Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She believes that if patients and the purchasers who obtain medical care for them began to demand a better quality of front line service , then hospital managers would very quickly do something to improve the tasks undertaken by and supervision given to preregistration house officers . |
| 2 | All of them died leaving a minor to succeed . |
| 3 | This year four of them agreed to set a low common external tariff instead . |
| 4 | Indeed most of them had made a kind of negative progress . |
| 5 | On Sunday all of them had attended a cousin 's wedding . |
| 6 | Some of the doctors — alas not many — were essentially reasonable men ; but most of them had developed a positively insensate hatred for Mrs Castle . |
| 7 | Indeed , if any one of them had killed a cat , even in these special circumstances , he would have been put to death for it . |
| 8 | If any of them had displayed a leaning towards the stage , Dinah would no doubt have encouraged it ; but they had neither the presence nor the voice , nor , she would think despairingly , looking round them all , the appearance ; every one was Paul over again . |
| 9 | One of them had had a recent bypass , heart bypass operation . |
| 10 | The men used matches to see around , one of them had lit a straw bail to get more light . |
| 11 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 12 | Benny was the only one they knew without brothers and sisters , most of them had to share a Mam and a Dad with five or six others . |
| 13 | Neither of them had spoken a word since leaving London . |
| 14 | By the time one of them had climbed a little way up , the Bookman had long disappeared . |
| 15 | Senior Household officials like the Treasurer of the Chamber , the Chamberlain , the Vice Chamberlain , the Captain of the Guard , the Controller of the Household , and the Treasurer of the Household evidently held their posts under the Tudors without a patent and at the pleasure of the monarch , although by the reign of Charles I many of them had acquired a life interest . |
| 16 | But the two of them had had a falling-out on the night of the capitalization party . |
| 17 | By the end of the fifteenth century fewer Chancery officials were clerics than in mid-century , and more of them had had a legal education . |
| 18 | Getting no satisfaction from that quarter a few of them had taken a problem to a union meeting . |
| 19 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 20 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 21 | Although the Boards had somewhat uninspiring regional names , most of them tried to present a more appealing local public face by using acronyms or logos such as ‘ MANWEB ’ for the Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board , and ‘ Seeboard ’ for the South Eastern Board . |
| 22 | The stones in the centre of the channel were hidden now : the slow trickle of water which flowed around them had become a fast-flowing stream , which covered them . |