Example sentences of "and [noun pl] that they had " in BNC.

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1 The companies vied with each other to find new settings for the basic story-lines and messages that they had to put over .
2 Venturing to the second stage , they could have their names and homelands recorded on a list published the follow ing day in Le Figaro de la Tour Eiffel certain proof to less privileged friends and relatives that they had indeed visited this engineering marvel — or could pen lines of poetry for inclusion in the same journal .
3 The bitterness and the troubles of the coal mines for the next seven , or for that matter twenty-seven years , derived in great part from the feeling of both miners and owners that they had been betrayed .
4 The treatments that were thus superseded have been touched upon in Chapter 2 , but suffice it to say that there was general and unqualified relief from both doctors and patients that they had passed .
5 The three Service Chiefs welcomed his preference for evolution rather than continuing and abrasive revolution , but the doubts and suspicions that they had about Mountbatten 's impartiality made it difficult for him to rebuild complete confidence between his staff at the Ministry of Defence and the Service ministries .
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