Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 2 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 3 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 4 | ‘ When we asked how they knew we were coming , they would solemnly say that they had seen the Little People lighting candles in all the windows . |
| 5 | Professor Andrew Lyne and two colleagues , Matthew Bailes and Setnam Shemar , astronomers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom , announced in the British science journal Nature of July 24 that they had made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system . |
| 6 | as if to confirm that they had rejected the old emphasis on local political organizations , the new studies gave themselves a new title . |
| 7 | The Spanish police also maintained that they had kept the suspected terrorists ' movements under close surveillance and maintained a constant flow of information on them to British officials in Gibraltar . |
| 8 | The three independent directors on the Saga board said last night that they had noted the possible offer , adding that discussions ‘ are at an early stage ’ and a further announcement would be made ‘ as soon as practicable ’ . |
| 9 | But if they did n't speak with tongues how did Simon know that they had received the Holy Spirit ? |
| 10 | Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands announced in May that they had joined the 1987 Missile Technology Control Regime ( MTCR ) which committed industrialized countries to restricting missile proliferation in the developing world . |
| 11 | The four main opposition parties announced on June 30 that they had formed the National Democratic Front to co-ordinate their election campaign . |
| 12 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 13 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 14 | His very short statements , and constant insistence that they had done the right thing , made it difficult , if not impossible , to reflect the point of the view of ‘ the other side ’ — the side of the authorities , who then complained that the parents had too much publicity and had the full support of the press and media . |
| 15 | A total of 40.7% of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7% went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9% went on a word-of-mouth recommendation . |
| 16 | The group later claimed that they had released the two men . |
| 17 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 18 | Early this year they announced that they had found the 17 keV neutrino again , with a far greater degree of sensitivity than any previous experiment . |
| 19 | The Fontanellatesi , like all Italians , felt happy ; happy that they had stood up to the Fascists , and happy that they had helped the escaped prisoners . |
| 20 | Certainly , the Serbian forces have publicly admitted that they had targeted the regional museum in Sarajevo : early last month the BBC 's war reporter Kate Adie quoted the Serbian explanation of why they had shelled the hotel which houses all the foreign correspondents : apparently they were aiming at the roof of the museum ( which contains the Bosnian anthropological material ) and missed . |
| 21 | Colin insists that they had expected the ensuing fuss . |
| 22 | On Oct. 29 an Israeli government commission of inquiry cleared the three crew members , saying that they had taken the right decision . |
| 23 | What sort of man … this letter business did n't ring true at all … that they had taken the two girls and released one could simply mean a problem of identification , although even that was unlikely , but to send a first message before the parents had time to become frantic , possibly before they even knew … the whole thing could be a hoax , and yet the girl 's condition … a hoax gone wrong ! |
| 24 | Once they had reached the spiky barrier Trentham changed direction and began to crawl along the German side of the fence searching for a breach in the wire between them and safety . |
| 25 | When 4 years later the US fleet was ordered to stop making sets on dolphins once they had exceeded the annual kill quota , catch rates of tuna were not in fact noticeably affected . |
| 26 | They were told by Jesus not to speculate about the time when God would bring in the kingdom in all its fullness , but , once they had received the Holy Spirit , they were to witness to Jesus in Jerusalem , Judaea , Samaria , and throughout the world ( Acts 1:8 ) . |
| 27 | Joseph followed Suit with Dong , and when the commotion died own and they had bidden the Annamese boys goodnight , he and Paul stripped off their shirts and walked over to the bamboo skinning platform where Chuck was already back at work on his buffalo hide . |
| 28 | Erm they had n't got a survey going , they 'd got coming round to have a look at it , and they 'd got the environmental health from London to have a survey of it , and er everything . |
| 29 | You know mother 'd used to come back so thrilled with all these slides they 'd had and they 'd had the local doctor as well . |
| 30 | It had decreed that many years ago , and if they had taken the appropriate rent rises in steps and phased them in , this sudden large rise , which is causing hardship , would not have happened . |