Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This they seemed to find no difficulty in doing , once the meeting started . |
| 2 | To do this they had to trespass on the plaintiff 's land . |
| 3 | This they had done when they descended on the genteel town of Winchelsea . |
| 4 | This they had done together many times , though never in such a pattern setting as now . |
| 5 | This they had failed to do , and , as a result , damages were awarded for breach of fiduciary duty . |
| 6 | This they failed to do and to end the sorry spectacle an order came that the executioner should cut his head off . |
| 7 | This they failed to do . |
| 8 | This they failed to do — I do n't know how the problem was resolved — possibly by the purchase of a new engine . |
| 9 | This they did near Poitiers in mid-September , and for two days papal representatives went to and fro between the forces in the hope of securing an arrangement . |
| 10 | All this they did to please God , who had since the foundation of the Christian Church , been plagued by the gaudy contrivances of man . ’ |
| 11 | To achieve this they needed to keep in touch with the classroom directly rather than through intermediaries . |
| 12 | In the first half they had dominated the line-out through Bayfield and David Baldwin , they had handled the New Zealand scrum capably and they had put together two backline tries with training ground precision , whereas the struggling New Zealanders could find only two penalty goals from Greg Cooper and never looked like mounting a try-scoring attack . |
| 13 | The two decades on either side of 1500 were comparatively stable , with wages being only a little lower than in the middle of the fifteenth century , but by the second decade of the sixteenth they began to decline in face of increasing prices . |
| 14 | By daylight it was clear they had missed their rendezvous , and at about 0800 they set course for Malta , taking a back-bearing from Mount Etna . |
| 15 | ‘ The foremen made it clear they wanted to start pressing buttons on industrial action because the threat of compulsory redundancies is still there , ’ said Jim Thomas , chief Ford negotiator for the union . |
| 16 | Watching them line up their wheelchairs , moving them in the box which is two yards by a yard , it was clear they wanted to win . |
| 17 | The French were sufficiently worried by the rapidity of German industrialisation and by the quality of their wares that by the 1890s they had begun to invest in Russian railways , coal , steel and textiles as a way of controlling and reducing German competition . |
| 18 | But they took what few they 'd got left on our regiment to Ireland so nobody else 'd desert , while they rounded the others up and took them to Ireland you see . |
| 19 | Yeah it must of been a few they 'd got through |
| 20 | I was staggered they managed to get such a large mouthful in a relatively small mouth ! |
| 21 | On the breakfast tray the next day , was a different flower , a single brilliant pink blossom with dark leaves so glossy they seemed to have been polished . |
| 22 | , so I put her out in the end it erm it was surprising everybody knew what was going to happen they knew what I was going to do right when I come back in after swi place was empty they 'd got out that door before I 'd got her out the door but erm no it 's it 's very insulting . |
| 23 | But , in fact , the tables in the report show that while leukaemia rates for 1951–58 were 83 per cent of the national average , in the period 1971–1978 they had risen to 100 per cent . |
| 24 | I was listening with half my mind to the essay my pupil was reading and although the ideas he was expressing ( about sense-data ) were in themselves neither new nor interesting they had set off ideas of my own , as the ideas in undergraduate essays often do — I think of it as one of the uncovenanted benefits of teaching . |
| 25 | Teachers are unionized and a powerful enough group to prevent the decoupling of their salary levels from those of other public-sector employees , but none the less by 1985 they had seen the real value of their salaries fall to half their value a decade earlier . |
| 26 | By 1960 there were still only 1,300 beds but by 1985 they had risen to 12,000 . |
| 27 | By 1988–89 they had reached 3,825 million , with police manpower increased by 16,000 officers . |
| 28 | When the boy was two months old they had come to take him away . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , they were not immune to public pressure nor to the machinations of some of their fellow councillors and critics , and the realisation that their policy was not as flexible 85 they had hoped , they started to liberalise it both in its written form and its application to particular cases . |
| 30 | The couple were unaware they had hit the headlines around the world after leaving Nicole , nine , and four-year-old Diana alone while they enjoyed a nine-day Mexican holiday in Acapulco . |