Example sentences of "had [verb] they at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You had to wear them at certain times . |
| 2 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 3 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 4 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 5 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 6 | Chauffeurs had met them at their Inn on the Park hotel , at seven o'clock sharp ; and at five minutes to eight they had taken their seats around the long elliptical table at European headquarters to ensure the meeting began on time , at precisely eight o'clock . |
| 7 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 8 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 9 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 10 | She recalled the Jewish woman who had lectured them at Holmsly Manor . |
| 11 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
| 12 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 13 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 14 | To do nothing might be worse — Allan had greeted them at the house with the news ( fresh from the great oven of rumour , the widow Duff 's at Ballinluig ) that a file of English soldiers had ridden out from Perth . |
| 15 | When your family members went mad these days you had to keep them at home , and whatever the sound policies , on the part of the government , which lay behind this decision , it was undoubtedly inconvenient for those upon whom would fall the burden of caring for the deranged . |
| 16 | It was our local radio station , it said you had to represent them at functions and charity events , it sounded dead good . |
| 17 | The squall that had flung Trent against the bank had hit them at over one hundred and fifty miles an hour . |
| 18 | The German forces in the area — Prince Rupprecht 's Fourth Army — were commanded by General Sixt von Armin , who had led them at Messines . |
| 19 | More than that , the caring crème de la crème were also confronted by the result of what had put them at the forefront of that generation in the first place : they were very good at what they did ( teaching , lecturing , theorizing , media of all kinds , creativity of all stripes ) , and they were becoming , perish the thought , Successful . |
| 20 | Some dictators had been keen to forge triple alliances including foreign firms ; other had kept them at arms ' length . |
| 21 | Ezpeleta and the local administration followed events and there is no reason to suppose that judges and municipal officials would have abandoned their ambiguous collaborationism had not St. Cyr , the French commander , later forced on them an oath of loyalty to Joseph — repugnant to the very legalism which , combined with inertia and pay , had kept them at their posts . |
| 22 | The authorities claimed that the bombs were the work of a " terrorist " student group , but the National Union of Students claimed that police paramilitaries had planted them at Santo Domingo University . |