Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To answer this they brought the sodium iodide detector over to look for the tell-tale gamma rays . |
| 2 | To find this they enlisted the help of the oldest inhabitant , Betty Bell , who prodded about the village green with her stick . |
| 3 | The next best thing was being given a month 's free credit , and by most people taking this they knocked the wind out of the banker 's sails . |
| 4 | In this they reflected the children 's literature of the time as created by authors such as Noel Streatfield , Christine Pullien-Thompson and Enid Blyton . |
| 5 | Acknowledging this they presented the Club with an engraved silver rose bowl in 1984 in appreciation of some 15 years of play at Henley which they had chosen from the Daily Telegraph Book on Golf Courses ! |
| 6 | Where they could not achieve this they introduced the fish Gambusia affinis , which eats mosquito larvae , and applied petroleum oils and Paris Green ( copper acetoarsenite ) as poisons . |
| 7 | The two cardinals were so loudly applauded that it was clear they represented the wishes of the majority . |
| 8 | On a number of occasions the soldiers of the garrison seized wool supplies in the town when their wages were in arrears ; in 1407 they sold the wool and in 1421 the Staplers had to pay £4,000 to recover it . |
| 9 | I took a position on the edge of one of the bridges across the Seine and told , in halting fashion , stories about forests so high they pierced the clouds . |
| 10 | And once they climbed so high they entered the clouds and there was nothing but a great whiteness around them as if the world had been erased by a giant rubber . |
| 11 | In the zemstvo elections of 1909–10 they used the marginally greater electoral freedom granted after 1905 to elect vigorous upholders of the peasant interest . |
| 12 | 12 They calculated the continuously compounded annual rates of return for 49 unit trusts between 1 January 1964 and 31 December 1974 . |
| 13 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 14 | In 401 they entered the western part of the Empire , under the leadership of Alaric I. Once again they oscillated between friendship with the Romans and outright hostility , depending on the possibility of imperial recognition and acceptance . |
| 15 | well I know when , I know when Alan and Jade were both made emplo , unemployed and Alan withdrawal his dole and when Jade was unemployed they took the dole off Alan and give him sixty pound a week which was you know |
| 16 | From 1 March 1991 they increased the interest rate from 1.9 per cent a month to 2 per cent , raising the APR from 26.8 to 28.3 per cent . |
| 17 | ( Frottole were performed in France. ) 26 They inherited the syllabic note-against-note style , dominated by the text and with a good many repeat notes , lightly relieved by melismas or imitation , and the clearly marked cadences . |
| 18 | In 795 they aided the Franks against rebellious Saxons , and in 798 the King of the Abotrites actually conquered Nordalbingian rebels , captured their leader and brought him to Charles . |
| 19 | At Zog Central they found the policewoman and asked her for the key to their spaceship . |
| 20 | They set up a system of hotel coupons ( 1867 ) , through rail tickets , international ship and rail timetables , and guidebooks , and between 1873 and 1874 they introduced the Circular Note , forerunner of the travellers cheque . |
| 21 | 17–6–1848 They forwarded a memorial to Lord John Russell praying that the Post Office should be caused to be shut throughout the Kingdom on the Lord 's day ; and on 19th February 1849 they petitioned the shareholders at Perth against running trains on the Sabbath . |
| 22 | One thing is absolutely certain and that is nearly all the US companies that set out down the T.Q.M. route 10 years ago are still convinced they took the right decision . |
| 23 | Nathaniel Clayton was working in adjoining premises as an iron founder and steam-packet owner , and in 1842 they established the firm of Clayton , Shuttleworth & Company . |
| 24 | But as he banked £1 million last week , Abbey Stadium boss John Beck was glad they took the gamble . |
| 25 | Although Japanese forces entered French Indo-China in 1940 they left the administration and armed forces intact . |
| 26 | In 1975 they reached the FA Cup final , only to be beaten — by West Ham . |
| 27 | In 1904 they opened the first Poor Law farm colony , in Essex , to provide work training for the unemployed . |
| 28 | By 1954 Piper had brought out a 250 hp development of the aircraft called the Aztec but , to confuse us all , in 1960 they offered the Apache 235 which , as you may have guessed , sported a pair of 235 hp Lycoming engines . |
| 29 | The recovery was slow and by 1937 the rate was still at 9%. 3 By 1941 , then , people looked back across two decades of mass unemployment to the end of the previous war , and by and large they assumed the same thing would happen again . |
| 30 | They took the view that under section 34(2) of the Children Act 1984 they had the power to order that there should be no contact between the mother and the child , thus preventing the local authority from carrying out the rehabilitation plan . |