Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] that they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 2 | She only knew that they had made love at all by the sticky wetness in between her thighs and on the bedsheet . |
| 3 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 4 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 5 | Migrants who said they did not want to do another course or were unsure , generally said that they wanted to finish the current course before considering anything else . |
| 6 | ABARRISTER for two Arab princesses yesterday agreed that they had beaten their maid with a horse whip . |
| 7 | Trading standards officers in Strathclyde and Lothian regions yesterday reported that they had received dozens of queries over the offer . |
| 8 | They still believed that they had put a 2Mb memory upgrade into one of these machines to give it a 4Mb of RAM . |
| 9 | Norwich City yesterday confirmed that they have received an enquiry from the FA of Ireland about the availability of the club 's central defender Andy Linighan . |
| 10 | I had told Elizabeth that when my friends left Greece I always felt that they had gone into an underworld ; I wanted them back , but had no wish to go with them . |
| 11 | They further said that they had received no formal complaint from Ahmed Ashraf . |
| 12 | ‘ The commission took into consideration their record over the past five years , ’ said Graham Kelly , the FA 's chief executive , ‘ but they also noted that they had taken steps to improve it over the last 18 months . ’ |
| 13 | The RJO also confirmed that they had received a video tape from Israel of an interview carried out recently with Shaikh Abdel-Karim Obeid . |
| 14 | They replied that Edmund left no claim to his brothers and had wanted Cnut to support and protect his sons until they were old enough to rule , and they also swore that they wished to elect Cnut king , humbly obey him , and pay tribute to his army . |
| 15 | It later emerged that they had loaded crude here for third parties to whom they had been chartered-out . |
| 16 | Five companies also said that they had enhanced their internal audit . |
| 17 | Yet they also said that they had managed to increase output without increasing the workforce and had been able to grow more effectively . |
| 18 | A quarter also said that they had had shoes spoiled . |
| 19 | Some students in both departments also said that they preferred to ask postgraduate demonstrators , rather than staff , for help . |
| 20 | Spain and Italy and later Belgium also said that they intended to send an unspecified number of troops . |
| 21 | Enkidu now dreamt that they had offended the gods so deeply that one of them must die , and he promptly declined into a fatal illness . |
| 22 | She now suspected that they had known long before and were breaking it to her gradually . |
| 23 | He even intimated that they had tried to corrupt him by sending female temptresses to seduce him in his Cambridge rooms . |
| 24 | In doing so it also extended and sharpened the tools by which it assured standards across the growing territory of higher education , but at the same time it struggled with the problem of those institutions which increasingly felt that they had served a long enough apprenticeship . |
| 25 | They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money . |
| 26 | They wished to kill and devour the father and then imagined that they had done so and felt guilty — is this what happened ? |
| 27 | Paul Ingouf then said that they wished to take us to the spot where the aircraft had crashed . |
| 28 | And I have to say that it was after we had done a course for them on really bad press releases , because we , they had done some pretty awful press releases in the past , and we were delighted when that one came out because it actually showed that they 'd picked up the message . |
| 29 | The Chinese never felt that they had to go anywhere much beyond their own frontiers to acquire knowledge or to find riches ; to the extent that they did go abroad , it was to the west , by land or by hugging the coast . |