Example sentences of "they had [adv] [vb pp] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had n't moved with the times . |
| 2 | At five o'clock three Corporation attendants with a policeman would turn everyone off the market ; and they had to take the cattle they had n't sold with them . |
| 3 | No wonder their coach Tony Rodgers could scarcely restrain a grin at the end as a cluster of Northampton committee men tried to work out why they had also travelled with little sense of direction , wit , wisdom or work rate . |
| 4 | She could hardly follow up the exchange they had just had with a question about his relationship with Puddephat . |
| 5 | IBM and Microsoft developed OS/2 together , as they had previously done with DOS , but sales did not go well — the latest claim from IBM is one million copies sold . |
| 6 | By early the following year some Boards were , as Jones had foreseen , going into deficit , and this inevitably compromised the industry 's ability to meet the higher self-financing targets they had previously agreed with the Ministry . |
| 7 | Furthermore , they had not consulted with her . |
| 8 | But they had not reckoned with Lord Robertson . |
| 9 | They had not reckoned with the mentality of CPP officials , used to exercising unchallenged authority in a one-party state . |
| 10 | The reason that the protest was n't accepted by the courts in this country was that they had not protested with equivalent vigour at an earlier stage when the looted antiquities first appeared on the market . |
| 11 | Its name was changed , to make things clear to the outside world , from Banbury County School to Banbury Grammar School : in Surrey they had not bothered with such fine adjustments , although Wallington County School was unambiguously a grammar school . |
| 12 | The fact that Nonconformists were so prominent in the new financial institutions became a source of deep concern , both for the landed classes , who had by now largely severed any ties they had once had with Dissent , and also for the old Tory financial interests in the City , who saw their former economic ascendancy being eclipsed . |
| 13 | Occasionally they gave a perfunctory look up and down the carriage , but they had obviously wilted with the tedium of the journey and the foul air . |
| 14 | It was a turning point in their lives and the first contact they had ever had with such youngsters . |
| 15 | They had all helped with scenery and costumes . |
| 16 | And then they had all hooted with laughter and teased him mercilessly when they 'd arrived , because she had n't been seen all evening and they knew he was deeply disappointed . |
| 17 | Some of them had previously experimented with fixed-term contracts but had found they imposed too much rigidity . |