Example sentences of "they [vb past] that they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early this year they announced that they had found the 17 keV neutrino again , with a far greater degree of sensitivity than any previous experiment . |
| 2 | The next day , they admitted that they had miscounted and that ‘ in the period June 27-August 9 … the numbers of persons detained for the whole range of offences connected with public order were loyalists 468 ; republicans 427 ’ . |
| 3 | It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition . |
| 4 | By the application of good marine logic — tasting the water and finding it salty , then making sure the ebb — and flood-tides were of equal strength ( both tests which argued against this body of water being a river ) they realized that they had , indeed , discovered the way through . |
| 5 | In particular they agreed that they had entered into private compensation deals with their larger investors , in contravention of a voluntary self-regulation agreement imposed by the government in December 1989 after the Recruit scandal [ for which see pp. 36463-64 ; 36589 ] , paying a total of 43,500 million yen ( about US$315,000,000 ) to 78 clients between March 1990 and March 1991 , to make up for trading losses resulting from their investment advice . |
| 6 | During that two hours they realised that they had much in common . |
| 7 | They realised that they had to tighten everything up , an approach which was helped immeasurably by the mid-second half arrival of Dean Richards . |
| 8 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 9 | When Cato 's supporters arrived at court they found that they had been pre-empted . |
| 10 | They had welcomed the Restoration of Charles II , who himself had once signed the Presbyterian Solemn League and Covenant , and in the negotiations which led to the Restoration they believed that they had received assurances that they would retain their benefices . |
| 11 | In other words , some women defined themselves out of the labour market because they felt that they were unlikely to get paid work or because they believed that they had no right to paid work . |
| 12 | They assumed that they had been moved into the area these smells were coming from and , in an endeavour to return to the loft , those with olive oil on their bills flew north , while those with turpentine on flew south . |
| 13 | He protested that it was totally impossible and they replied that they had evidence to make certain that he would be convicted . |
| 14 | They reckoned that they had already entered into their reign with Christ : they were already rich already filled with the powers of the Age to Come ( 1 Cor 4:8 ) Paul comes down immediately like a ton of bricks on this attitude which regards the Spirit as a medium of religious experience or an embodiment of supernatural power , rather than as the vocation to and equipment for the role of the Servant . |
| 15 | They surrendered at Rome airport on Aug. 30 after receiving assurances they would not be deported to Ethiopia , where they claimed that they had suffered political persecution . |
| 16 | They discovered that they had one area of 4 m 2 and two of 3 m 2 . |
| 17 | Dutifully she and Luke followed Anna and Sam through the house ; they discovered that they had both visited it several times in the past . |
| 18 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
| 19 | Some of them had gotten to greater than 400°C , so they decided that they had better cool the reactor . ’ |
| 20 | They decided that they had . |
| 21 | The Lords of the Treasury , Wilson said , regretted that this was ‘ not altogether in accordance ’ with the recommendations of the Select Committee , but they felt that they had no alternative . |
| 22 | They felt that they had a much stronger position than before and that a certain amount of muscle flexing was now unavoidable if they were not to lose face with their supporters . |
| 23 | Sometimes they felt that they had no worth or purpose . |
| 24 | A motion which would have specifically committed ] the party against fusion was not put on the chairman 's decision ; the diehards accepted this ruling without demur , no doubt because they felt that they had already made their point . |
| 25 | Once employed , they became difficult to dismiss either for reasons of inefficiency or economy , not only because they felt that they had acquired a vested interest in the job , but also because they " possessed information which would have been very useful to the union 's opponents " . |
| 26 | As none of the Company 's depôts was yet ready , they pleaded that they had nowhere to put them and after discussion , the Corporation agreed to let them remain at Thornton Heath until their own new cars arrived , provided that they were permitted to use them in service on their main line , to compensate for the mileage worked by Corporation cars in Penge . |
| 27 | And they knew that they had acquired their theories of the relation between schooling and life from their parents . |
| 28 | He they knew that they had a great sense of the weather themselves after being out in it . |
| 29 | But I wonder if I wonder if Chris and Andy , cos Chris and Andy 's half brother is Steven who 's Debbie 's husband , I 'm wondering if they knew that they had different fathers . |
| 30 | Then , just when they thought that they had finished and were about to leave the room , up pipes a small Scottish voice in the corner which says , ’ What about Scotland ? ’ |