Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority . |
| 9 | The two major electricity generators , PowerGen and National Power , declined to comment until they had assessed the white paper . |
| 10 | Those passing fewer than 7 modules would have their grant suspended until they had passed the additional modules . |
| 11 | To this day Girls who worked in the 1920s would not consider others to be proper Tillers unless they had done the inevitable Paris stint . |
| 12 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |
| 13 | Well they 'd sell you the most expensive because they 'd got the most commission |
| 14 | Not a few men lost teeth because they had met the big man at the wrong moment . |
| 15 | The Bogsiders felt that they had won — not only because they had kept the RUC out of their area but because they had forced the British Army to intervene . |
| 16 | the guerrillas did not deserve any mercy , since they had started the civil wars . |
| 17 | The countryside had become flatter since they had passed the raw black scars on the mining areas and the remaining tracts of Sherwood Forest . |
| 18 | It was inevitable yesterday , as Gordon Brown gave his performance , that Labour 's backbenchers were wondering whether they had picked the right man . |
| 19 | The Bugis had fallen between two sciences , forgetting the old before they had mastered the new . |
| 20 | And then after they had reached the other end , erm one of the men would go and stand in the middle of the two and the and the other sitting down . |
| 21 | She remembered it later on , after they had inspected the three pretty bedrooms and the wonderful bathroom with its big bath and tiled frieze of mermaids ; and she debated within herself whether or not she had better tell Susan . |
| 22 | She stopped trying to move herself voluntarily , and relied on nurses to move her arm and leg for her , so that their task was to ensure that she was always correctly positioned in relation to her spasticity , after they had performed the normal nursing duties of bathing her and helping her on and off the commode . |
| 23 | Paul Ware scored the goal which won the Autoglass Trophy Southern Area final for Stoke after they had drawn the first leg against Peterborough 3–3 . |
| 24 | The few other tourists who had been here had hurried for cover when they had seen the black sky approaching . |
| 25 | Whatever you can make of equation [ 9 ] there is no denying that it is a differential equation , not so very different in its way from the differential equations that Newton and Maxwell had used when they had created the fundamental basis of classical physics . |
| 26 | On the ground , when they had left the parked plane , Myeloski excused himself and went to the men 's room . |
| 27 | It only reminded her of how she and Trish had hooted with laughter when they 'd seen the engraved invitations that had gone out in three languages for this evening 's showing . |
| 28 | A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms : |
| 29 | The married women in the room looked righteous as though they had made the unselfish decision . |
| 30 | Their interest in Celtic lands and civilization became apparent only in the fourth century B.C. , though they had founded the important colony of Marseilles as early as the end of the seventh century . |