Example sentences of "had [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time , since the 1916 split , that all the major political leaders within the Liberal Party — David Lloyd George , Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir John Simon — had placed their names upon a major economic report . |
| 2 | At most only four Zuwaya employed more than ten people on a regular basis , and most wealthy Suwaya entrepreneurs , say seventy men altogether , had placed their money in partnerships rather than in wage-paying firms ; employees were generally foreigners excluded from the right to take over factories and workshops . |
| 3 | They had perhaps three hundred yards to cover to the edge of the encampment ; and as they neared this it dawned on Ramsay that , of all things , the enemy had placed their horse-lines here at this western rim of their cantonment . |
| 4 | Cromwell 's men were searching a Cavalier household ; the man had hidden in a window-seat and on top of it his wife had placed their sleeping child . |
| 5 | The Halifax Building Society , where the bombers had placed their device , is now a heap of rubble . |
| 6 | The Kurdistan Democratic Party ( KDP ) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) announced on Sept. 16 that they had placed their guerrilla forces under a single command . |
| 7 | Nor had they , because the old devils had filled their shoes with earth from Balnagowan in Easter Ross . |
| 8 | He waited until the waiter had filled their glasses before suggesting the toast . |
| 9 | ‘ Why should n't I approve ? ’ he enquired , when they had filled their plates and found a table . |
| 10 | In fact , several of the warnings were from colleagues at the centre who had withdrawn their association from the centre early last year . |
| 11 | A visionary at Much Wenlock , on the testimony of Boniface , proclaimed in Ceolred 's lifetime that the angels surrounding him had withdrawn their protective shield and abandoned him to demons because of the multitude of crimes he had committed . |
| 12 | As late as Sept. 3 Palmer insisted that he would lead the party into the election but , at a caucus of Labour MPs on the following day , he resigned after it became clear that many of those present — including a sizable portion of the Cabinet — had withdrawn their support . |
| 13 | As the debate progressed it became clear not merely that the country 's four opposition parties were prepared to co-operate to defeat the proposal , but that several senior figures within the ruling party — including Shin Kanemaru , leader of the largest LDP faction — had withdrawn their support from the bill . |
| 14 | However , at the request of Prime Minister Petre Roman on March 21 they had withdrawn their resignations , as had Resources and Industry Minister Mihai Zisu ( whose offer to resign had officially been on health grounds ) . |
| 15 | On Aug. 12 it was reported that the air and naval high commands had withdrawn their support for the President , dissociating themselves from the incidents of Aug. 10 . |
| 16 | On Oct. 3 a statement issued in Abu Dhabi , one of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , by the majority shareholders of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , which had been closed down on July 5 , 1991 , amid allegations of massive corruption and fraud [ see p. 38355 ] , announced that they had withdrawn their support for an attempted rescue of the bank . |
| 17 | Opposition parties had withdrawn their candidates in October after the breakdown of tripartite talks and the lack of any prospect of a national conference [ see p. 38518 ] . |
| 18 | Initially Narong continued to receive the support of the five coalition members , but by April 3 reports from Bangkok claimed that the military had withdrawn their support . |
| 19 | But if that was n't a second smokescreen settling on Oxendown House as fast as possible after Charlie 's Indians had withdrawn their own , then I do n't know smoke signals when I smell them . |
| 20 | The theatre and the bookshop had sustained their influence on Edinburgh students . |
| 21 | Before , it had justified their arbitrary rule . |
| 22 | ‘ So they never lived long enough to know I had justified their faith in me . ’ |
| 23 | Those who had come by carriage had dismissed their drivers with instructions not to return until early evening and now they were stranded , having to decide whether to wait or walk . |
| 24 | By the following day up to 50,000 Moldavians , some armed , were blockading the Gagauz districts , where the Gagauzes in turn had formed their own defence force . |
| 25 | The children here were all considered old enough by their parents to understand a sympathetic explanation of the grounds on which the Reporter had referred their case to the Children 's Panel . |
| 26 | Party managers arrived at that conclusion because that is the way they had treated their own party for the past eight years . |
| 27 | Under the old regime , the Central Authority had treated their financial policy as a quite separate exercise having no relationship to their investment policy . |
| 28 | Bothwell 's men had to carry their leader back to Hermitage , where he was greeted by the mortifying news that the prisoners had overpowered their guards and taken charge of the castle . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , while Khrushchev , Brezhnev and their successors as general secretary of the Communist Party remained the most prominent figures in the Soviet political process , clearly they did not dominate the Politburo as Stalin did — they had to carry their colleagues with them . |
| 30 | Breeze and Gay had printed their handbills with great care , and had painted their board most beautifully — with the result that on the following Sunday afternoon the entire population of Overclyst and Clyst St George filed past Sunset Cottage in slow procession , gazing open-mouthed at the birthplace of such a surprising scheme . |