Example sentences of "they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 2 | On the highly publicized issue in AI 's December report of the baby deaths , Amnesty said that although its team was shown alleged mass graves of babies , it was not established how they had died and the team found no reliable evidence that Iraqi forces had caused the deaths of babies by removing them or ordering their removal from incubators . |
| 3 | They had been held in the Military Prison outside Kuwait City , some for over a month , reportedly in deplorable conditions . |
| 4 | They had copied out the names and addresses of everyone who wrote to them and enclosed the list with a message of thanks and good wishes , asking that it be sent on . |
| 5 | They had a vague idea where the place was . |
| 6 | They had none of the socially sterile attitude towards art which we adopt in our own culture . |
| 7 | Crates belonging to millionaires were impressive : beamed and lined with sailcloth , they had solid , elegant walls made of the most expensive grades of tropical wood , with the rings and knots cut and polished like antiques . |
| 8 | Representatives of the few people they had come to know in the course of their wanderings round the world were left to clear up . |
| 9 | ‘ Since that war they had there . ’ |
| 10 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 11 | One remembers the substantial surge in Provisional support in the North on the occasion of the hunger strikes of 1981 , and the impact they had on Northern catholic — nationalist consciousness , one which Cox himself acknowledges . |
| 12 | But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural . |
| 13 | It should be added here that the high clergy hardly recognized that they had actually been exercising a political religious power of a specifically sectarian or monopolistic type . |
| 14 | The Roman catholic hierarchy declared that they had no opposition to this particular change , but one wonders how the vote would have gone if they had . |
| 15 | The Roman catholic hierarchy declared that they had no opposition to this particular change , but one wonders how the vote would have gone if they had . |
| 16 | They had in fact used material gathered by him , and some of his reflections of the sanctity of marriage , in their pastoral letter on marriage in the previous year . |
| 17 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 18 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 19 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 20 | ‘ We talk to them about the style of service and food they are planning and the figure we recommend is often less than they had estimated , ’ he says . |
| 21 | Except for the more delicate crabs , they had a provincial Sunday lunch quality . |
| 22 | Arabella Buckley hissed out the words , but Sven Hjerson thought it very likely they had been carried by the sticky breeze as far as the couple in the prow . |
| 23 | Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel . |
| 24 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 25 | On board the steamer the two of them were talking about what would happen to the title if Lord Woodleigh was to die before they had any children , and Lord Woodleigh said — Sven Hjerson 's ears heard it — although now you get the estate . |
| 26 | They had been so lucky with the weather ; a clear sky , and a soft breeze that kept everyone comfortable . |
| 27 | They had married within a year . |
| 28 | Some protested they had to get home , but their tone was half-hearted . |
| 29 | And besides , they had only just met . |
| 30 | They pooled the information they had gleaned or guessed from their several interrogations , and then began in again . |