Example sentences of "the russians had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russians had also had some problems in Beirut when four of their diplomats were abducted by the radical Hizbollah movement . |
| 2 | But there was even greater bitterness among many Lithuanian nationalists , who felt the Russians had never wanted to understand why the Lithuanians felt resentment against years of oppression . |
| 3 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |
| 4 | Security for the Russians had better be good . ’ |
| 5 | Whereas , in 1964 , the Russians had only about a quarter of America 's total of ICBM 's , six years later they had achieved parity . |