Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They failed to make anything like the sort of headway the following day when they met the Wallabies in the rain at Newlands . |
| 2 | Fleischmann 's entry reports ‘ music , cooking , skiing , walking ’ — nothing very remarkable here perhaps , but they helped to bring him to the most intense period of his scientific career . |
| 3 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 4 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 5 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 6 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 7 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 8 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 9 | They undertook to do it for the whole of the Caldmore area did they ? |
| 10 | However , for musicians to take advantage of such technology , they needed to detach themselves from the conviction that high-cost studio technology and expertise was essential for the production of successful and valuable recordings . |
| 11 | Act guiltily and they 'll judge you guilty As they started to follow him down the street he got more and more worried He broke into a run . |
| 12 | We 've a right to govern our own country , and we 've a right not to be told by other countries that we should be split into two , that we 're two different nations because they decided to split us down the middle . |
| 13 | Believing that efficient charge separation could only be possible if the electron donor ( that is , chlorophyll ) and the electron acceptor ( quinone ) were in close proximity , they decided to put them into the same molecule . |
| 14 | They decided to price it in the middle of the range , at the ‘ black label ’ level , but they issued the actual record with a special Royal Purple design . |
| 15 | Like most families the Keiths and Mackenzies had brought picnics , and they decided to have theirs in the paddock where the Highland Games were being held . |
| 16 | Reluctantly tearing herself away from Marc as they went to ready themselves for the ceremony later on , she changed rapidly into the coat-dress bought for the wedding , then did her face and piled up her hair . |
| 17 | If they chose to greet him in the street , he did not acknowledge them . |
| 18 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 19 | ‘ When our family shareholders decided the time had come to sell the company , they offered to sell it to the management team if we could match the price a trade bidder could pay . |
| 20 | A few developed a liking for the racecourse and as it had been drummed into them to dress correctly for every occasion , somehow they managed to provide themselves with the obligatory long trailing gowns by lending each other clothes and accessories ; they appreciated the elegance of their suave escorts in tail coats and top hats . |
| 21 | Unless they dared to absent themselves from the slow unfolding of the plan — would not their keen minds continue to be needed ? |
| 22 | And they had to concern themselves with the possibility of igniting even greater disturbances which could not be contained by the forces at hand . |
| 23 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 24 | Many of those who went and fought for the Republicans were not always clear about why they were there , except that they felt a revulsion against fascism and a general feeling that they had to do something in the face of the frustrations of the 1930s . |
| 25 | And then they decide , found out they had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours , so there was I sitting there expecting a biscuit , I did n't get one . |
| 26 | They had to choose someone for the launching ceremony and our child 's name was first out of the hat . |
| 27 | When someone discovered something , they had to explain it to the others , and this reinforced their own understanding . |
| 28 | Dick and the nurses told him that , even after the pre-med , they had to chase him round the ward to get him to remove his shorts . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Two of my other men came running over and they had to pin me to the ground . |