Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 2 | Though she had said she was too young for them she had been enraptured by them in a tiny jeweller 's in Pollensa but Fernando had hurried her away saying he would buy her the real thing one day . |
| 3 | Between them they had served the party for 139 years . |
| 4 | Between them they had many more divisions and better rockets than the West . |
| 5 | Between them they had a weekly capacity of 5,500 sacks . |
| 6 | Between them they had raised over £1.8m to fund new Mersey class boats . |
| 7 | Between them they had established the Association 's " unwritten law " that the President/Chairman should be hearing and the Secretary deaf . |
| 8 | He in turn relinquished the reins in 1985 — between them they had recorded some 95 years of service with JM ! |
| 9 | There were six other octogenarians also in attendance and between them they had notched up 170 years service with P&O companies . |
| 10 | Between them she had made a decision based only on panic and no common sense . |
| 11 | Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them . |
| 12 | Even though the politics were there to see , for me they had no context yet . |
| 13 | In the later stages of Metaltronix I had a guy work for me who had a tube engineering degree , but that kind of knowledge still does n't teach you about designing — the times I asked him to design certain circuits and he 'd just stare at me ! |
| 14 | I think it was two hours for me I had to plough that one . |
| 15 | Before he reigned he had , by Doña Sancha his wife the Infanta Doña Urraca , his eldest daughter , who was a right excellent lady , and after her he had the Infante Don Sancho , his eldest son and heir ; and then the Infanta Doña Elvira , whom after the death of the King her father , her brother King Don Alfonso married to the Count Don Garcia de Cabra . |
| 16 | Then after him they had an , a fella come from I think he finished up as Pinn Mill Harbourmaster , whether they got one now I do n't know . |
| 17 | In view of the way in which the government treated universities in 1861 and 1862 , the law of June 1863 which redesigned their modus operandi preserved a remarkable degree of the generosity towards them which had been evident in the second half of the 1850s . |
| 18 | Rex Cunningham had told her that he had seen Clare in possession of a photograph of me which had convinced him we were intimate friends . |
| 19 | Just in front of me I had seen a large shell-crater , an old one . |
| 20 | ‘ Many of them who had pensions and medals and jobs later could n't tell one end of a gun from the other . |
| 21 | If someone did n't own up to it , he 'd get all of them who had used that particular hut over the previous month , trying to find who had used that bandage and not reported it . |
| 22 | This expedition , in addition to proving a new method of jungle warfare , did another great thing for British troops : it convinced them of the friendliness of the people of Burma , for many of them who had fought through the 1942 campaign had prejudiced memories of those hard days . |
| 23 | I could n't get it out of them who had paid for her , but old Alex the cleaner told me on the side : Boswell , Slim Boswell . ’ |
| 24 | In spite of Hazel 's efforts beside the snare , there was not one of them who had not turned sick at heart to think that Bigwig was dead and wondered , like Blackberry , what would become of them now . |
| 25 | Gwion was the only one of them who had a sword . |
| 26 | Until every single one of them who had not gone in , apart from Joshua and Caleb died . |
| 27 | She 'd received only two or three serious propositions throughout her marriage — serious in the sense of coming from a man of intelligence and sensitivity — and to one of them she had yielded , in a matter of weeks . |
| 28 | And he would think how to each of them she had her proper place , to the left of the Town Clock or to the right of the water-rower — one single , certain planet shining across all the roofs of England . |
| 29 | Several of them she had given to Scarlet , stipulating that she must pluck and draw them herself . |
| 30 | Some of them I had never seen before and some were there to satisfy their curiosity . |