Example sentences of "them had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them had gotten to greater than 400°C , so they decided that they had better cool the reactor . ’ |
| 2 | The headlines included a row between two Conservative MPs over remarks one of them had made about the weight of the Princess of Wales , an attack on the Prime Minister by a junior bishop in the Church of England , a house fire in Cardiff , and the discovery of a woman 's body in South London . |
| 3 | After their release they said that they had been " kidnapped " by the authorities after two of them had written to the King warning of a plot by Col. Ahmed Dlimi , then one of his key advisers . |
| 4 | Though all of them had descended from families of wealth and influence , these were not public powers . |
| 5 | Exports to them had increased by 200 per cent and they were taking more than half of British exports.30 Colonial trade enabled Britain to pay for continued imports of linens , wines and timber from Europe with re-exported colonial products , which had been paid for by the export of domestic manufactures . |
| 6 | A couple of them had ridden in the Moon Beach chapter together . |
| 7 | Bearing in mind that they 're only six and seven in my class , er , and then talking erm , about how they travelled in cars , and and how many of them had ridden in the front seat , er , and most of them put their hands up , and I mean , the recommendation is that if you 're under twelve years of age , you should never ride in the front seat , and so on and so forth . |
| 8 | If one of them had escaped from Whitely we 'd have known about it , but three of the cunts ? |
| 9 | Ten of them had landed on the burnt-out branches of the witch trees and were silhouetted against the fiery red death . |
| 10 | More especially , I wondered at their risk when I learnt that some of them had landed across the Channel and were astonished to find that the natives did not speak English . |
| 11 | The exploration of the American west revealed many such areas , and efforts to preserve them had begun at an early stage . |
| 12 | There was a small group of young people who , as it happens were also associated with the bed-and-breakfast on Iffley Road , erm and several of them had moved between this house and the bed-and-breakfast . |
| 13 | They all belonged to golf clubs or sailing clubs , took their holidays abroad , and were devoted Masons ; two of them had stood for the local council . |
| 14 | William Joyce and the Communists between them had seen to that . |
| 15 | The terrible bitterness against his parents that had led to his writing a book meant to shock them had faded into indifference ; yet there lingered in him an understandable vindictiveness . |
| 16 | Two of them had gone to Oxford and then Bournemouth . |
| 17 | Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years . |
| 18 | Some of them had gone into trances , and questions were asked by many worried parents . |
| 19 | It makes little difference in any case , one of them had said to him once . |
| 20 | They used the skills acquired during the social science degree courses many of them had followed in the early 1970s to scrutinize rule books and exploit every line and loophole in their favour . |
| 21 | The embossed iron doors were rusting and one of them had fallen off its hinges . |
| 22 | Chelsea midfielder Dennis Wise sprinted to his defence last night and turned against their own supporters after a couple of them had complained to police that the United boss had sworn and made a V-sign . |
| 23 | And then one of them had rushed to the truck and talked into a machine on a string . |
| 24 | ‘ The 10 days ’ delay and the heavy casualties this small force and the RAF who supported them had inflicted on the enemy were of inestimable value at this critical stage of the battle . ’ |
| 25 | A spokesman for the health authority said only eight mothers were believed to be at risk of infection and not all of them had asked for an AIDS test . |
| 26 | Unsurprisingly , none of them had heard of Giles Williams , which was clearly a false name , and Kelly 's description of his telephone manner — a slurred , gin-sodden voice with a wheedling insincere tone to it — covered half of what used to be known as Fleet Street . |
| 27 | None of them had heard about the recall . |
| 28 | All of them had served in Lebanon and Chad , and each of them had a minimum of three years ' service , which meant that when they had done their basic training the violence they were employing with us had been the norm . |
| 29 | On the other hand the number of university graduates greatly increased : many of them had served in the forces , usually as officers , and several had been temporary civil servants . |
| 30 | By November , however , a small number of them had returned to work . |