Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archaeology shows that the material was appreciated by the local population of this region long before they had begun to practise farming . |
| 2 | The patients were asked whether they still had the pain and if so whether they had learnt to live with it . |
| 3 | For others , however , it will be plain that they made their asylum claim to extend their stay here only when they had failed to prolong it by other means . |
| 4 | The company says the attempt at a buyout failed because the managers realised that it would take longer than they had planned to develop a new generation of the 50 Series minicomputer line . |
| 5 | The raid , on a property in Knotto Bottom Way , failed but not before they had tried to force a sliding window at the front of the home . |
| 6 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 7 | For most of the century they earned from 10 to 12s a week ( 50-60p ) , and could , it was often argued , have earned more if they had chosen to work more hours . |
| 8 | Then I thought … well , as it happens , I did know that the old lady — MM Hamilton — had died earlier this year , and of course that could have meant that Dad 's job had packed up and they 'd had to move . |
| 9 | She made a deliberate effort to relax : they would both have blown up if they had had to sit like that all evening , she thought . |
| 10 | It turned out that they had come to consult me . |
| 11 | That evening the periti were thanked for their help , and urged to go on talking to bishops now that they had learned to do so . |
| 12 | Many clearly accepted the propaganda version of events and , even if they had begun to have their doubts about Hitler , regarded the plot as a sacrilegious and treasonable act against the head of State , and an attempted sabotage of the war effort . |
| 13 | Even if they had wanted to black the work in support of a NATO ally , they say they had no grounds once Britain began delivering the engines after the Falklands war . |
| 14 | They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform |
| 15 | And he did not say that , even if they 'd wished to finish the play with his understudy , they could n't , because Alex Household had run out of the theatre immediately after the shooting . |
| 16 | She 'd seen the same thing happen to too many others in the music business , not because they 'd tried and failed to be carbon copies of Aurora Blake , but simply because they 'd tried to force a talent they simply did n't possess . |
| 17 | The Six therefore simply accepted to resume collaboration even though they had failed to reach a resolution acceptable to all governments : in essence , they agreed to disagree . |
| 18 | He wondered yet again where they had managed to meet , how Domenica had contrived to take a new lover without the whole laboratory and the whole village knowing . |
| 19 | Those with turpentine , for instance , flew southwards if they had been trained in a loft with the smell of that compound blowing in from the north , and northwards if they had learned to smell it from the south . |
| 20 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 21 | She 'd begun to guess he was probably dead too and they 'd forgotten to tell her , just like nobody told her straight when Baby died . |