Example sentences of "[verb] they [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 2 | Bargain-hunters flocked to the stores , believing they were getting a good deal only to find they had paid the normal price or , in some cases , more . |
| 3 | NASA scientists had thought they 'd solved the technical problems which have dogged the Space Agency . |
| 4 | Just over 10 per cent of the bottom two bands gave an answer which indicated they had used the wrong scale . |
| 5 | Police had hoped they 'd seen the last of the joyriding and the crowds who gather to see the stolen cars in action . |
| 6 | But at half-past seven the next morning they knew they had made the right decision . |
| 7 | ‘ I was caught at Dunkirk when they thought they 'd won the bloody war . |
| 8 | Peter said it was a good game when they came home and found that Woking had won five nil they thought they 'd chosen the wrong one . |
| 9 | They all thought they 'd got the dreaded C , poor things . |
| 10 | The couple thought they had done the right thing by paying £140 for a house-buyer 's survey , which had given the house a clean bill of health with only some minor exceptions . |
| 11 | Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre . |
| 12 | Some said they had seen the quizzical , grey-whiskered faces staring up at them as they crouched on the two boards above the refuse pit , peering at the nervous men from beside the walls of the cubicles and showing no apprehension . |
| 13 | But a few minutes later they said they had detained the wrong woman and the real suspect was still at large . |
| 14 | All those who said they had had the first operation had an appropriate scar and ab absent gall bladder on ultrasonography . |
| 15 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |