Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sub-Committee E has certainly carried out a number of inquiries — for example , those into Merger Controls and into product Safety and into Unfair Contract Terms , where the final content of the legislation corresponded entirely to the views they had earlier expressed . |
| 2 | Darwin himself held back the views he had already formed until 1859 . |
| 3 | And in a fortnight or three weeks time they too would be found with the inquisitive crowd on the inside of the gate staring at the prisoners who had just arrived . |
| 4 | For the tourney I returned to the serving table to serve the knights who had just fought with a drink , and serve the ladies with bread , cheese and fruit . |
| 5 | At Bhamdoun , a hill resort with a little railway station , an ornate French signal box and a clutch of mosques and apartment blocks built by the Saudis who had once gone there for their summer holidays , Syrian shellfire had smashed into the shops and flats , punching a hole into the wall of the Carlton Hotel . |
| 6 | He put all the skills he had ever learned into the timbre of his voice . |
| 7 | His ears tried to crawl into his head in terror of the syllables they had just heard . |
| 8 | She looked with horror at the fingers which had cruelly raked Bill Yardley 's face , and heard her own voice uttering words not even fit to be heard in the alleys . |
| 9 | He was heading towards the baths I had just left . |
| 10 | Quiss could feel himself starting to s " " eat already , despite having left most of his furs lying at the top of the steps he had just descended . |
| 11 | Unlocking the door , she put her meal on the bench and donned the old smock she wore for working , then settled to sanding and smoothing the shapes she had already carved . |
| 12 | It was Mr Spyros P. Skouras who let it be known that if Kazan did not testify helpfully , the pictures he had just made might never appear and he would not be directing any more . |
| 13 | The subjects were 20 of the drivers who had previously participated in Study 2 . |
| 14 | There were the embusqués , who had somehow dodged the war , and the profiteers who had already amassed sizeable fortunes ( from which they were rapidly enriching the restaurateurs and the jewellers , who had never known business to be better ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , if he 's so decent , ’ said Amiss , as he donned the pyjamas he had specially bought for the purposes of room-sharing , ‘ why does he allow us to be fed so badly ? ’ |
| 16 | The shops he had just examined stretched all the way back to the churchyard wall and their rear windows , set grimly amongst the headstones and mausoleums , had to be checked too . |
| 17 | He walked slowly up the familiar road admiring the shops he had once dreamed of owning . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , much repeal work still displayed the ambiguities which had always marked middle-class women 's participation in the domain of social reform . |
| 19 | Many supporters of Dr McNab exchanged glances of dismay at the words they had just heard . |
| 20 | It was n't only the words she had just used to Marguerite . |
| 21 | Ecstasy increased as Robyn looked deep into his eyes and heard the words she had hardly dared hoped for . |
| 22 | By simply developing along the lines we had already established with the lesser known young contemporaries . |
| 23 | He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan . |
| 24 | These were the Azems who had once served in the French army or even the French air force but who later turned against their French masters — and their minority supporters in Syria — and died fighting them . |
| 25 | But the shift in focus involved in the journey south did not necessarily reposition the directors who had once rediscovered northern grime into a world which they could explore with sympathy and understanding . |
| 26 | It is not clear whether these were part of the advance column who had been marched back from Bleiburg or some of the vast majority of the Croats who had never entered Austria at all . |
| 27 | The effects he had carefully measured were misjudged , comical , obscene , absurd . |
| 28 | In his acceptance speech he called on delegates to work to overcome the rivalries which had traditionally split the country 's communist movement and invited " all left-oriented people " to join the new party . |
| 29 | For while his victory certainly overturned the basic tenets of any horse race — he won because he was so far behind at the crucial moment — still he gained that victory by adapting to the circumstances which had suddenly presented themselves , by his jockey 's quick and skilful manoeuvring by his jockey , by jumping accurately and by keeping up his gallop to the end . |
| 30 | In practice , it was undoubtedly the case that petty persistent offenders were frequently given sentences that were disproportionate to the offences they had actually committed . |