Example sentences of "the girls had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls had the freshly cut bread , butter and milk on the table . |
| 2 | The girls had washed and put away the cups and plates , covered the few squares of sandwiches that remained with a damp cloth . |
| 3 | One of the girls had to come to the door to call him . |
| 4 | The girls had never been taught to cook or housekeep . |
| 5 | The offers came among a number of other lesser positions that the girls had applied for . |
| 6 | After Luke and then Maggie had left for London there were still enough people to dull the heartache and emptiness but now that all the girls had gone it was as if the whole house had been cleaned . |
| 7 | Once , at school , the girls had amused themselves by putting together the perfect woman , and Jane had been surprised when they chose her eyes , which were large and brown . |
| 8 | But the girls had eyes only for Dana 's beauty and sexy demeanour , which that night was particularly James Deanish . |
| 9 | A hurricane lamp and a pinpoint of light from a torch were all the girls had to guide them across the sleepers and rails . |
| 10 | And on many of the occasions I had the distinct impression that the girls had dressed up too : one girl wore a big hat , another a beautiful sari in purple and black , another wore DM boots and a big overcoat ; many wore make-up , jewellery and perfume . |
| 11 | The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ . |
| 12 | The girls had never met their father 's one-time patron , had never even heard of her . |
| 13 | Much of what the girls had to say functioned as a display of their involvement as readers . |
| 14 | The Girls had the third spot in the first half of a bill shared with George Robey , Harry Lauder , Little Titch and Anna Pavlova . |
| 15 | Another ten shillings was put aside for food ; they rarely learnt to cook as landladies preferred to prepare the food the Girls had bought . |
| 16 | American companies decided to build new cinemas in Britain and as the reputation of the Girls had already been made in the States , they were eager to book Tiller troupes . |
| 17 | One Head Girl found her team circling round the stage once as rehearsed but then galloping straight off stage to the lavatories ; apparently one of the Girls had realized that she had a sudden attack of diarrhoea and had acted with unheard-of initiative . |
| 18 | Both the girls had started to turn pink . |
| 19 | The girls had got over their initial shock , and shrieked with excitement as they thrust at everything that moved . |
| 20 | Like the twelfth floor , glimpsed through the lift doors when the girls had got out , the walls were covered with a pale lemon wash , unlike the twelfth they were hung with pictures , not Old Masters but not Boots the chemists either — prints of hunting scenes and ships and a beautiful soft sunset over a bay that might have been St Ives — pictures deemed suitable for the Executive floor of a great international company . |
| 21 | As the girls had grown older things had not improved . |
| 22 | Judging by the loud protests when the girls had to be evacuated to Norfolk , the enterprise lived up to the best expectations . |
| 23 | All I knew at that stage was that the girls had drowned in a sailing accident . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd come home and find things like the kitchen practically blown apart because the girls had put a tinned steak and kidney pudding in the oven and forgotten to take its lid off , ’ he laughs . |
| 25 | ‘ The girls had taken my truck for their trip , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , is n't that a terrible poor ibex ! ’ exclaimed Mrs Healy , having identified easily what the girls had been looking at . |
| 27 | ‘ I just prayed the girls had got out somehow . ’ |
| 28 | Post mortem examinations were carried out to discover if the girls had been still born or died later . |
| 29 | THE girls had little chance of escape once the blaze took hold . |
| 30 | ‘ A few seconds earlier the girls had been skipping and laughing . ’ |