Example sentences of "[noun sg] they had [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |
| 2 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 3 | About twenty metres down from the top , Priestley realized that the tin they had left in the cairn in fact contained their exposed photographic plates , and that what they were carrying down with them was the tin containing the record of their ascent . |
| 4 | There was nothing left of the friendship they had known in Barnswick . |
| 5 | In the early days of their marriage they had lived in the very heart of London , close to the centres of business , art and culture . |
| 6 | Producers desperately needed to find new outlets for the capacity they had installed in the boom times . |
| 7 | They took a boat trip to see the seals , and in the evening they went back to the camp and lit a picnic-type disposable barbecue and ate burgers and sausages and fresh crunchy salad they had bought in Blakeney . |
| 8 | They never found him and I often wondered whether he went in with his machine and dead gunner or whether he managed to bale out and was picked up by the flyingboat they had stationed in Sicily for sea rescue work . ’ |
| 9 | A recent survey found only three out of ten women started a business of the same type they had worked in previously . |
| 10 | Perhaps because he spent so much of his time alone , he told me all about his wife , his two children , the home they had bought in Sanderstown , how long he had been married , where the children went to school — all the details of life in a town of about 60,000 people . |
| 11 | The Australian Unwins , sitting with the rival owners of Flokati , were concerned about a lifelessness they had detected in Upper Gumtree due to the fact that on the train their horse had been fed a restricted diet of compressed food nuts and high-grade hay and the Flokati people were cheerfully saying that on so long a stretch without exercise , good hay was best . |
| 12 | Among their many friends was one Walter Lassally , a young film cameraman they had met in Greece shortly after their marriage , when he was filming The Girl in Black . |
| 13 | But by the middle of the nineteenth century they had lost most of even the symbolic importance they had had in earlier generations . |
| 14 | From about 1909 he was a friend of ( Sir ) John Beazley [ q.v. ] , with whom he once combined to buy a Sienese picture they had discovered in a dealer 's ; and he often travelled in Italy to look at pictures , sometimes in the company of his friend Scholfield . |
| 15 | My father and mother perhaps saw in him the son they would have liked to have , not the peculiar failure they had produced in me . |
| 16 | They remained fearful of the opening of any loophole that would more easily expose them to fraud or abuse of the credit they had extended in good faith . |
| 17 | FitzAlan would only snap at her anyway , as he had been doing from the minute they had risen in the half-light of a chilly grey dawn . |
| 18 | On Aug. 26 some 150 immigrants from Ethiopia were persuaded to abandon a march and hunger strike they had begun in protest at overcrowding in the Ashkelon holiday village where they were temporarily housed . |
| 19 | ENGLAND 'S women golfers duly added the Home International championship to their European Team title they had won in Holland earlier in the season when they defeated Scotland 5–3 at Hermitage yesterday . |
| 20 | She saw him on the morning they had sat in the sun outside the cottage door . |
| 21 | The Communist Party felt that there was still much resentment against the Liberals in the Labour Party for the role they had played in 1931 . |
| 22 | They , by contrast , did not have to return the money they had received in compensation from the Republic . |
| 23 | The rebels controlled a broad band of northern and north-western Spain , extending eastwards into Aragon but excluding most of the north coast ; in addition they had triumphed in the Canaries , in Mallorca and Ibiza , in Spanish Morocco , and in pockets of Andalusia including four of its principal cities and the southernmost tip of the Spanish mainland between Cádiz and Algeciras . |
| 24 | Until she let go , finally , of the memory of that sensual paradise they had shared in Phuket and bowed , defeated , before the brutal ambition of Hong Kong . |
| 25 | For half an hour they had lain in each other 's arms in the creaking guest-house bed , too scared with happiness to move . |
| 26 | Although everyone hoped that the wealth , status , income they had acquired in trade or government service would endure , they were uncertain of them ; in contrast they were quite sure that their kinship loyalties and obligations were fixed and permanent . |
| 27 | Lowe had worked as a researcher for the Financial Times , Hayling had done his stint with the BBC , and of course they had dabbled in the Big Flame paper and other fringe publications . |
| 28 | What became real to her was not Therese Aschmann , but the tiny diamond and garnet engagement ring Willi had bought in a shop at the back of St Stephen 's Cathedral , and Gerda 's delight , and the luck they had had in getting two cancellation seats at the Staatsoper for a performance of Figaro , and the elegance of their hotel , and the toy truck they had bought for Georg , which had been so large they 'd had trouble getting it home . |
| 29 | Through their hold over the nine main lines fanning out from Moscow to all points of the compass they had succeeded in cutting off one White force from another in the Civil War . |
| 30 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |