Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | Ludicrously , Rangers believed they had the game already well won . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After the couple 's death police discovered bank statements which showed they paid the builders £23,000 for it . |
| 6 | With a 10-strong team heading for the council chamber , Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams claimed they out-polled the SDLP in the city by some 9,000 votes . |
| 7 | Yeah , and what happened they lost the letter |
| 8 | Many experts , however , reckoned they had the germ of a brilliant idea . |
| 9 | When they arrived they found the police already there' ( Labour Research , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | When police arrived they found the two victims lying on the floor . |
| 11 | Cos the the reason they , they er done away with the steam tugs and had a diesel , because a diesel you could start up and er when the dredging finished they tipped the tug at Ipswich and er if they want they one of the big ships up the river , cos then they could start the diesel up quite , right away , whereby a steam tug you a fire there all the time . |
| 12 | When Sara returned they drank the ale and she brought up the subject of an increased allowance for her and the children . |
| 13 | By the time the train reached Ealing Broadway they had been in and out of every car and as the train returned they followed the same routine . |
| 14 | Once or twice they followed a track that simply petered out , as though it had never been ; but always , when they returned they found the path she should have chosen was the path the man with the staff had been down before them . |
| 15 | The teenager left him alone to go to a disco but when she and a friend returned they found the child dead . |
| 16 | In the hush that followed they heard the back door slam . |
| 17 | ‘ The four children were not showing any signs of infection but during routine screening , which we carry out every week , we discovered they had the bacteria , ’ said a hospital spokeswoman . |
| 18 | When the meat had shrivelled and curled they waved the sticks in the cold air for a minute , unskewered it , blew off the coating of ash and tossed it from hand to hand until it was cool enough to eat . |
| 19 | When the two kings met they had the first of many quarrels . |
| 20 | When the borders opened up last year , they realised they had the worst . |
| 21 | A CAB driver and an unemployed man will make close to £2.5 million after a jury ruled they wrote the Fifties classic Why Do Fools Fall In Love ? |
| 22 | THE IRA yesterday admitted they planted the firebomb which damaged a toilet at London 's Hilton Hotel on Sunday . |
| 23 | Remember , only last year the Tories admitted they bungled the introduction of tests for seven-year-olds — by making them too complicated and time consuming . |
| 24 | As they went they heard the clatter of feet in the porch of the church , and voices that spoke in reverent undertones , but not from awe of the holy place . |
| 25 | The remit of the TAS said aid and assist , which meant they had the right to weigh in but the locals had the right to offer obstruction . |
| 26 | As a result it was accepted by the 1630s that English colonies could take most decisions for themselves , and this meant they developed the institutions which , over the course of time , grew in a way that enabled them to become self-governing and then independent by stages which could be so small as sometimes to be imperceptible . |
| 27 | Scotland did their best in very difficult circumstances but a late penalty goal meant they started the eight-match tour with a one-point defeat . |
| 28 | Everyone else was allowed a lot of latitude , particularly in sexual matters , and then just before they died they took the consolamentum which permitted them to enter the life of the spirit . ’ |
| 29 | Indeed , in many cases they were precisely the group targeted to carry the burden of job losses in the 1980s , and even when the economy improved they remained the group most likely to have long spells of unemployment . |
| 30 | Two witnesses thought they saw the aircraft 's nose rise slightly before they and many other witnesses saw the nose and left wing drop almost simultaneously . |