Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either their flight had been delayed , or they had taken one look at this sober crew and retired aghast . |
| 2 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 3 | In answer to this the respondents who were in favour of this clause and its enforcement said that they now deemed that the sale agreements were null and void and they began to sell another brand of petrol at both garages . |
| 4 | New legislation freed the building societies from the constraints of selling only two products , mortgages and savings accounts , and they began to offer current accounts . |
| 5 | Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other . |
| 6 | They were able to surprise Israel Hands and the other men , and they managed to persuade one man , Abraham Gray , to join us again . ’ |
| 7 | The girls ' parents had held her in high regard and they had become firm friends . |
| 8 | I suggested to Wilson that there had to be a short cooling-off period , after which Max Aitken would be a suitable person to go to Rhodesia as an unofficial ambassador , since in the war he had flown with Smith in the RAF and they had become good friends . |
| 9 | and they had joined British Telecom at twenty , |
| 10 | Editors still had to submit their material for inspection ( after it had been printed , but before it was distributed ) ; they could be penalized both by indictment in the courts and by direct action on the part of the Minister of Internal Affairs ; and they had to lodge monetary bonds with the authorities to facilitate the payment of fines if the government moved against them . |
| 11 | He had worked with Elizabeth in the 1951 picture A Place in the Sun and they had remained close friends . |
| 12 | The point was that their claims had gone to different adjudication officers and they had made different decisions . |
| 13 | And they had expressed such interest in the Feargach Grian she was saying ; as people of culture and learning , naturally they would be interested in it , she quite understood this . |
| 14 | Yes , erm well I I 've not done a wedding in a church actually yet , but then I 've only done three weddings , and , but the most interesting one was in a Brock in Glenelg and erm , that was quite exciting because the couple really thought about the service and they had selected that sight because it meant something to them , and involved the whole community and thereabout , and it was great ! |
| 15 | Well to be quite honest I think the reason she wanted it in Norwich was cos Glasgow 're over-loaded as it was I think and they had to learn new skills and staff support and therefore it might not be a good idea to have them as well |
| 16 | Julian Hayman was the same age as Quinn and they had known each other when Quinn lived in London and worked for the underwriting firm specializing in protection and hostage release . |
| 17 | So as a result of that because it 's been erm changed in the nineteenth century the eighteen forties and eighteen fifties , architectural historians who we who were faced with a real problem with York cos York had something like fifty medieval churches and erm er about thirty of them surviving into into the twentieth century , erm and they had to make some decisions about which ones to preserve and which ones to let go . |
| 18 | At the Albert Hall Rally of the Left Book Club in February 1937 , " Mr Harry Pollitt said there was a new awakening among the middle classes and they had to rope these people in rather than keep them out . " |
| 19 | But it 'd been a good day last year , on the Monday holiday , and they had needed two coaches you see . |
| 20 | Moreover , after Bannockburn , Bruce had actively encouraged the recovery of his war-shattered country by inviting Low Country merchants , wool-brokers , shippers and the like , Flemings in particular , to settle here ; and they had brought much wealth and trade to the town , many having built fine houses as well as their mills , maltings , breweries and warehouses , John Crabb one of these . |
| 21 | There were seven riders in the scratch group which started two minutes behind the 60-strong first group and they had eliminated this handicap by the second of five laps . |
| 22 | And they had got this contract for this er this lawyer who there was a great big er case it had run for long enough . |
| 23 | A huge party from the City Chambers arrived without reservations and they had to shove three tables together , and right after that , in came fourteen Japanese tourists . |
| 24 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 25 | And they had to send one wagon , because they could n't load it , over to pick up some more |
| 26 | Despite their expertise in such field craft , though , there was a limit to the area the Australians could control , and they had to send more men south to protect their supply line from the coast . |
| 27 | The subject attracted no interest , and they failed to secure enough participants for the proposed 2-hour discussion . |
| 28 | That meant he and Sara had hours and hours of hanging around together waiting to be called — and they got to know each other rather well . |
| 29 | The response of the prelates , magnates and commons was notably cautious and they declined to support either alternative . |
| 30 | Well and they 'd made little buns . |