Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [conj] they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the study days , the patients were fully ambulatory and could follow their preferred daily routine except that they had to return to the laboratory for their meals . |
| 2 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 3 | At first , as Counts of Poitou , the Dukes had been chiefly involved in northern French politics but once they had also become Counts of Gascony their interests turned more and more to the south , towards Toulouse and towards Spain , where they took a leading part in the Holy War against the Moslems . |
| 4 | Oh yes , yes , they even had like they used to have savings ' weeks er salute the soldier week , they used to have promotions for National Savings you see and we used to get so much money or where they had a bid thermometer on the car park in Street which is now the extension of the Gala Baths and they used to show how much savings had been put in they used to have targets for people , to put the National Savings in , they used to have an Anglo-American friendship week . |
| 5 | The men went into the little cabin and when they had eaten they thanked Babushka and went off to sleep . |
| 6 | Jesus , it was one island , that was true , but the terrain made the halves more remote from each other than if they had been two islands separated by a sea channel : you could n't skip across our jungles and mountains in an outrigger . |
| 7 | The whole day had been a great strain and although they had attempted to resolve their differences and clear the air Rachel found herself dreading the prospect of working with David Markham on a permanent basis . |
| 8 | He said that the magazine was in good health and that they had not even had to obtain a ‘ medical opinion ’ on the subject ( it was of course supported partly by a subsidy from Lady Rothermere ) , but that he would look into the Radcliffe Camera question . |
| 9 | A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms : |
| 10 | The tired rabbits fed and basked in the sunny meadow as though they had come no further than from the bank at the edge of the near-by copse . |
| 11 | They all seemed to have more luggage than when they had started . |
| 12 | Their clothes were in a worse state than when they had left the workhouse . |
| 13 | In one of their questions they asked respondents whether their job required more , less or the same skill as when they had started work . |
| 14 | At one point , roughly the same point as when they had to borrow money from Andy 's mum , their telephone was cut off , and all business was conducted from a call box in Chiswick High Road . |
| 15 | Note that there is no significant relationship between whether a subject recalled a particular junction and whether they had known it previously , r(phi)=0.022 , df=1064 . |
| 16 | Rather apprehensively I let the other girls use it , on the strict understanding that when they had finished with it they unplugged it and stowed it away somewhere out of sight of our two gauleiters , hopefully after it had cooled down a bit . |
| 17 | Whilst this is a fast and relatively painless process , the files will require handling in exactly the same way as if they had been transferred across a simple serial link . |
| 18 | However , although they were worth less on the open market than if they had been in ‘ good ’ condition , they were still fit for the purpose for which the buyer wanted them ( making into cattle food ) and were still so upon arrival . |
| 19 | He concluded that not only had the respondents agreed negatively not to sell other petrol but that they had agreed positively to keep their garage open for the sale of the appellant 's petrol at all reasonable hours throughout the period of the tie . |
| 20 | Many of the girls wanted to ask about domestic details such as rationing , clothes and saying goodbye to boyfriends while the boys frequently said they wanted to interview the men to find out if they had been on active service or if they had killed anyone . |
| 21 | I 'm not sure whether the change in areas was the reason for the last flurry or whether they had just been triggered by instinct and gone on the feed . |