Example sentences of "[vb past] they had [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | MPMR leaders stated in a news conference that they did not regret their past actions and believed they had assisted in the defeat of the Pinochet dictatorship and the restoration of democracy . |
| 2 | The RUC at first believed they had died in the fire , but it started a murder investigation three days later . |
| 3 | The police claimed they had acted in self-defence . |
| 4 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 5 | Outside the windows all was darkness and she understood they had stopped in the tunnel . |
| 6 | Meredith , trying to use her bump of direction thought they had gone in a circle and as far as she could tell through teeming rain and darkness , were in the middle of the open moor or common . |
| 7 | Pat Hanson , who led the successful Hall Garth team Vanessa Conning , Gail Hall , Mark Jackson , Tom Newbould and Keith Webber said they had put in a lot of hard work . |
| 8 | I bet the MPs wished they had invested in electrification . |
| 9 | Miserable wheatears looked as if they wished they had stayed in Africa . |