Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] 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 | Readers became familiar with their Doppelgangers , as if they had turned a corner and unexpectedly confronted themselves in a mirror . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The RJO also confirmed that they had received a video tape from Israel of an interview carried out recently with Shaikh Abdel-Karim Obeid . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Although they had cost a mint , Aunt Tossie felt they were well worth the money , a fitting background for her darling . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | The unrest then subsided unexpectedly , but police rejected as unfounded the rumours that they had struck a deal with the criminal syndicates . |
11 | Best of all , they had made a plan together . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | They had made a friend — a very good friend — and they dearly wanted him to come and see them again . |
14 | By 1990 turnover had increased to £150,000 and they had made a profit of £32,000 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
17 | They had made a mistake , that was all , and sent it to his son . |
18 | In January this year , the Legal Aid Board decided they had made a mistake , and withdrew legal aid . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | They had total-stumped some US Cav in the Painted Desert , and some were saying they had scratched a Maniax Chapter in the Rockies . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | They had lit a torch which was flaring and smoking in an iron bracket . |
27 | The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
28 | At the Microsoft Conference in March 1991 , C-Cube showed they had gone a step further . |
29 | Somehow they had kept a fire smouldering here . |
30 | It was not until the early years of the twentieth century that they had devised a formula for their boot polish which was marketed later under the name of ‘ Cherry Blossom Boot Polish ’ which became such a success , being sold at one penny per tin . |