Example sentences of "they had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About a third of those interviewed said they had run away because of ‘ problems at home ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office . |
| 4 | Similarly a plate of biscuits may not contain enough for ‘ one each ’ and children would not know until each had taken one or they had run out . |
| 5 | They had run out of water the day before . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | The poor must tighten their belts and if they had run out of notches , it was just too bad . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | So he had lowered himself to sit beside her and together they had stared wordlessly towards the horizon . |
| 10 | The Alsatians , their thick pelts soaked and steaming , had sniffed with some certainty around a little icon of the Virgin which stood by the roadside , sheltered from the rain by a stone arch , but after that they had rambled unhappily this way and that and returned whining to their handlers , who were knee-deep in mud , soaked to the skin and cursing roundly . |
| 11 | There were no jobs for young people in rural areas ; rising property prices meant that they were unable to find housing in the villages in which they had grown up . |
| 12 | Sometimes Beatrice would come to see her , bringing the children ; and afterwards , when they had grown up , they would visit her still . |
| 13 | They had grown up together and their relationship was not one of repose or listlessness . |
| 14 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 15 | And next came the wonderful , handsome , shabby old house where they had grown up together . |
| 16 | Even if cubs had been reared on human flesh , they did not persist in man-eating once they had grown up . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
| 19 | Since then they had grown up , left school , even gone to the same veterinary college . |
| 20 | They had grown so used to her not joining in that they had not really noticed that she had stayed up there when they came down . |
| 21 | He was fourteen years old , blind and hardly able to walk , but they had grown much attached to him and could hardly endure the thought of his death . |
| 22 | And true enough , in the last few days they had grown much closer to each other . |
| 23 | They had grown very close . |
| 24 | So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying . |
| 25 | It was the second time they had broken up and been reconciled . |
| 26 | ‘ It is coming ? ’ he asked for the fifth time since they had broken away from the Baglietto . |
| 27 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 28 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 29 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 30 | Perhaps those bombers had flown up the river as they always did , just so the sirens would send Liverpudlians hurrying to the shelters for yet another night , then perversely they had turned inland and dropped their bomb loads on Manchester instead . |