Example sentences of "[verb] they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intended as well to improve the educational chances of children in the deprived inner cities , when first proposed they had the somewhat dubious appearance of being the outcome of a bright idea , one that would kill a variety of birds with the same stone : up with the inner cities ; , down with Local Authorities ; up with privatization ; down with education in the arts . |
| 2 | Included in this force were eighty Aichi D3A1 bombers led by Takashigi Egusa from the Soryu , they were to bomb the aircraft carriers , but as there were no carriers to bomb they bombed the ships dotted about Pearl Harbour . |
| 3 | Then police would know they had the power they need and motorists would know that just one drink too many would cost them their licence . |
| 4 | Many people with HIV stay well for a long time and you would never know they had the virus . |
| 5 | ‘ There used to be a load of deer up there , but I expect they ate the buggers during the war . |
| 6 | The makers of Lamisil , Sandoz Pharmaceuticals of Surrey say they tested the drug for 5 years before using it on humans . |
| 7 | We 've had tons of letters — you know the sort of thing : people who say they knew the originals of the characters in Cotton Town , people who say he said ‘ bobbin-waggler ’ when he should have said ‘ throcket-shuttle ’ . |
| 8 | On a promotional video interview , they say they consulted the ancient Chinese book the I-Ching to make this choice , but when I bring it up Kier gives another reason . |
| 9 | However , the scientists say they believed the layer would continue to thin every winter at least for the next eight years , after which a ban on use of certain gases will start to have a beneficial effect . |
| 10 | For their part LWT say they approached the family through Thames Valley Police , acting on the advice of the officers involved . |
| 11 | But friends say they found the watch hours earlier . |
| 12 | Ludicrously , Rangers believed they had the game already well won . |
| 13 | Fortunately , there was a small cell of opinion within the Air Ministry that passionately believed they knew the reason for the failure and , more importantly , felt that they also knew the answer . |
| 14 | Furthermore , Morgan was interested in the patterns which kinship terms create , not just for themselves , but because he believed they reflected the system of marriage with which they had originally been used . |
| 15 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 16 | representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred . |
| 17 | She was n't his life : she was his youth ; Constanza says they had the same kind of public behaviour and as one gets older it counts . |
| 18 | He says they had the space so they decorated in the grand manner . |
| 19 | She says they had the house raised off it 's foundations a while ago … maybe that 's protected them this time . |
| 20 | He says they moved the office equipment out into vehicles . |
| 21 | Steve Royle says they used the tank for teaching people to row and it has enabled him to see lots of students and they can now coach everybody the right technique . |
| 22 | TWO of the jurors who were instrumental in jailing Mike Tyson on a charge of rape have decided they made the wrong decision . |
| 23 | When the milking was done they collected the eggs , warm from scattered nests in the barn and the stable block , or snugly hidden in hedges . |
| 24 | But when they came to drink they found the water had changed to wine . |
| 25 | When their work was framed they preferred the frames to be ‘ en fuite ’ , or to project the canvas forward , rather than traditional frames which enclosed paintings and made them recede . |
| 26 | They had not felt they had the right to refuse to participate , and video recordings are very threatening in their very nature , and in Doug Green 's case his Head of Department , Mary Law , was his ‘ friendly critic ’ . |
| 27 | The people were cheated into believing they had the highest standard of living in Europe . |
| 28 | Officers have said they tolerated the old conditions for too long . |
| 29 | People who had said — during another part of the interview — that they preferred the smallest possible individual instalments turned out to be just as likely to switch to a shorter repayment schedule ( given lower APR and credit costs ) as people who had said they preferred the shortest possible repayment schedule . |
| 30 | Tullibardine , far more cautious , was reluctant even to cross to the mainland and when they did at last set sail they suffered the usual Jacobite bad luck . |