Example sentences of "but they had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever he spoke to the woman he regretted that he had not stamped his authority and demanded that Gwen should be released from Leconfield and transferred with him , but they had said in Century 's personnel that he must have a secretary who knew the ropes of the Service , and he had acquiesced . |
| 2 | The Brigantes had held it once , against the Romans , but they had retreated to the mountains and left it to gorse and the bracken . |
| 3 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 4 | But they had reckoned without Sister Murphy . |
| 5 | The team felt that , despite the scoreline , they were in a good position at this point but they had reckoned without the depth and strength of the Borders batting . |
| 6 | But they had come to the door of her apartment and the moment was here and now , impossible to delay . |
| 7 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 8 | A US State Department statement at the end of the meeting said that significant differences remained between the two sides , but they had agreed on the importance of ending the war peacefully . |
| 9 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 10 | She had n't mentioned it , but they had talked of other things . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They had never been close friends but they had got on well ; lately , however , a gap had opened . |
| 13 | She had offered Dora and Lyddy a holiday , a chance to go back to their families on their inland farms , but they had refused with dignity . |