Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 2 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 3 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 4 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 5 | Sanchia Holmes , manageress of the Framework clothes shop , said Saturday was usually their busiest day and they had missed out on a good deal of custom . |
| 6 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 7 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 8 | After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital . |
| 9 | Afterwards they had gone out into the brilliant sunshine of mid-June , the English summer being fine for a change , and Matey had introduced her to her other , lesser treasure , the curate Mr Julian Sands . |
| 10 | But once they had stepped out into the cool air , paradoxically , the noise seemed muted , the sea no more than a distant roar . |
| 11 | Some who were on the list contested their placing and felt ‘ it was unreasonable that they had lost out in the advertisement race ’ . |
| 12 | They did n't show when the lectern was down , but imagine the audience 's laughter if they had popped up with the lectern and the speaker . |
| 13 | The Fontanellatesi , like all Italians , felt happy ; happy that they had stood up to the Fascists , and happy that they had helped the escaped prisoners . |
| 14 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |
| 15 | WARSAW ( Reuter ) — Carmelite nuns denied a report that they had moved out of a convent at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz which has caused a row between Roman Catholics and Jews . |
| 16 | As they talked they had moved out of the pub , back into the sunlit streets . |
| 17 | They had moved in from the garden during a cold spell in November . |
| 18 | But they had fallen out over the collection of some money . |
| 19 | Before they had ventured out into the snowstorm , their mother had issued instructions : ‘ Pin up your skirts before you go out into that plother . ’ |
| 20 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 21 | Having wandered about all over the house , they had ended up in the dining room where the cabinet full of glass was . |
| 22 | They had poured out of the back room in an interval of the singing and were fighting for the bar with empty glasses , when Mallachy dug Rory sharply in the side . |
| 23 | The spade and the fork they had hung up among the other tools in the stables . |
| 24 | Denktash argued that UN proposals would mean that 40,000 Turkish Cypriots would be forced to leave homes they had lived in since the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974 . |
| 25 | He dealt quickly with the Romanian trip until that day when they had driven up into the mountains to visit Putna . |
| 26 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 27 | Now , in an unbelievably four short years , they had caught up with the atomic bomb which alone guaranteed the security of the much-disarmed United States . |
| 28 | Slowly but inevitably they had drifted back into a loving relationship , culminating three months ago in their engagement . |
| 29 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 30 | After they had settled down among the bushes , we used to take these do you see . |