Example sentences of "had [vb pp] they [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 2 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 3 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 4 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 5 | Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically . |
| 6 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 7 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 8 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 9 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 10 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 11 | They had bought them in the local sex shop in the hope of saving the money they would normally spend on E. So what were they like ? |
| 12 | The teacher had helped them with the capital letter to begin the sentence and the full stop at the end . |
| 13 | He was still shuffling videos on the shelves as if having suddenly noticed that someone — herself , probably — had replaced them in the wrong order . |
| 14 | In the mid-1950s he had introduced them to the Naval College in Rhode Island . |
| 15 | Mrs Fletcher had brought them round the previous night . |
| 16 | Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road . |
| 17 | Most commentators attributed Smith 's acquittal to inconsistencies in Bowman 's evidence , to an ineffective performance by prosecutor Moria K. Lasch , and to the Dec. 2 ruling by Judge Mary E. Lupo to exclude the testimony of three other women who claimed that Smith had assaulted them during the 1980s . |
| 18 | Customs had waved them through the green section . |
| 19 | And it came to him , with a cold steely horror chilling the bloodstream as if from a lethal injection — he had left them in the stolen mini . |
| 20 | We had taken them with the aforementioned pinch of salt . |
| 21 | She hardly dared to draw the curtains to show herself to the other girls , though she had warned them of the horrid sight in store for them . |
| 22 | In founding Lampsacus they killed off all the natives , but they did it in self-defence ; the daughter of the local king had warned them of the impending attack . |