Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So they never lived long enough to know I had justified their faith in me . ’ |
| 2 | I could print out pictures of the insects ' bodies , but I had lost their genes . |
| 3 | Yeah I had to iron their blouses as well forgot the blouses did n't I ? |
| 4 | As I had expected their conversation was an example of golfing humour at its best . |
| 5 | Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech . |
| 6 | ‘ The following afternoon I was to be found in Green Park near Buckingham Palace with two ‘ smart ’ ladies in tow , the Hon Mrs This and That , and I had to photograph their hats . |
| 7 | Before Mikey had swung the bus around and brought it to a stop she had seen their pale faces in the wet night , the two umbrellas . |
| 8 | She had seen their craft land only minutes earlier and had placed herself deliberately here where they would have to pass her . |
| 9 | Poor Daisy , disapproved of from both sides ( for Joszef 's family had still not come round , though she had adopted their religion ) . |
| 10 | They would never be able to say that she had accepted their charity . |
| 11 | She still giggled girlishly and reverted to the old tomboy type during TV and radio appearances , cleverly signalling to her fans that even if she had become their older sister , she was still their favourite sister . |
| 12 | She had ruined their relationship , and she would live with the pain of that for the rest of her life . |
| 13 | She had ended their relationship by rediscovering the ability to speak and berating his sexual performance . |
| 14 | She had ended their four-year relationship three weeks earlier . |
| 15 | Although Walton the head coachman still drove her mother-in-law , the few times that Tamar had driven out , she had used their coach and pair from the days at Helmsley , with Goodison to drive her . |
| 16 | Mary protected women-of strong feeling ; she had known their experience of suffering , from the inside , and she still knew it ; women 's passions , not just the Passion of her son , were her province , devotion like Carmellina 's her special knowledge . |
| 17 | She had known their affair had to end or it would destroy them both , but now that it was about to do so , she was terrified of a future in which there would be no Luke , not even Luke causing her unhappiness . |
| 18 | It was from the card inside that she had learned their first names : Teodor and Sophie . |
| 19 | But Katie confesses that she had to forget their friendship in the heat of the battle . |
| 20 | Highlights from the past include 400 class members ( clad in blue tunics , what else ? ) taking part in the 1968 Norfolk Show in the presence of Queen Elizabeth , the Queen Mother , who remarked later in the day to some class members how much she had enjoyed their display , and Norfolk 's Jubilee Rally in 1977 , when Molly Braithwaite was presented with a bouquet from Norfolk 's oldest class member , 82 year old Mrs Grapes . |
| 21 | That same night she had gone to Yeoman 's Lane for the last time , accepting without pain that she had thought their love was untouchable , yet now it was as if it had never been . |
| 22 | She had suggested their earning their living by doing odd jobs — ‘ as factotums ’ , she had said , and Susan , always particular about such things , had corrected her . |
| 23 | Their mother had made a career out of being cosseted since she had left their father . |
| 24 | She had left their supper ready on the kitchen table : a plate of bread and dripping covered with a cloth and a jug of milk with a note propped against it . |
| 25 | She had used inexperienced girls with no make-up , she had shown their deliberately unshaven armpits , she had dressed them in creased and crumpled frocks — the mood shot taken to its logical conclusion , perhaps , as well as an echo of her mother 's antipathy towards using professional models , but a far cry from the traditional ‘ Laura Ashley ’ image of strawberries-and-cream-tea on the lawn . |
| 26 | Fenna loved Maggie , and knowing that all was lost and love had departed , that she had betrayed their long friendship , that she had asserted herself over his mastery , he howled and , dropping his shoulder , hurled her out of her safe nest and into the immensity of space . |
| 27 | [ A ] you had to remember their name , and greet them by name ; and [ B ] you had to remember their seat . |
| 28 | [ A ] you had to remember their name , and greet them by name ; and [ B ] you had to remember their seat . |
| 29 | Mind you , it meant that the bridewell sergeant had to make sure that the surgeon was on duty to sew their heads up , a few stitches , 'cos you had to sew their heads up . |
| 30 | Then you had to flitt them every day when the wool started to get loose on them you had to the tether would get in a and you had to clear their tethers . |