Example sentences of "they had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had run for shelter in a tiny cave on the side of the valley a second after the storm had begun . |
| 2 | They had run for the woods in what they stood up in . |
| 3 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 4 | When Gabriel and she had been a couple they had run into her one day when there had been a freak storm . |
| 5 | The point was to fire fast to persuade the French that they had run into a strong picquet line . |
| 6 | They had run into a few mobs of scuffling Haitians , but fortunately , they were mostly without firearms and so the Doctor and Howard had been able to drive through them , sending the mobs scurrying out of their way . |
| 7 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 8 | They had stared at each other without speaking for a moment , and then she said , ‘ She deserves a five-shilling Christmas Box . ’ |
| 9 | In origin these were scraps of waste wood for fuel , and by the mid seventeenth century they had grown into a form of wage supplementation . |
| 10 | ‘ They had broken through the spell-wall . |
| 11 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 12 | Some were eating , and Ruth guessed that they had broken into the food supplies they had brought for the voyage . |
| 13 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 14 | On July 13 another five Cubans were turned away after they had broken into the residence of the Czechoslovak chargé d'affaires and temporarily taken him hostage . |
| 15 | Mary Estlin 's Bristol and Clifton Ladies ' Anti-Slavery Society also warmed to the changed tone of Broad Street although they had broken from them barely a year earlier . |
| 16 | The depths they had dived to , that were recorded on the sheets before her , were exceptional . |
| 17 | The amount of land made available for them to purchase should be approximately equivalent to the allotments they had tilled for their own subsistence under serfdom . |
| 18 | The amount of land made available to them was , on average , less than that which they had tilled for their own subsistence under serfdom . |
| 19 | They had turned as if by common consent to go back into the cottage when the lights of a car , driven fast , came over the southern rise of the road . |
| 20 | She was brutally assaulted by her brother 's friends , as they had turned into a frenzied mob . |
| 21 | The van jerked forward but he managed to keep the engine from stalling and within seconds they had turned into a sharp bend and the grotesque crater was no longer visible in the rear view mirror . |
| 22 | In the same way , therefore , as they had turned to primitives for finding the opposite of capitalist relations of production , they turned to them for a form of family which was the opposite of the capitalist family . |
| 23 | They had turned to longer films to attract better audiences and the device of the fiction film not only served to head off the challenge of reformers but also guaranteed an exclusive hold on mass audiences . |
| 24 | The Kislevites were driven to wild fury by what they had witnessed in Praag , and the Chaos army began to crumble before their implacable anger . |
| 25 | Within five minutes , they had received over one hundred enquiries . |
| 26 | The inquiry reported that the evidence which they had received to date did not prove conclusively that such activities had taken place , but ‘ in some instances circumstantial evidence in support of the complaint has been very strong ’ ( NCCL , 1984 ) . |
| 27 | His successor , Majorian , is unlikely to have gained the support of the Burgundians in 458 , when he drove them out of the lands which they had received with the approval of the Gallo-Roman senators . |
| 28 | Seventy-five per cent said they had received at least 3 days notice of the visit and 94% were happy with the amount of notice . |
| 29 | They were also rooted in the past and in the nature of things — in the past , through the gifts of land , relics , and rights which they had received at various times ; in the nature of things through the physical separation of the British Isles from the rest of the world as an alter orbis . |
| 30 | Mr. S. Walker left a note for the Board of Guardians expressing thanks for their kind and courteous hearing when his group had been interviewed on the subject of the unemployed marchers , and for the treatment they had received at the institution . |