Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After they 'd decided to restore a 200-year-old country cottage on the outskirts of Stroud , Gloucester , housewife Amanda Rawson and her husband scouted around auction rooms looking for furniture to suit it . |
| 2 | I have friends who are magistrates and I know they feel tempted to give a fine or bail , when they should be giving a prison sentence . |
| 3 | If they felt compelled to pick a popular musician , then why was it not Eric Clapton , who is by far the most elegantly-tailored gentleman in rock ? |
| 4 | And they 've started to get a few things together have n't they ? |
| 5 | So far , they 've failed to make a serious dent in the all-important college music scene , essential if a so-called ‘ alternative ’ band wants to crack America ( and keep their US record deal ) . |
| 6 | He 's made a few of the lads sit up , and now they 've got to take a good , hard look at themselves . ’ |
| 7 | We met er , a beautiful old English sheep dog , seven months old and they 've got to find a new home for it , because they 're off to America . |
| 8 | but er , they 've got to get a new mini bus apparently , there in two years , which we new and er because like every thing else , it 's funded by the school not the authorities |
| 9 | In they 've got to have a certain |
| 10 | I ca n't understand it , they 've got to have a decent grade to go to university , but they seem to think that they can get in on D's and E's , if he gets D's and E's , he 's not going anywhere , except to work |
| 11 | All too often women say to me , basically they 've had to fake a sick line themselves because their mother or their father |
| 12 | Skirting a small lake , they had stared to see a great , grey fisher-bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge , until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamour . |
| 13 | The company says the attempt at a buyout failed because the managers realised that it would take longer than they had planned to develop a new generation of the 50 Series minicomputer line . |
| 14 | They had had had a tremendous send-off on the Sunday from the Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle , including 40 cars from the MG club . |
| 15 | The raid , on a property in Knotto Bottom Way , failed but not before they had tried to force a sliding window at the front of the home . |
| 16 | They had failed to provide a safe system . |
| 17 | They had agreed to have a final drink after Duncan had unpacked . |
| 18 | They have begun to dance a strange dance . |
| 19 | They have threatened to form a breakaway ivory trading bloc if CITES refuses to sanction a return to trade . |
| 20 | They have vowed to take a tough line on solvents after The Northern Echo uncovered glue abuse in Darlington . |
| 21 | Yet they have helped persuade a suspicious population to accept Mr Salinas 's much-needed reforms . |
| 22 | Nato is an association of independent states whose interests coincide to the extent that they have chosen to adopt a common structure within which to cooperate . |
| 23 | They have tried to make a personal and human drama out of what was , in fact , a sequence of astonishing scientific events . |
| 24 | Some of the cards they have produced suggest a definite electronic book strand in their thinking , at least in terms of linguistic products . |
| 25 | By asking what conditions would have obtained if particular individuals had behaved differently , they have aimed to give a clearer analysis both of the defining characteristics of holism , and of its relations to individualism . |
| 26 | But they have had to overcome a surprising amount of resistance to the idea that nurses should be involved in research , chiefly from within the nursing profession itself . |