Example sentences of "had [vb pp] with their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The original plan had been to leave all the top posts open , with a promise to find people as soon as the investors had parted with their cash . |
| 2 | They had sat with their friends and heard the vilification of Hitler and the Third Reich at dinner parties , in the cinemas , on television and in books and newspapers . |
| 3 | By this stage Gloucester was securely in control , while the Woodvilles ' influence had collapsed with their loss of the prince . |
| 4 | By this stage Gloucester was securely in control , while the Woodvilles ' influence had collapsed with their loss of the prince . |
| 5 | There was no buzz of conversation ; most of the students had scattered with their plates of food and were sitting around eating in silence . |
| 6 | The Czechoslovak , Hungarian and Polish Economy Ministers had met with their German , Austrian and Swiss counterparts in Salzburg , Austria , on Sept. 14 , the first meeting of its kind , and had been promised that the west European participants were ready to increase efforts to help eastern and central European states to improve their economies . |
| 7 | Shinwell had been heard to declare that " he held the seamen of the Clyde in the hollow of his hand " and that English ports were also dissatisfied with Wilson 's autocratic methods and ready to break away if he did not tell them what he had done with their money . |
| 8 | She got a glimpse of a different life , a different marriage between two good , kind , ordinary people — perhaps not so ordinary when one thought what they had done with their farm . |
| 9 | We are not concerned here with the morality of such actions but there is no doubt that most of the people evicted did not want to leave their home , a home that they or their forebears had built with their own hands and enlarged as the family increased . |
| 10 | The room was full of mementoes of her childhood — Arthur Ransome books and with the model rubber horses she had collected with their individually dressed riders , her collections of postcards and a whole rack of old Elvis Presley records . |
| 11 | The same problem arose with patients who reproduced , unconsciously , early painful relationships they had had with their parents in their relationship with their analysts . |
| 12 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 13 | When he had retired with their order and the drinks waiter had served them with lime daiquiris , Barney planted his elbows on the table and leaned towards Melissa . |
| 14 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
| 15 | By the time the armed police had arrived , the kidnappers had disappeared with their victims , deep into the forests that surround St Petersburg . |
| 16 | Or perhaps they had gone with their people to comfort them . |
| 17 | Just under half ( 48% ) of women marrying for the first time in 1987 had lived with their husbands prior to marriage compared with 19% of those marrying in the late 1970s and only 7% of those marrying in 1971 . |
| 18 | Bradshaw and Millar ( 1991 ) found that about 17 per cent of the single mothers in their sample had lived with their former partners before becoming a lone parent . |