Example sentences of "[subord] they had [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the drawing room , where they had drunk their pre-dinner sherry , Dalgliesh had a sense of a room which deliberately rejected the past , containing nothing which could violate the owner 's essential privacy ; no family history in photograph or portrait , no shabby heirlooms given room out of nostalgia , sentimentality or family piety , no antiques collected over the years . |
| 2 | Once Eric was in the car they had driven towards Soragna , then by a roundabout route to a big plantation of poplars near the right bank of the Po , where they had directed him to a well-hidden place in the middle . |
| 3 | Her 12 years of compulsory schooling had left her exactly where they had found her — locked into the social and economic limitations of the milieu in which she was born . |
| 4 | Gilbert had scurried back to Rohmer and Jimmy could see that Rohmer was still sitting on the desk near the back double-doors where they had left him . |
| 5 | He was standing where they had left him , a long way back now , gazing after them . |
| 6 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 7 | On the day on which he had lost her he had sat for hours on the bed in the attic where she had lived during her time with him , and where they had shared their afternoon of love , and now , on the evening of the second day , he sat there again . |
| 8 | In Bamburgh castle , where they had carried him from Wooler as soon as he was fit to be moved , the earl of Douglas took his ease in a very light and illustrious captivity . |
| 9 | His father had wounded another bull in the same herd , but not mortally , and although they had tracked it by a faint blood trail for an hour , in the end , to the senator 's ill-concealed irritation , they had been forced to abandon the search . |
| 10 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 11 | Mr Knight also acknowledged that a suitable high-speed pick-up machine was not yet available from a commercial manufacturer although they had shown their own adaptation with a high speed paddle rotor swept up all materials including small particles . |
| 12 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |
| 13 | I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time . |
| 14 | If so they had done nothing about it . |
| 15 | And so they had sent him North , not to win , of course , perhaps not even to poll a single vote , but to lay the Charter once again before the people , to let them know what could be done in a land where every man had his vote and the freedom to use it without intimidation , as he and he alone thought best . |
| 16 | Rufus had called her a waif and Adam had immediately ridiculed this word , said it was a romantic novelist 's word , so they had looked it up in Hilbert 's Shorter Oxford Dictionary and found illuminating things . |
| 17 | They were constructing a series of weirs upstream , so they had told her at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , which would eventually control this annual predator , but for this year , at least , it surged down irresistibly as ever , biting acres out of its banks as it cornered , like a ferocious animal frustrated . |
| 18 | Once they had pretended they were childhood sweethearts , played at falling in love , but of course it had all ended in laughter . |
| 19 | Bonds of this type were not entirely unprecedented ; in 1466 , for example , during the minority of James III , the Boyds had used them to create support for their seizure of the young king , and then dropped their allies once they had achieved their end . |
| 20 | Once the two fathers had signed , once they had seen their names written in the register of marriages , it was irrevocable . |
| 21 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 22 | Once they had made their inferences they tended to use any manpower they had to follow them up . |
| 23 | To add to the senseless tragedy , the Japanese did n't really know what to do with all the dolphin carcasses once they had killed them . |
| 24 | Dacia was not strong enough to beat off the barbarians , and not rich enough to satisfy them once they had conquered it . |
| 25 | She held her breath until they passed by , but once they had gone she felt safe . |
| 26 | Once they had sealed their leader 's fate , after her poor first ballot in the 1990 leadership contest , Mr Garel-Jones declared his support for Douglas Hurd . |
| 27 | Once they had had their own barracks , their own surgeons . |
| 28 | Once they had set their feet on the path they tumbled down bold and bouncy as puppies . |
| 29 | Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel . |
| 30 | Soon the chicks were big enough to be out and about , and once they had left their mother , they began to exhibit her wild characteristics , wandering recklessly far up the fields into territory frequented by foxes . |