Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd gone to see another hill , which had been a Roman fort , covered in ferns now . |
| 2 | And then the timekeeper could mark down that they were present , they 'd gone to work that day you see ? |
| 3 | The Girls slept in cubicles with others , which seemed strange at first but the fun they generated helped to overcome any homesickness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If they had wanted to fly supersonic jets for a living , they could have applied for the RAF 's pilot training scheme — you have a one in six chance of passing that . |
| 6 | They had dreaded reaching this moment . |
| 7 | They had decided to label each case ‘ A , ’ ‘ B , ’ ‘ C , ’ or ‘ D ’ if necessary . |
| 8 | Certainly , when asked directly why they had decided to take early retirement , it was the most frequently mentioned reason by those concerned . |
| 9 | Was he too remembering the last time they had decided to keep each other warm ? |
| 10 | ‘ Here 's to your play , ’ she said when they had decided to have another brandy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some studies stated quite explicitly that they had chosen to study young men only because they felt that as male ethnographers they could only portray the male point of view . |
| 16 | I could not present them , at fifty-five and sixty , with the same situation they had had to face twenty years earlier when my mother had come home from the teacher 's training college where she was a lecturer in medieval history , given birth to me , and died of it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He admitted the Council had begun slowly , but said that was inevitable , and that bishops would work better now they had come to understand different points of view . |
| 19 | And they had come to feel that pulse . |
| 20 | Some of them were so nasty that they had learned to disguise most symptoms of ill health from her . |
| 21 | Lawyers claimed they had tried to suppress official papers showing the extent of the arms selling operation . |
| 22 | They had ceased to make monthly repayments in July 1990 and by April 1992 the arrears exceeded £64,000 . |
| 23 | It showed what the weather was and how they had started taking daily sunshine for granted that he had n't got any sort of jacket or sweater with him even though he expected to be away overnight . |
| 24 | There was some doubt as to whether the cleaner was an independent contractor , but the occupiers were held liable as they had failed to take reasonable steps to check that the work had been reasonably done : " The craft of the charwoman may have its mysteries but there is no esoteric quality in the nature of the work which the cleaning of a snow covered step demands . " |
| 25 | Local authorities had missed residents because they had failed to use up-to-date maps . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In a communiqué issued after negotiations in Kiev on Jan. 11 , Russia and Ukraine said that they had agreed to implement international arms control agreements . |
| 28 | Sure Style acted after a rash of complaints about salesmen terrorising potential customers , refusing to leave their homes until they had agreed to buy double glazing . |