Example sentences of "past they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zuwaya claimed that in the past they had recognized no internal sovereign , and in this matter they seem to have been right . |
| 2 | In the past they had been happy to sit and watch the match all afternoon ( even if that meant dying from the cold ! ) . |
| 3 | In their new patriotism and hero-worship they were ready to undergo discipline and do hard work , two duties which in the past they had been accused of lacking . |
| 4 | In the past they had spoken out and would do so again , drawing inspiration from the ideas of democracy and science to help China modernise . |
| 5 | Steele 's starting point was that slaves as much as all other men were subject to the law of human behaviour which said that conduct could be modified through the deployment of rewards and punishments ; the point of his experiment was to offer rewards to his slaves for defined tasks when in the past they had primarily experienced punishment . |
| 6 | In the past they had waited until after the school screening tests at 7-plus but felt that this was leaving it too late . |
| 7 | In the past they had a degree of self-doubt because many realized that they owed their position to factors other than merit . |
| 8 | In the past they had reported to the tsar every month , but by the end of 1861 newspapers had complicated their task to such an extent that they were reporting daily . |
| 9 | In the past they had been told that there was no market for it , but we decided to supply them . |