Example sentences of "they had [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep carpet covered the floors and the stairs swept up to the showrooms and the warren of workrooms beyond , and though the window drapes and furnishings were ever-so-slightly faded , as if they had seen better days , they were of the finest silks and velvets and every corner was swept , polished and cleaned daily so that no single speck of dust , let alone a cobweb , dared show itself . |
| 2 | In the early days , when we had some money to spare , we would contribute to the village festivals and later , when we fell on harder times , and they had become richer and more famous for their art amongst international collectors , they would support us . |
| 3 | Since leaving the warren of the snares they had become warier , shrewder , a tenacious band who understood each other and worked together . |
| 4 | So for things to get better they had to get worse ; the worse they were the better they 'd be in the future ; they could n't even start to get better before they 'd started to go drastically downhill . |
| 5 | They had had longer to become philosophical . |
| 6 | The introduction of the National Insurance and Workmen 's Compensation Acts meant that many employers were becoming reluctant to employ deaf people in case they had to pay higher premiums just to employ them . |
| 7 | They had to pay greater attention to the placing of each step and pose within the new framework . |
| 8 | Asked if moral values have got better , worse , or stayed the same over the past ten years , 82 per cent said they had got worse . |
| 9 | Her colleagues came and went ; they had got younger and younger , it seemed , as time went by ; those who were career-minded departed for lusher pastures , more Susies and Karens took their places , giggling in the cloakroom , muddling up the reservation cards . |