Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 2 | The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office . |
| 3 | They had run out of water the day before . |
| 4 | This time Reception said they had run out of vases and , whatever he 'd done , did n't she think it was time she forgave him ? |
| 5 | The poor must tighten their belts and if they had run out of notches , it was just too bad . |
| 6 | The villages were moved because of the depletion of firewood stocks ( the Indians believed the English had arrived because they had run out of firewood at home ) . |
| 7 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 8 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 9 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 10 | They had turned back to Sicily and I could n't see a formation but spotted a straggler who , curiously enough , was flying diagonally across our line of approach and not heading pell-mell for home . |
| 11 | The superintendent started eating hers as soon as they had turned out of Chester Row , peeling back the clingfilm with one hand while shuffling through the sheaf of papers she held in her lap with the other : formal , typewritten statements from people at TV London who had something relevant to say about Nicola Sharpe . |
| 12 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 13 | They had stumbled in upon what was quite clearly nothing less than a pagan sacrifice . |
| 14 | Sanchia Holmes , manageress of the Framework clothes shop , said Saturday was usually their busiest day and they had missed out on a good deal of custom . |
| 15 | She recounted how they had gone up to Master Allingham 's chamber and , finding the door locked , had ordered the workmen from the yard below to force the chamber . |
| 16 | But they had gone up to forty eight through acquisitions . |
| 17 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 18 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 19 | After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital . |
| 20 | They had gone out to Jamaica to start a new life . ’ |
| 21 | Afterwards they had gone out into the brilliant sunshine of mid-June , the English summer being fine for a change , and Matey had introduced her to her other , lesser treasure , the curate Mr Julian Sands . |
| 22 | Next day they had gone back with ropes and a book on rock-climbing from the library to teach themselves about knots . |
| 23 | The rebels in Makati calmly bargained for surrender terms which , they insisted , should include her own resignation — and the terms behind the government 's report that they had gone back to barracks were not immediately clear this morning . |
| 24 | His buffaloes , some ten in number , were straggling up towards the road and he said he would leave as soon as they had grazed up to where he was sitting . |
| 25 | They had called up to her . |
| 26 | For one unbelievable moment their eyes met and once again it was as if they had stepped back into their own circle of magic . |
| 27 | Their relations and old schoolfriends would tell them they had stepped out of their class , which in fact they had . |
| 28 | Both he and his daughter seemed diminished : they had stepped out of their class , allowed themselves to imagine things and been very properly put in their place . |
| 29 | But once they had stepped out into the cool air , paradoxically , the noise seemed muted , the sea no more than a distant roar . |
| 30 | Three weeks earlier they had flown out to Rome where they had been able to spend a few days as guests of the staff and students at the Venerable English College before setting out from St Peter 's Square on Wednesday , 30th September to cycle more than 1,700 miles across Italy , Switzerland and France , then up through England . |