Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kislevites were driven to wild fury by what they had witnessed in Praag , and the Chaos army began to crumble before their implacable anger . |
| 2 | This was intended to help them return to civilian life until they round employment and , to conform with the allowances they had received in the services , this sum included additions for dependants . |
| 3 | They , by contrast , did not have to return the money they had received in compensation from the Republic . |
| 4 | They remained fearful of the opening of any loophole that would more easily expose them to fraud or abuse of the credit they had extended in good faith . |
| 5 | But there was no getting away from it ; the overwhelming feeling was one of relief , because if they had ridden in together they would undoubtedly have been spotted . |
| 6 | They had invested in junk in the first place because of government policy , accounting for 7% of bonds outstanding at the end of 1988 . |
| 7 | I bet the MPs wished they had invested in electrification . |
| 8 | Throughout the 1930s Hollywood was to make films condemning various abuses and malpractices in the American system and there were always to be films which clung to the conventions of the city film as they had emerged in the early part of the decade . |
| 9 | But it was very clear that the Irish were not playing with the conviction they had demonstrated in Dunedin . |
| 10 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 11 | When the Bohemians realised the mistake they had made in electing Ferdinand , they deposed him and elected in his place the Palatine Elector , Frederick V , a weak if romantic figure . |
| 12 | Back in Cairo , Stirling found headquarters sunk in despondency , having lost all the gains they had made in December . |
| 13 | Macnab went on holiday to Berlin with a letter from Joyce to Christian Bauer , a contact whom they had made in London and who was said to be on good terms with Goebbels . |
| 14 | The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such , more like crustaceans , specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature , but still clinging to their old habitat , sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore . |
| 15 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |
| 16 | By the mid-1920s they no longer had the harsh appearance that they had developed in the immediate pre-war years … |
| 17 | In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance . |
| 18 | Murderers , bank robbers , gangsters , swindlers , dope pedlars , arms traffickers , terrorists , kidnappers ; ‘ bent ’ bankers , accountants , lawyers , politicians and policemen ; dead , alive , in gaol or simply missing — if they had appeared in print , and often if they had not , he had them filed . |
| 19 | Sheriff Scott told the youths they had appeared in court on a very serious charge , but appeared to have learned from the experience . |
| 20 | Since February when they had chatted in Portuguese , she had seen the racing driver just twice . |
| 21 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |
| 22 | They had suffered in the Civil War from requisitioning by Red , White , and Green armies , and to some extent from the Bolshevik-inspired kombedy ( committees of poor peasants ) . |
| 23 | DELIGHT , elation and relief greeted the news of the government 's decision to compensate investors for the bulk of the losses they had suffered in the collapse of Barlow Clowes . |
| 24 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 25 | Meredith , trying to use her bump of direction thought they had gone in a circle and as far as she could tell through teeming rain and darkness , were in the middle of the open moor or common . |
| 26 | Unlike the increases of the early 1930s , this jump was caused by the revival of stealing networks , mainly in those areas where they had prevailed in the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Several leading nobles by this truce lost control of , and revenues from , estates which they had possessed in Scotland : they were naturally inclined to emphasize its temporary nature . |
| 28 | They had kept in their service underforesters who were habitual poachers , cut down trees and underwood in large quantities , and kept the proceeds of sale for themselves . |
| 29 | They had wanted no part of the terror and the bloodshed , and they had hidden in the mountains and the caves and the remote Northern Isles . |
| 30 | MPMR leaders stated in a news conference that they did not regret their past actions and believed they had assisted in the defeat of the Pinochet dictatorship and the restoration of democracy . |