Example sentences of "they had [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had run circles round me . |
| 2 | In relation to US banks they had to hold non-interest bearing reserve balances related to the size of their deposits , as did German banks in the Federal Republic . |
| 3 | They had grown tomatoes in peat compost alongside plants grown in coir compost ( coconut fibre ) and the latter were very unsatisfactory . |
| 4 | Phillipon told reporters that Quebec and Nova Scotia are not party to the framework since they had broken ranks with a 1991 provinical agreement to disdain unilateral compensation by earlier this year unveiling vastly discrepant compensation programmes . |
| 5 | And it would force companies to say in their annual reports whether they had broken laws on consumer protection , safety , the environment and discrimination . |
| 6 | They had broken covenant with God by disobeying his laws and were under sentence of death . |
| 7 | Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House . |
| 8 | The taxpayers were assessed to Schedule E income tax for the years from 1983–84 to 1985–86 on the basis that under the concessionary scheme they had received benefits that were to treated as ‘ emoluments ’ of their employment under section 61 of the Act of 1976 , the cash equivalent of such benefit being chargeable to income tax in accordance with the provisions of section 63 of the Act . |
| 9 | TORY officials finally admitted last night they had received £440,000 in donations from companies controlled by fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir . |
| 10 | Patients were excluded from the study if they had received mithramycin , calcitonin , steroids , or any other antihypercalcaemic agent within 14 days ; received chemotherapy within 14 days , or had a change or introduction of hormone treatment within 6 weeks ; a serum creatinine 200 mol/L after hydration ; or were pregnant . |
| 11 | Different groups had to lift the positive flap just a little ( half an inch ) or rather more ( up to seven inches ) ; thus the groups differed not in whether they had received pre-training with the cues but in the magnitude of the response acquired . |
| 12 | They had received complaints from neighbours round about midnight about the nightly festivities at the home of the star of Die Hard and TV 's Moonlighting . |
| 13 | And the ferry bosses admitted they had received complaints ‘ from time to time ’ — in writing and verbally . |
| 14 | But once they had received baptism , the existence of such superficially Christianized people ceased to present any challenge to the self-confidence of a Christian society . |
| 15 | By the time they had received instructions to follow and observe , they had lost it in a swirl of speed at one hundred and forty miles an hour . |
| 16 | Under interrogation , they said that they had received training in Pakistan and Afghanistan , and had supporters in Benghazi and Misratah , the latter being 200 km east of Tripoli . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) That since it could not be said that the jury would inevitably have convicted the defendant if before the trial the defence had been given the statement of the deceased 's husband and the two statements of her sister , if the jury had properly been directed with regard to evidence as to the defendant 's previous good character , and if they had received guidance from the judge on their problem concerning the evidence , the proviso to section 14(1) of the Judicature ( Appellate Jurisdiction ) Act could not be applied to uphold the conviction ; and that , accordingly , the case would be remitted to the Court of Appeal of Jamaica with the direction that it should quash the conviction and either enter a verdict of acquittal or order a new trial , whichever it considered proper in the interests of justice ( post , p. 169C–D , G–H ) . |
| 18 | A. Vogl wrote a charming account of how , as a young doctor on the wards of a Vienna hospital , he discovered that patients passed very large volumes of urine after they had received injections of one of the new organic mercurial compounds . |
| 19 | Only a third of 13 and 14-year-olds said they had received facts on contraception . |
| 20 | They had received kindness , thoughts and good wishes from total strangers throughout England , Wales , Scotland — and particularly Ireland , he added . |
| 21 | They had welcomed the Restoration of Charles II , who himself had once signed the Presbyterian Solemn League and Covenant , and in the negotiations which led to the Restoration they believed that they had received assurances that they would retain their benefices . |
| 22 | Perhaps he had also mentioned the fact that they had observed Dersingham , presumably not too many hours after the discovery of the car in the Broad , with trousers which were dripping wet ? |
| 23 | Stock , Aitken and Waterman 's achievements in the four years since they had joined forces were — even in an industry known for its hyperbole — sensational . |
| 24 | Both Croft and Cooper assaulted the honours system and Lloyd George 's use of patronage , but by 1922 they had joined forces with a wider Die-hard campaign of which the Duke of Northumberland was the figurehead and Maxse and Gwynne its main publicists . |
| 25 | Former ministers Peter Oloo Aringo and Geoffrey Kariithi also announced that they had joined FORD . |
| 26 | For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow . |
| 27 | But they were well adapted to the insecure lives of poorer workers ; if due to unemployment or other crisis they had to cease contributions they could lose no more than one year 's contributions . |
| 28 | They had to wear masks or veils on such occasions to prevent their recognizing each other . |
| 29 | She went to a different school from us , a convent school , where they had to wear uniform . |
| 30 | He was n't allowed to work that day , so people turned up in a white shirt and tie and looking smart , they had to wear uniforms even a cap but unfortunately nowadays , although a lot of the I have seen quite a few people their uniform has changed since I left , but erm they do come to work in very very casual work now . |