Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] they had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did it mean that Germany and the countries associated with her would be let in until they had purged their crimes . |
| 2 | The huge padlock seemed oddly out of place for anyone could have broken in if they had wished . |
| 3 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 4 | Two of my other men came running over and they had to pin me to the ground . |
| 5 | And both seemed to be over before they had begun . |
| 6 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 7 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 8 | Although the HLCA was being cut , he insisted increases in other grants meant farmers would be better off than they had thought . |
| 9 | Panicky observers murmured that the market was even worse off than they had feared . |
| 10 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 11 | In this case Woolwich would , in relation to the revenue , have been no worse off if they had refused payment of the tax claimed and raised the defence which subsequently proved successful . |
| 12 | Rogers held off until they had climbed to twelve thousand , then prowled about , searching for an easy target . |
| 13 | However , after a series of wrong turnings , Laura lost her way and , an hour later , ended up where they had started . |
| 14 | She and Johnny could not simply pick up where they had left off . |
| 15 | other things had gone up so they had to put the fares up , but I mean that 's , you can nae tell me that that 's right |
| 16 | Or perhaps he cheered up and they had to get rid of him . |
| 17 | She made a deliberate effort to relax : they would both have blown up if they had had to sit like that all evening , she thought . |
| 18 | I mean he 'd ha he had a pack up but they had to have money to buy ra |
| 19 | ‘ You should go take Spanish at night school , ’ he said one evening in the Airds ' downstairs lavatory when we were clearing up after they had gone out to dine . |
| 20 | The driver dropped off a man or two at dunes that had drifted on to the road and would then go back and pick them up when they had finished , before taking them further south . |
| 21 | ‘ Sorry to haul you off , girl , ’ Mr Hollins said in a low voice , ‘ But I reckoned it would be more comfortable for everyone if I got you out afore they had to start making excuses . |
| 22 | Stretched out where they had fallen , the last three members of the once invincible Hellhounds killer pack stared sightlessly after their executioner — a far more efficient and dangerous killer than Nature had ever equipped them to be at the height of their savage power . |
| 23 | They were right back where they had started . |
| 24 | Girls who are very aware of parental disapproval may not feel able to take this step and also not want to run the risk of parents somehow finding out that they had gone to the doctor or the clinic . |
| 25 | She did n't point out that they had to go back the way they had come , and when he reached into the back and handed her a water container she drank gladly . |
| 26 | The closed blades were not smeared with blood , and nothing about the scissors screamed out that they had taken a human life . |
| 27 | It turned out that they had come to consult me . |
| 28 | It was on another run , we got another coach come back so they had to go out to where the one it was |
| 29 | Having slept better that night , Fabia awakened on Tuesday and thought of Ven , thought of Cara and of Barney , and would dearly have liked to telephone her parents to find out if they had heard anything from her sister . |
| 30 | They sang together , played by ear on the old upright that someone from the big house had thrown out and they had retrieved . |