Example sentences of "[vb past] they [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed they had a mutual acquaintance in ‘ freelance , W. Dennis Suit , president of Overseas Press Services , whom Coleman had met as a ‘ consultant ’ to Pat Robertson 's Christian Broadcasting Network and with whom he had kept in touch , on DIA instructions , because of Suit 's involvement with Oliver North 's ragtag army of conmen , yahoos and armchair mercenaries from |
| 2 | Graeme Stephens , John Moreland , Chris Bellis , Gordon Headley and Mike Travis played fictitious characters named Chris , Joe , Raimo , Norman and Tom , and , said Graeme , who is managing director of LASMO Colombia ; ‘ Our VIP group showed they had a fine sense of humour by entering into the fun , and no libel suits have surfaced yet ! ’ |
| 3 | When they arrived they attended a mass meeting at the Kufra sportsclub to discuss the issue . |
| 4 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 5 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the pilot of Beyond Our Ken was listened to by the BBC mandarins , who decided they liked a great deal about it and decreed it would definitely become a radio series . |
| 7 | Fry 's chocolates were made in the old centre of the city but as the business expanded they needed a large space for a modern factory and also easy ways of distributing the goods . |
| 8 | All agreed they had a rough deal as their work often involved great pain . |
| 9 | Less than a third agreed they came by their fees easily , while half felt they made a positive effort to support and understand clients and 59 per cent that they respond very positively to requests for help and advice ( although these two groups of responses should be seen in the light of that ‘ distress purchase ’ attitude , where lawyers are unlikely to be negative when a client suddenly calls up offering business ) . |
| 10 | This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis . |
| 11 | The National Council for the Aged in the Republic of Ireland reports that in a sample of schoolchildren 62 per cent felt they had a friendly relationship with older people in general . |
| 12 | He said that at the party conference , those who feared they had a weak leader , could take comfort from the belief that there was a strong man waiting in the wings to take over . |
| 13 | Seafarers who landed there thought they saw a great chain of mountains and heard the roaring of lions from them . |
| 14 | BRITISH Rail thought they had a new excuse for late trains yesterday — THIEVES on the line . |
| 15 | This has happened to the many theorists who thought they had a simple explanation for the confusion of thought which led to the surrender of judgment metaphor . |
| 16 | ‘ Funny place to have an office — I thought they had a main HO in Basle , thirty minutes down the autobahn from Freiburg . ’ |
| 17 | He coughed , then added almost grudgingly , ‘ I thought they gave a feminine touch to the table . ’ |
| 18 | As the driver spoke they crested a low ridge . |
| 19 | The party 's local Government spokesman and Cheltenham MP , Nigel Jones , said they represented a deliberate attempt to eliminate the gipsy way of life . |
| 20 | Last night the grieving couple were still baffled by the tragedy that struck down six-year-old Elizabeth a week after doctors said they expected a full recovery from a brain tumour . |
| 21 | Well the County made certificates for the Polytechnic phase two student hostels off John Garne Way , er that actually for phase one was about the last time they got an award at all , and er the panel were very pleased with those , they said they had a nice community feel , and yet the occupants had some privacy , they thought they , and they were pleased to see how well phase one had weathered as well . |
| 22 | My master said they had a splendid library , as well they might , but the only work I saw the nuns do was clever and intricate embroidery of curtains , cloths and napkins . |
| 23 | One of the things we did n't mention , deliberately , which I , I know Richard said they had a long debate about was child labour . |
| 24 | He said they had a big swimming pool with the house . |
| 25 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 26 | More than 85 per cent of 614 companies and organisations surveyed said they had a formal policy for counselling and retraining to help employees to survive the trauma of redundancy . |
| 27 | The overwhelming majority of these , the best qualified young people in the country , said they wanted a protected life in a big corporation , a home in the suburbs and a family of five or six children . |
| 28 | And J. D. O'Connor liked my articles — he said they created a great deal of excitement and interest ; I wrote under the name of Vesta . |