Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [num] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trading standards officers in Strathclyde and Lothian regions yesterday reported that they had received dozens of queries over the offer . |
| 2 | They had invested millions of dollars and lives in this war , and this meant that they could not extract themselves easily . |
| 3 | So , the desire for a yacht which would take him and his wife on a worldwide cruise , comfortably and quickly , led them to Warwick Collins after they had seen one of his previous yachts , called Fondue , a 38-footer ( 11.5m ) . |
| 4 | He said they had conducted hundreds of interviews and concluded that the charges were ‘ either concocted or imagined . ’ |
| 5 | The matron had told him that they had removed one of my legs and were going to have the other one off the following day . |
| 6 | They had chosen one of the coldest Decembers ever recorded in England to make their journey , and Coleridge , plagued once more with neuralgia and illness , was suffering at the time from a face ‘ monstrously swoln ’ . |
| 7 | They had found three of the four sacks of potatoes stolen in the gipsies ' camp on Rickling Heath , and one bag of oats , but no trace of the pony . |
| 8 | Westminster Abbey owned , or had a part interest in , twenty-three of the houses involved , in Crown Street , Crown Court and King Street , and by the time of the second schedule they had sold five of these to a private owner . |
| 9 | At the end of six months they had sold 300 of the 400 beds for £150 each . |
| 10 | If just one of them had sent one of their grandmothers , and I could come out of the sun , and if I could have a silenced chain-saw , then maybe it would be fair . |