Example sentences of "and they had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 2 | That was all they were , and they had to go through life like that . |
| 3 | And they had to go in a do some fighting . |
| 4 | He had abruptly spurred ahead of her then without replying , and they had ridden without speaking further for a long while . |
| 5 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 6 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 7 | But there was plenty of time , and they had to wait at the other end of the tunnel . |
| 8 | Manchester United at home to Bolton were held to a goal-less first half first forty five minutes , and they had to wait until the seventy seventh minute before taking the lead through Hughes , and United go through with a one nil win . |
| 9 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |
| 10 | And they had asked for compensation : so not war-widows ' pensions , in any case readily forthcoming in the Libyan welfare system , but perhaps bloodwealth , that compensation exchanged between groups to ensure peace between them . |
| 11 | It had started when they discovered she was meeting Rob , and they had asked for her promise that she would never see him again . |
| 12 | Boats were for hire by the hour and they had rowed on the lake . |
| 13 | They had wanted no part of the terror and the bloodshed , and they had hidden in the mountains and the caves and the remote Northern Isles . |
| 14 | Then , police claim , someone took a shot at them , and they had to withdraw for their own safety . |
| 15 | They could n't be very quick because there was no electric light upstairs and they had to manage with the candle Carrie was holding . |
| 16 | Magrath was a police psychologist , and they had met in Rome at an international conference on violent crime . |
| 17 | Servants hurried around , to the shrieked orders of officials , and they had to tend to their own horses in the now emptying stables . |
| 18 | Fears of communism had deep roots in the past ( p.6 ) and they had increased as the Cold War developed after 1945 . |
| 19 | It had belonged to a man called Flowers , and they had gone to Manchester just because he had offered them the flat . |
| 20 | The two told how Pringle had called for Jason at his home in Geneva Road , Darlington , on Sunday afternoon and they had gone for a ride around in a van . |
| 21 | The money he gave them they had meant to use for the Greek trip but it was more than they expected and they had gone on a shopping , then a drinking , spree with it . |
| 22 | Since coming back to London on his £10 a week contract he had teamed up again with Stanley Baker and they had gone on the rampage . |
| 23 | The young policeman from Bromley reported that he had seen a young couple whose description matched the wanted pair and they had gone towards the pier . |
| 24 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 25 | And many women actually did take to their beds when they were menstruating and erm sort of retired from active life and this was n't possible then because so many women had been called up you know and they had had to be in the army or they had to work in factories and it was n't possible for them to be absent . |
| 26 | And they had blundered into them , half-blinded by the wind-driven snow . |
| 27 | It had been gentle , a sweet , surprised discovering , and they had looked at each other shyly afterwards , unable to speak . |
| 28 | She and her husband , Jan , were on the next farm to Bruce , and they had looked on Bruce as a son . |
| 29 | And they had fought for their country in 1939 when the Irish Republic remained neutral which was , after all , just what one could expect of rebels who had taken advantage of Britain 's involvement in the First World War to stage the 1916 Easter Rising . |
| 30 | I met most of my party there because I had flown from Stavanger and they had arrived via Oslo , but we all boarded the plane bound for Longyearbyen with great anticipation . |