Example sentences of "had [verb] them in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indeed you would n't find better anywhere , ’ said Mrs Bennet who had joined them in the cellar with her daughter . |
| 2 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
| 3 | Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons . |
| 4 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |
| 5 | At once , he could see that it was the same monstrous nightmare that had attacked them in the basement . |
| 6 | Blake remembered the much smaller pterodactyls which had attacked them in hell . |
| 7 | A lucky deal in 1863 caused his business to take off : he bought two sacks of Cape of Good Hope triangular stamps for £5 from two sailors who had won them in a raffle in Cape Town . |
| 8 | Bartram s query regarding Kalm s American observations was dealt with : Miller had not seen whether Linnaeus had included them in his Species of plants , but mentioned that Kalm had published them himself ; ‘ in the Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it , so I have not been curious enough to send for the book , nor do I hear any good character of it . ’ |
| 9 | At the November hearing , the taxpayer said he had written to the building society in May and August and had telephoned them in September but still did not have the required details . |
| 10 | The Capellans , indulgent as ever , had trusted them in ours until it became obvious the same hideous trick was about to be played again . |
| 11 | Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government . |
| 12 | Since the early part of the 1960s the sense that the universities needed to take their national role more seriously , as Reid had reminded them in 1948 , had been somewhat enhanced by the appointment of the Robbins Committee . |
| 13 | She had met them in London the previous summer during their annual holiday and had agreed to travel out to Naples with them and look after their two young children . |
| 14 | They ate in silence , Corbett conscious of the old man staring at them now joined by the leader who had met them in the forest . |
| 15 | A school had only to ask and he would talk to the boys and girls , and dozens of boys came to King 's because he had met them in a train or at school . |
| 16 | Whether he had prepared them in advance , of course , we 'll never know . ’ |
| 17 | Several people had noticed them in the bar , but no one saw when they left . |
| 18 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 19 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 20 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 21 | Leslie was aware that most people " can not Read at all " , but said he had seen them in the streets " Gather together about one that can Read " and listen to a newspaper being read aloud . |
| 22 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
| 23 | And whoever took this four marb eight marbles had chucked them in this hole and if a even number come out it was mine , if a odd number came out then he 'd take the eight . |
| 24 | ( When he finally left us for the United States , he took these gifts back from me , with the excuse that as he had bought them in Berlin he wanted to show them to the dancer . |
| 25 | They had bought them in the local sex shop in the hope of saving the money they would normally spend on E. So what were they like ? |
| 26 | Over 30 universities and colleges resumed work on Aug. 24 on the orders of the military government , which had closed them in response to student riots in December 1991 [ see p. 38681 ] . |
| 27 | Back at their inn , they sat quietly reflecting how little Aberdeen had offered them in terms of conversational or intellectual stimulation — or , as Boswell reported Johnson 's remark , ‘ that the Aberdonians had not started a single mawkin [ the Scottish word for hare ] for us to pursue ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 29 | At first , Lucien had watched them in awed fascination , hardly daring to practise any movements himself for fear of ridicule . |
| 30 | Ever since he had known her parents , he had had them in the palms of both his hands . |