Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary Estlin 's Bristol and Clifton Ladies ' Anti-Slavery Society also warmed to the changed tone of Broad Street although they had broken from them barely a year earlier . |
| 2 | The British Communists and the large group of supporters they had built around them could not sidestep the problem . |
| 3 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 4 | But the novelists had never heard of Marx and Engels — and if they had heard of them and their ideas , they would probably have recoiled in horror , perceiving the threat to their own privileged position . |
| 5 | Dealers would try to get other dealers sacked from rival firms , even if they had worked with them once . |
| 6 | On the coach , as it headed north up the Woodstock Road , and thence out on to the A34 , the members of the touring party were mostly silent , their thoughts monopolised perhaps by the strange and tragic events they had left behind them in Oxford . |
| 7 | The Caribbeans who came to London in the main waves of migration in the 1950s and early 1960s were not on the whole from the lowest social classes , although " the employment made available to West Indians was mainly menial and often of lower status than the jobs they had left behind them in the West Indies " ( Dalphinis 1991 : 46 ) . |
| 8 | Owen had a badly gashed forearm , Cynan some splinters of his own shaft lodged deep under his ribs , and all of them minor cuts and bruises ; but they had left behind them on the crest several of their enemies wounded by lances and arrows , some probably dead . |
| 9 | Last weekend she had gone home to visit her parents , and had come back with a huge bag crammed with brightly wrapped parcels from her mother and father , her three older , married sisters , and all the nieces and nephews they had produced between them . |
| 10 | But in the first half the United defence took everything they had thrown at them . |
| 11 | And they had blundered into them , half-blinded by the wind-driven snow . |
| 12 | The family spent the summer of 1948 in the Lebanese hill resort of Aley , living on 7,000 pounds they had taken with them from Palestine . |
| 13 | In Fredegar 's narrative Childeric was exiled from the Franks for his sexual profligacy , but he arranged with his faithful follower , Wiomad , that he would return when the latter had sent him half a coin which they had divided between them . |
| 14 | But overall , where girls were still in close contact with their parents , which the majority were , they were strong in praise of all the invaluable support and help , both financial and emotional , that they had got from them . |
| 15 | A full record of the secret messages they had passed between them . |
| 16 | When they had passed by they wheeled and formed a huge square lined by all the officers and flags , and then Negus Mikael was brought in . |
| 17 | ‘ To the lighthouse ’ had been our motto , and there we went , leading George , while the others made up a fire and roasted whole the lamb they had brought with them for a picnic luncheon . |
| 18 | When they had recovered they hurriedly cooked and ate the ration of cold rice they had brought with them from the barracks and swallowed a mouthful or two of water . |
| 19 | The Gnomes had rolled the designs for the new Crown Jewels into cylinders and packed them carefully into long , hollow tubes , which they had brought with them for the purpose . |
| 20 | They wanted to stop then and there for the Sabbath — they and all the little stock they had brought with them . |