Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed to try to express any feelings of animosity at an early stage , rather than harbouring them until they exploded . |
| 2 | They seemed to have brought another world into the shop . |
| 3 | They 'd gone to see another hill , which had been a Roman fort , covered in ferns now . |
| 4 | And then the timekeeper could mark down that they were present , they 'd gone to work that day you see ? |
| 5 | The Girls slept in cubicles with others , which seemed strange at first but the fun they generated helped to overcome any homesickness . |
| 6 | CAPENHURST anglers did n't hook any whoppers , but they did manage to net enough tiddlers to ensure that the scales tipped in their favour in a challenge match against the Greyhound Angling Club from Chester . |
| 7 | They had stopped to get some fruit for her , and the stall-holder had insisted that it was a gift , refusing Michael 's money as if it was the norm to give his produce away for free . |
| 8 | They had dreaded reaching this moment . |
| 9 | They had decided to label each case ‘ A , ’ ‘ B , ’ ‘ C , ’ or ‘ D ’ if necessary . |
| 10 | Was he too remembering the last time they had decided to keep each other warm ? |
| 11 | ‘ Here 's to your play , ’ she said when they had decided to have another brandy . |
| 12 | After three quarters of an hour the advocates were informed that they had decided to defer any statement of their reasons and their conclusion as to the appropriate orders for a period of approximately 10 days until 3 February 1992 . |
| 13 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 14 | There had never been any warmth between the women , but they had learnt to respect each other , and Sarah had become accomplished at running the house . |
| 15 | For most of the century they earned from 10 to 12s a week ( 50-60p ) , and could , it was often argued , have earned more if they had chosen to work more hours . |
| 16 | Previously , the 1969 and 1977 NOP surveys had broached this problem , with a question asking people whether they had considered using some form of credit but had not actually done so — and exploring their reasons . |
| 17 | And they had come to feel that pulse . |
| 18 | Some of them were so nasty that they had learned to disguise most symptoms of ill health from her . |
| 19 | The noise of the wind and rain was terrible here , and they had to shout to hear each other . |
| 20 | The reason for the decision was that the burden of proof lay on the defendants to prove that they had not been negligent and they had failed to discharge this burden . |
| 21 | At 5 o'clock the justices indicated that they were retiring to consider their conclusions and to draft the reasons that they intended to state to support those conclusions . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman is being neither reasonable nor fair to the management or work force in British mines and is not taking account of the pain and suffering through which some of them had to go to achieve that improvement . |
| 23 | The flight to Paris had been punctuated by periodic bouts of turbulence and consequently neither of them had managed to get much sleep . |