Example sentences of "they had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had both gone home to their parents ' . |
| 2 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 3 | If Britain had suggested something like this several years earlier , it might have found some support within the Six , but by 1957 they had already passed far beyond that point . |
| 4 | He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose . |
| 5 | Out on a train in Cambodia they had even talked lightly of setting up Oz again in London , even as Neville filed stories back to Richard Walsh and Oz in Sydney . |
| 6 | Bruce Davidson had accompanied McLeish from his last posting to C1 , that division of New Scotland Yard concerned exclusively with murder , and they had now worked together for four years in the CID . |
| 7 | In Lucien 's family , they had only come together at the times appointed by the Church : meals , various holidays , family councils and those mysterious , Church-nominated occasions when children were conceived . |
| 8 | The competition with its attendant publicity and the Lords debate on 15th May , 1857 seems to have persuaded the Lords of the Treasury of the need for Hall 's Bill , which they had originally received early in December 1856 . |
| 9 | Her soft blue eyes hardened as they had never done before in her life and she met his gaze head-on . |
| 10 | By the time Maggie had to go back to London they had never felt closer in warmth , even happiness . |
| 11 | Suddenly , as they arrowed in for the kill , the man-thing did something they had never experienced before in any hunted victim . |
| 12 | Mother Francis hoped that the Community in Dublin would understand the need to make Eve feel important and part of the place as they had always done here in Knockglen . |
| 13 | That night the BBC ran the obituary twice — the first time they had ever done so for anyone , and the first television obituary to consist of a filmed interview with the deceased . |
| 14 | Thus , for example , when asked whether they had ever thought seriously about early retirement before the prospect of redundancy was raised , less than one-quarter had done so . |
| 15 | In fact , those who retired prematurely were less likely than those who waited until pension age to have said that they had ever thought seriously about early retirement ( 24 per cent compared with 44 per cent in the age-group 60 and over ) . |
| 16 | They had all gone away to be professionally stripped . |
| 17 | Even though they had all agreed beforehand to the principle of a supranational institution , the six states of ‘ little ’ Europe — France , West Germany , Italy , Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg — faced nine months of hard bargaining after they formally began negotiations in June 1950 . |
| 18 | They had all figured prominently in the election manifesto of the Labour party at the time . |
| 19 | Although they had recently lost narrowly to New Zealand , there was no question that West Indies were now the outstanding team in the world , and they were to continue that way throughout the 1980s . |
| 20 | The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive . |