Example sentences of "[vb past] they [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MPMR leaders stated in a news conference that they did not regret their past actions and believed they had assisted in the defeat of the Pinochet dictatorship and the restoration of democracy . |
| 2 | The RUC at first believed they had died in the fire , but it started a murder investigation three days later . |
| 3 | The line is now extinct but at the time we arrived they had lived in the castle for some five hundred years . |
| 4 | Newman guessed they had gone to the security vault behind the counter . |
| 5 | like most of the the child care was done by the girls , but there was actually a few of the boys that decided they wanted to work in the nurseries and o eh the five that done , there 's actually two that we know of a are actually doing child care as a career . |
| 6 | Liverpool 's inexperience meant they got sucked into the type of game a more experienced side would never have got involved in . |
| 7 | like , you know at that age I knew they had to go across the sea . |
| 8 | Outside the windows all was darkness and she understood they had stopped in the tunnel . |
| 9 | They were never sold , though the lawyers thought they had gone with the others . |
| 10 | Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev , in Belgrade on a new Balkan peace mission , and the European Community insisted they remained committed to the Vance-Owen plan . |
| 11 | Kate said they 'd gone to the army display and mentioned the rations that were taken on Antarctic expeditions . |
| 12 | Not one of the many East Berliners I spoke to at several crossing points said they meant to stay in the West . |
| 13 | Charity Organiser Margaret Cormack said they hoped to embark on the ‘ charity trail ’ again in the not too distant future . |
| 14 | The crew said they had survived on the upturned hull , sleeping huddled together in a compartment the size of a double bed . |
| 15 | Mr Perkins said they had walked into the surgery and poured bleach into the tank . |