Example sentences of "they had [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By the mid-1920s they no longer had the harsh appearance that they had developed in the immediate pre-war years … |
| 6 | They had suffered in the Civil War from requisitioning by Red , White , and Green armies , and to some extent from the Bolshevik-inspired kombedy ( committees of poor peasants ) . |
| 7 | DELIGHT , elation and relief greeted the news of the government 's decision to compensate investors for the bulk of the losses they had suffered in the collapse of Barlow Clowes . |
| 8 | Unlike the increases of the early 1930s , this jump was caused by the revival of stealing networks , mainly in those areas where they had prevailed in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | They had wanted no part of the terror and the bloodshed , and they had hidden in the mountains and the caves and the remote Northern Isles . |
| 10 | MPMR leaders stated in a news conference that they did not regret their past actions and believed they had assisted in the defeat of the Pinochet dictatorship and the restoration of democracy . |
| 11 | ‘ Often I have bent my way to the great entrance of Studley and seen twenty or more carriages waiting , unhorsed , for the return of the parties they had deposited in the morning and who were now rambling in all directions . |
| 12 | FitzAlan would only snap at her anyway , as he had been doing from the minute they had risen in the half-light of a chilly grey dawn . |
| 13 | Our panel gave more weight to unemployment throughout the final campaign than they had done in the Pre-Campaign wave . |
| 14 | He confessed that everyone trusted him now , as they had done in the old days . |
| 15 | The Education Department did n't like the situation ; they did not co-operate with advice or materials as they had done in the past , and in fact the island 's Director of Education accused Mrs M of ‘ acting illegally ’ . |
| 16 | Women burdened with loads attracted him , as they had done in the Borinage , pushing wheelbarrows , sweeping , and fetching coal . |
| 17 | The electrical power workers , however , did not respond in the forthright way they had done in the general strike of May 1974 . |
| 18 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 19 | At the moment there is n't even a charging regulations came in the schools immediately cut back because it was a very definite barrier that was put up to prevent schools that prevented schools from from taking up that sort of er offer that they had done in the past and it 's a major problem . |
| 20 | The commons played a more substantial and a more independent part in this political crisis than they had done in the conflicts of Edward I 's last years and Edward II 's reign , and they showed some awareness of their power to demand concessions in return for agreeing to the king 's financial demands . |
| 21 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ |
| 22 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ . |
| 23 | As they had done in the 1930s , Soviet organisations approached state-owned Latin American oil companies . |
| 24 | They had stood in the dark until Peter had put his torch on , and then they had turned back , glad though , relieved , when they could light a match again . |
| 25 | In the immediate aftermath of the emancipation most landowners felt even less warmly towards the imperial bureaucracy than they had felt in the past . |
| 26 | In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 . |
| 27 | Although still on the top floor , they now had lifts , or rather elevators , to take them up and once inside the dressing-room each Girl had her own mirror well lit by bulbs surrounding three sides just as they had seen in the films . |
| 28 | Many other men and organisations had reason to be proud of the parts they had played in the drama . |
| 29 | They had played in the mound of and for over an hour . |
| 30 | They had stayed in the abbey kicking their heels and helping with administrative tasks to pay their way ; now , one of them was only too happy to take the letter and ride south with Corbett 's instructions ringing in his ears . |