Example sentences of "the [noun sg] they [vb past] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three defendants were formally cleared by the judge , but then straight after the case they issued a statement admitting they had intended to remove animals from a vehicle and set fire to it . |
| 2 | Because of the responsibility they had a pound was no covering it as far as they were concerned . |
| 3 | the licensing they sent a reminder this morning , I said they did n't need do that , I know it 's last day of April , it 's gone up |
| 4 | However the crash crew person asked the instructor to accompany her in the fire vehicle , and on arrival at the vehicle they asked a bystander to raise the alarm . |
| 5 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 6 | Driver Nicola Jenkins and passenger Mark Bachelor told the Coroner they felt a jerking movement and pulled into the hard shoulder . |
| 7 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the evening they had a competition . |
| 9 | In the evening they constructed a bonfire outside , where they drank the healths of James II and his son , forcing passers-by to do the same , and offering insults to those who refused . |
| 10 | In the Globe they paid a penny to stand . |
| 11 | They drank their beers and smiled at each other and in the distance they heard a street procession wending its noisy way in their direction . |
| 12 | Unbeknown to the tailor they had a key to the shop and let themselves in to sleep off their excesses . |
| 13 | They had the glue had the glue they did a lot of gluing I suppose fixing on the material |
| 14 | Sometimes they made love brilliantly , and for the rest they acknowledged a pleasure in each other , and a deep need for the comfort that each brought , in bed or out of it . |
| 15 | I confess that I give pride of place to the story of his children on the occasion they organised a charade displaying a Crusader knight returning from the wars . |
| 16 | And er we , one of the few times my dad came to Foundry Lane he I got a book , I think it were called Tiger Tim and , on the back they gave a model that you cut out with scissors and pu |
| 17 | Well it should n't it it did i but if you just went up to the top they got a pair of I should think about four or five lengths they had to take it off the sprocket and er course you see they |
| 18 | When they finally entered the ground they made a dash for the lift . |
| 19 | In the Wintertime they had a boat they called the Redloch and she went to Stramness and took sillocks from Stramness and took to the gut factory here in the Wintertime . |
| 20 | After he had come to collect her at the flat they joined a party of junior officers and debutantes at the Haymarket Theatre to see Pygmalion by the fashionable playwright George Bernard Shaw . |
| 21 | He says they 're not real gipsies and that last time they came to the district they caused a lot of damage to crops and stole several turkeys . ’ |
| 22 | In the past they had a degree of self-doubt because many realized that they owed their position to factors other than merit . |
| 23 | At the scene of the offence they found a Renault , a Peugeot and a Toyota car , each with a smashed window . |
| 24 | Yeah , but with us on the plane they had a privilege you see . |
| 25 | In the autumn they established a Women 's International League based on a joint platform of women 's rights and pacifism : ‘ only free women can build up the peace which is to be . ’ |
| 26 | At the crossroads they glimpsed a group of villagers huddled round the blackened scaffold . |
| 27 | In the end they found a gap behind a curtain , in a part of the aircraft where there were no seats . |
| 28 | In the end they used a locomotive which diverted the steam into tanks behind the engine by means of a ducted exhaust . |
| 29 | And it was important , the way they built a stack . |
| 30 | Carter had told the police at the time they had a row over money and his wife had walked out , never to return . |