Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 2 | On Nov. 19 the Istiqlal ( " independence " ) party and the Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( USFP ) announced that they had decided to act together for " the establishment of true democracy " . |
| 3 | They had decided to move just in case Ralemberg told me anything . |
| 4 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 5 | In spite of everything , they had managed to reach home at their usual time . |
| 6 | The movies had created a false world and what was taken as the ultimate proof of that was the way in which they had failed to deal directly with real Americans and their dilemmas . |
| 7 | By Aug. 27 the US Defence Department and the ICRC announced that they had agreed to work together on the airlift . |