Example sentences of "they had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the middle of the decade , they had formulated their auteur theory , which gave a new gloss to film studies . |
| 2 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 3 | It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition . |
| 4 | About a third of those interviewed said they had run away because of ‘ problems at home ’ . |
| 5 | The bruises on the neck and face and legs of the widow and her children were still livid on the brown skin as they recounted how they had run a gauntlet of fists and kicks and curses of their neighbours . |
| 6 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 7 | They had run circles round me . |
| 8 | The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office . |
| 9 | But above all , the Conservatives were impaled on the difficulties of saying why , since they had run the country for 13 years , they had not taken certain actions sooner . |
| 10 | Similarly a plate of biscuits may not contain enough for ‘ one each ’ and children would not know until each had taken one or they had run out . |
| 11 | When Gabriel and she had been a couple they had run into her one day when there had been a freak storm . |
| 12 | The point was to fire fast to persuade the French that they had run into a strong picquet line . |
| 13 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 14 | They had run out of water the day before . |
| 15 | They had run for shelter in a tiny cave on the side of the valley a second after the storm had begun . |
| 16 | They had run into a few mobs of scuffling Haitians , but fortunately , they were mostly without firearms and so the Doctor and Howard had been able to drive through them , sending the mobs scurrying out of their way . |
| 17 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 18 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 19 | This time Reception said they had run out of vases and , whatever he 'd done , did n't she think it was time she forgave him ? |
| 20 | The poor must tighten their belts and if they had run out of notches , it was just too bad . |
| 21 | They had run the city respectively from 1976 to 1986 and from 1986 to December 1991 , and both were protected by parliamentary immunity , having been returned to parliament at the general election . |
| 22 | They had run for the woods in what they stood up in . |
| 23 | The villages were moved because of the depletion of firewood stocks ( the Indians believed the English had arrived because they had run out of firewood at home ) . |
| 24 | Then they had to brace themselves to pass the few people standing along the church wall . |
| 25 | They had stared at each other without speaking for a moment , and then she said , ‘ She deserves a five-shilling Christmas Box . ’ |
| 26 | So he had lowered himself to sit beside her and together they had stared wordlessly towards the horizon . |
| 27 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 28 | The Alsatians , their thick pelts soaked and steaming , had sniffed with some certainty around a little icon of the Virgin which stood by the roadside , sheltered from the rain by a stone arch , but after that they had rambled unhappily this way and that and returned whining to their handlers , who were knee-deep in mud , soaked to the skin and cursing roundly . |
| 29 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 30 | But when ‘ Happy Hour ’ cracked the Top Five , they had to hold a meeting to see if this was what they really wanted to do — they did , temporarily . |