Example sentences of "[vb pp] that they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group later claimed that they had released the two men . |
| 2 | For most of us they were n't , but everyone had felt that they had to mark the day , and what else could we do ? |
| 3 | The government for its part claimed that the Tigers had been guilty of over 30 breaches ; reports also indicated that they had used the opportunity to build new fortifications near government military bases in the north Jaffna area and near the Elephant Pass ( linking the Jaffna Peninsula with the rest of the country ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |