Example sentences of "they had [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But above all , the Conservatives were impaled on the difficulties of saying why , since they had run the country for 13 years , they had not taken certain actions sooner . |
| 2 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 3 | They had run the city respectively from 1976 to 1986 and from 1986 to December 1991 , and both were protected by parliamentary immunity , having been returned to parliament at the general election . |
| 4 | But in their clumsy efforts to break the steering lock they had broken the steering itself . |
| 5 | But first , they had to replace the Secretary , Steward and Professional who all left in July 1920 for unconnected reasons . |
| 6 | In the manner which had stunned Cecil Roberts and the audience at the Park Lane Hotel , he denounced his opponents , shouting at them that they had turned the election into a thoroughly dirty fight . |
| 7 | Cardiff noticed that they had turned the microphone towards the floor now , but the clicking from the metal container had stopped . |
| 8 | As soon as they had turned the corner , however , he put his paper down and headed for the row of pay phones that lined the wall . |
| 9 | Once they had turned the Mount , with the full span of the ice shining before them , the two men gathered pace , at once in harmony and contention , drawing vigour from the presence of the young woman between them , who cried out , not in fear but encouraging them on to greater exertions . |
| 10 | In sentencing the three , Manhattan Superior Court Justice Thomas B. Galligan stated that they had turned the park into a " torture chamber " on the night in question , and that " the intensity of the violence that occurred … is something no rational mind can explain " . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) In the case of breach of warranty of quality such loss is prima facie the difference between the value of the goods at the time of delivery to the buyer and the value they would have had if they had fulfilled the warranty . ’ |
| 12 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 13 | Was not their incontestable success the sign that they had received the mandate of heaven ? ’ |
| 14 | They were told by Jesus not to speculate about the time when God would bring in the kingdom in all its fullness , but , once they had received the Holy Spirit , they were to witness to Jesus in Jerusalem , Judaea , Samaria , and throughout the world ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 15 | They had received the reports in the Place of Healing , where the body lay in the courtyard , protected from the flies and the heat by wet wrappings , waiting for someone to claim it and give permission for an examination to begin , before it was taken to the embalmers . |
| 16 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 17 | But if they did n't speak with tongues how did Simon know that they had received the Holy Spirit ? |
| 18 | Using the Jodrell Bank Radio telescope in Cheshire , they had observed the super dense pulsating radio star ( pulsar ) PSR18219-10 for 18 months and deduced from variations in its radio signature that it was being orbited by a planet every six months at approximately the same distance as that from Venus to the Sun . |
| 19 | They had joined the 401st within the previous ten days and this was the only loss suffered by the 615th Squadron on this mission . |
| 20 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
| 21 | Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands announced in May that they had joined the 1987 Missile Technology Control Regime ( MTCR ) which committed industrialized countries to restricting missile proliferation in the developing world . |
| 22 | Huge gangs of navvies , dealing with their new task in the same manner with which they had extended the railway lines the length and breadth of the land . |
| 23 | A further step towards the creation of an Inuit homeland had been taken on April 27 when government and Inuit negotiators announced that they had initialled the Nunavut Political Accord . |
| 24 | They had written the letters that would be read during the week by the camp censors , that would be passed or slashed or shredded . |
| 25 | They had descended the causeway which wound around the plug of rock upon which Kinsai was built , and now they were close to a stream which ran as a tributary into the D'neistr , the river which flowed north to the Sea of Tears . |
| 26 | A faint smile crossed her face , but she remained silent until they had descended the stairway and stood at the entrance to the great hall . |
| 27 | So he set off one day with Moira , as she spoke French , and they stayed in Geneva until they had organized the shop . |
| 28 | It was n't their fault , usually , that the firm was doing badly , but they had to carry the can . |
| 29 | I mean th th th th they were on the way to military security , but were they going , they , they , they recognized they had to carry the population with them . |
| 30 | One important feature of the ground battle for which the Allied forces at all levels were profoundly grateful was the fact that the chemical warfare attacks for which they had prepared the protective equipment described in the San Francisco Chronicle of 19 February 1991 never materialized . |