Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they 've got a short concentration . |
| 2 | A year later she and her son Samuel travelled to Bury St Edmunds , where they helped found a Congregational church . |
| 3 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 4 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 5 | The strategy they used involved an ingenious mixture of design and chance . |
| 6 | As an estimate of the drift of religious change and of what was acceptable to local people , the tactics they adopted proved a hideous disaster whose memories have scarred the country to the present day . |
| 7 | Betty 's Betty has lived on they had roast beef for Christmas because they 'd eaten no red meat for so long |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
| 10 | ‘ If only they 'd kept the old Dicky Doyle cover , with a few blank pages inside , it 'd still be going ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |
| 13 | They 'd reached a dramatic opening , and through it she could see the moon-silvered sea hundreds of feet below , moving in a slow , deep swell towards the foot of the cliffs . |
| 14 | They 'd joined the International Terrorist Freemasonry … ’ |
| 15 | They 'd visited the old Mrs Scamp and then so had I and all I 'd found out was that she was Jo 's mother-in-law and probably had a picture of Hitler on her bedside table . |
| 16 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 17 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 18 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 19 | Because when Wendy and Laura had returned they 'd brought a verbal message from Suzie to the effect that she 'd met a Danish boy and had no intention of returning to England to complete her studies . |
| 20 | Cos they 'd brought a little dog to be walked . |
| 21 | ‘ And they 'd learnt a fair bit in the war , with their OSS Office of Strategic Services , same as our SOE . |
| 22 | Aberdeen arrived back from Turin this afternoon , knowing they 'd taken a major step towards the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup . |
| 23 | They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise … |
| 24 | Dad ran a garage and petrol station on the main road through Strathspeld village and Mum had a wee gift and coffee shop ; Dad had been worried after the Six-Day War when they 'd introduced the fifty-miles-an-hour speed limit and even issued fuel-rationing books , but that had n't lasted very long and , even though petrol cost more nowadays , people were still travelling and using cars . |
| 25 | men when they 'd retrieved a live person , or even a dead one . |
| 26 | NASA scientists had thought they 'd solved the technical problems which have dogged the Space Agency . |
| 27 | They 'd left the other door wide open , and as Juliet passed , she caught sight of a rumpled bed with blue sheets . |
| 28 | ‘ I was caught at Dunkirk when they thought they 'd won the bloody war . |
| 29 | Finding herself passing Tony 's lodgings one evening when they 'd had no pre-arranged date , she had decided on impulse to drop in and surprise him . |
| 30 | Surely , after the wonderful night of passion she had experienced with Ross , they 'd had a real chance of mending their relationship ? |