Example sentences of "the germans had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans had also noticed the canisters and were directing fairly accurate mortar and shell fire in and around the dropping zone , to prevent the Commandos , or anyone else , picking them up . |
| 2 | He had hardly finished his remark when there was a terrifying roar overhead as a salvo of shells crashed into the area near to where the Germans had been mortaring . |
| 3 | As I stared at the German with the white flag , I remembered ( as no doubt the five Frenchmen lying beside me also remembered ) a short time ago in Amfreville a small party of Germans had surrendered and , as the Commando patrol approached , one of the Germans had lobbed a grenade , killing and wounding several members of the patrol . |
| 4 | Moreover , the Germans had no desire to be saddled with more of BAOR 's sector of the front : they had enough on their hands under-pinning the Dutch and Belgian corps , whose military worth they had good reasons to doubt in the late 1950s . |
| 5 | The Germans had got their priorities right . |
| 6 | The Germans had the Berlin Wall to dance on , the British had the Wembley pitch ; both events were part of the same great story of liberation . |
| 7 | ‘ We would n't if the Germans had refused as well . ’ |
| 8 | I had heard stories about a failed invasion attempt in 1940 , but a Russian NCO insisted that the Germans had planned some sort of operation against Churchill in a remote part of Norfolk in the autumn of 1943 . |
| 9 | If the Germans had got this far , the British Goverment would have wanted it kept under wraps . |
| 10 | However , the Germans had foreseen that possibility and they quickly extended their occupation of Italy . |
| 11 | My room was bare indeed , with merely a bed , no pillow , and one rough blanket ; the Germans had pillaged everything else . |
| 12 | By 1988 , however , the Germans had accepted the principle of EMU and worked within the debate to achieve their aims . |
| 13 | The Germans had long demanded that any putative European central bank must be ‘ independent ’ of government control . |
| 14 | The Germans had shifted their position since the writing of the Delors Report : where they had previously wanted ‘ binding rules ’ for budget deficits , they now called for ‘ sanctions ’ to be available to the Community as a means of enforcing the bank 's decisions on recalcitrant member states . |
| 15 | The peoples of Europe would come together only when the Germans had found their national unity . |
| 16 | By that time , the French had already built an extensive network in North Africa , the Uganda Railway was under construction , the Germans had begun their railways in both Tanganyika and South West Africa , and the British had driven their railway through the Sudan as part of their reconquest of the upper Nile . |
| 17 | After the almost total defeat of the Italians in North Africa by General O'Connor in January 1941 , the Germans had decided to send an Afrika Korps to bolster their allies . |
| 18 | The Germans had closed off the route to the north of the Qattara Depression which the convoy had taken on their outward trip , so they were forced to make a risky and difficult passage through the bottom of the Depression itself , which consisted of salt marsh . |
| 19 | Later in the day it was said that the Germans had refused to issue any more food parcels for the rest of the week . |
| 20 | The Germans had allowed us to walk between the huts until midnight . |
| 21 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 22 | I think the Germans had been after ‘ Salt Peter ’ , but they got the empty coal yard and one or two small buses instead . |
| 23 | That could however have been also due to the fact that on her third night in this world , although the Germans had never previously visited Hertfordshire , we got a bomb on the front of the hospital . |
| 24 | When the long-awaited Invasion finally started , we were sure that the lives which had been lost were now going to be partly justified , because the boot was definitely on the other foot and the Germans had had it . |
| 25 | But the Germans had paratroopers so the British had no alternative . |
| 26 | The Germans had their problems launching V2 rockets . |
| 27 | With the single exception of the Polish Gymnazium in Kulm , the Germans had a total monopoly on higher education . |
| 28 | Since the days of Frederick the Great the Germans had been brought up to believe that the Poles were drunken , brutish and in every way inferior . |
| 29 | that the Germans had tidied it up a bit and turned it into a garden . |
| 30 | Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office . |