Example sentences of "they had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 2 | The bearer turned left along a line of houses they had just come out of . |
| 3 | They had just set out on holiday in their Mazda car . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 5 | They had both gone home to their parents ' . |
| 6 | They had both settled down to non-smoking . |
| 7 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 8 | Then , the day before it was due to begin , they had already run out of conference handbooks . |
| 9 | It does sound as through some of the rhythmic inflexions have lost their spontaneity and solidified into mannerisms ( they had already done so by the time of the 1978 Vienna Festival account once available on EMI ) . |
| 10 | If Britain had suggested something like this several years earlier , it might have found some support within the Six , but by 1957 they had already passed far beyond that point . |
| 11 | He was pleased to see how well they had all mixed , even though they had admittedly come together with a common purpose . |
| 12 | Out on a train in Cambodia they had even talked lightly of setting up Oz again in London , even as Neville filed stories back to Richard Walsh and Oz in Sydney . |
| 13 | Bruce Davidson had accompanied McLeish from his last posting to C1 , that division of New Scotland Yard concerned exclusively with murder , and they had now worked together for four years in the CID . |
| 14 | In Lucien 's family , they had only come together at the times appointed by the Church : meals , various holidays , family councils and those mysterious , Church-nominated occasions when children were conceived . |
| 15 | They had then rolled off towards Pushkin with Myeloski eating the vobla out of an old copy of Izvestia which was unrolled on his lap . |
| 16 | The competition with its attendant publicity and the Lords debate on 15th May , 1857 seems to have persuaded the Lords of the Treasury of the need for Hall 's Bill , which they had originally received early in December 1856 . |
| 17 | Her soft blue eyes hardened as they had never done before in her life and she met his gaze head-on . |
| 18 | So , in the winter evenings , they would draw the curtains and watch The Sound of Music or Bridge over the River Kwai and feel as though they had never moved out of Twickenham . |
| 19 | By the time Maggie had to go back to London they had never felt closer in warmth , even happiness . |
| 20 | Suddenly , as they arrowed in for the kill , the man-thing did something they had never experienced before in any hunted victim . |
| 21 | Mother Francis hoped that the Community in Dublin would understand the need to make Eve feel important and part of the place as they had always done here in Knockglen . |
| 22 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 23 | That night the BBC ran the obituary twice — the first time they had ever done so for anyone , and the first television obituary to consist of a filmed interview with the deceased . |
| 24 | Thus , for example , when asked whether they had ever thought seriously about early retirement before the prospect of redundancy was raised , less than one-quarter had done so . |
| 25 | In fact , those who retired prematurely were less likely than those who waited until pension age to have said that they had ever thought seriously about early retirement ( 24 per cent compared with 44 per cent in the age-group 60 and over ) . |
| 26 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 27 | They had all gone away to be professionally stripped . |
| 28 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 29 | Even though they had all agreed beforehand to the principle of a supranational institution , the six states of ‘ little ’ Europe — France , West Germany , Italy , Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg — faced nine months of hard bargaining after they formally began negotiations in June 1950 . |
| 30 | They had all squeezed in behind the driver for the run to Canterbury , where there was a Jaguar agent . |