Example sentences of "them had be " in BNC.

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1 This sparked immediate criticism that the MMC regulations requiring Bass to free pubs from the tie or sell them had been by-passed .
2 It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard .
3 Prior to 1917 there had been two annual fairs ( iarmarki ) in the area , but only one of them had been revived in 1921 , with a quarter of its previous turnover .
4 Most of them had been due to efforts on the spot by units of the Red Army .
5 I was green at my job and some of them had been around twenty-five to thirty years doing this sort of work .
6 I spoke to Sikh and Hindu children in Southall and none of them had been withdrawn from religious education lessons .
7 By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money .
8 His business with them had been satisfactorily completed ; he had taken his money from the American lady and disappeared .
9 Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn .
10 The only thing that linked them was the embarrassing albatross of a marriage in whose death both of them had been guilty .
11 All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’
12 After the statement was read , Mr Justice Davies — also the trial judge in the pamphlet action — said it would have been unfair to Count Tolstoy and Mr Watts if the jury in the action against them had been told that ‘ responsible publishers ’ had already paid money into court and agreed to apologise and withdraw a book containing similar charges as those made in the pamphlet .
13 As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself .
14 The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor .
15 THE KITCHEN was a large stone-floored room whose low ceiling seemed to trap the heat of the stove and hold cooking smells long after the meal that created them had been forgotten .
16 When the historian Asa Briggs examined their backgrounds he found that fifty-six of them had been university educated , forty at Oxford or Cambridge .
17 She had had a few in her short life and none of them had been pleasant .
18 So far neither of them had been defeated .
19 Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time .
20 I could not tell if any of them had been involved but pleaded with them : ‘ If you know anything , please tell .
21 If 13 of them had been nasty , Tit for Tat would n't have won .
22 During most of Charman 's time with the group , the bond between them had been very strong .
23 Both of them had been influenced by Dutch stock : the Hervé of central Liège originated from Dutch Friesians crossed to local red-pied cattle in the mid-nineteenth century , while the Polders of western Antwerp and northern Flanders was in effect the Dutch Black Pied in Belgium .
24 One of them had been watching him recently .
25 Each school received figures showing how the total sum available to them had been allocated under different headings .
26 Indeed , not only were his 29 League goals ( out of a total of 70 ) the major contribution towards Palace 's promotion to Division Two in 1920–21 , ( our first season in the Football League ) , but many of them had been scored with his head .
27 However , taken overall the exercise had focussed attention on the problems associated with the filing systems of the two departments , and many of them had been alleviated by the time the study was completed , albeit using manual methods rather than technical solutions .
28 All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool .
29 There were some plans in existence and he studied old maps by R. Casson and J. Berry , which had appeared last in 1757 before the copper plates for them had been taken over by Harrop .
30 The last man reached the fresh air base at 12.05 a.m. on Sunday , 10th September , and soon afterwards , all of them had been brought to the surface .
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