Example sentences of "had [verb] them [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She handed two packets and a wafer to the boy , who had finished wiping the mattresses down and had leant them up against the wall to dry . |
| 2 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 3 | He had joined them out of the press in the midst of a guard of taciturn Merkut troopers who were economical in their employment of the brute force necessary to clear their master 's path . |
| 4 | From the beginning of their history , the amphibians were hunters , preying on the worms , insects and other invertebrates that had preceded them on to the land . |
| 5 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 6 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 7 | No matter what Joe 's and Tamar 's earlier lives had been , both were respectably married now and their father had accepted them back into the fold . |
| 8 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 9 | He had sneaked himself into the crowd of humans as the huge woman had herded them over from the train . |
| 10 | It was much smaller than the one that had brought them out of the Store , but still quite big enough . |
| 11 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |
| 12 | The timber and the bath and such came across by boat into the bay there , and a fine job they had dragging them up to the house . ’ |
| 13 | They had visited the fifteenth-century pavilion , which had taken them back to the world of 1492 and immersed them in an era that led up to the discovery of America . |
| 14 | And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before . |
| 15 | So much so , that the Commissioner , Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Sumner , had taken them out of the formal structure and appointed Bragg as his personal detective assistant . |
| 16 | He was glad that he did n't throw out the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since he had taken them out of the suitcase on top of the wardrobe and displayed them in his own room as if they had come in with the morning post . |
| 17 | I had to wring them out in the mornings . |
| 18 | I had to take them back to the shop , and try another chemist . |