Bomber Harris 's statue are feeling pretty smug and probably thinking that they had made a point for Dresden . |
| 25 | They had developed a method of inserting memories into the brains of amnesiacs , but first those memories had to be recorded with full sensory data on to microchip , and then projected by laser into the brain . |
| 26 | They had total-stumped some US Cav in the Painted Desert , and some were saying they had scratched a Maniax Chapter in the Rockies . |
| 27 | The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time . |
| 28 | The Goldsmiths were content : they had presented a library of more than 800 volumes , and their Chaplain , the Rev. J. H. Ward , was the Examiner in 1861 . |
| 29 | In 1973 , in what has become one of the most frequently quoted papers in the literature of memory research , Tim Bliss from the National Institute for Medical Research in London and Terje Lømo described how , working together in Per Andersen 's laboratory in Oslo , they had anaesthetized a rabbit , then exposed its hippocampus and the nerves leading to it . |
| 30 | They had lit a torch which was flaring and smoking in an iron bracket . |