Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite being easy trips they did have a valuable effect on crews . |
| 2 | As an estimate of the drift of religious change and of what was acceptable to local people , the tactics they adopted proved a hideous disaster whose memories have scarred the country to the present day . |
| 3 | Not your fault they had to hire a bloody crane ! |
| 4 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 5 | Within two months they had made a first attempt to get a suitable building site — part of the field in which the new Presbyterian School was to be built . |
| 6 | They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 7 | By the time England won another Test they had played a further thirty , plus two that were rain-restricted and one washed out altogether . |
| 8 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 9 | They 'll continue their campaign to win back the security they 'd worked a whole lifetime for . |
| 10 | At one point they stopped to smoke a chillim in a glade where the conifers were thinner and dense clumps of feathery-leafed bamboo had spread across the open spaces . |
| 11 | It concerned a smuggling gang who had previously used a minibus to bring the drugs from Morocco , but because of increased activity by the Spanish Customs they decided to operate a seaborne campaign using a yacht called Cornish Lady . |
| 12 | Brown had fallen miserably in love ( so he said ) with a girl named Betty Fowler , whom he 'd met one Friday evening at a hop held in the Oxford Town Hall , and already on their second meeting they had vowed a mutual , eternal love . |
| 13 | So when they left Bristol they went to find a place that takes , , then they took the wrong turning off the |
| 14 | The first body they passed had a piece of paper pinned to its blanket , Smith , Maisie . |
| 15 | In addition the following details were known about each driver : age , sex , annual mileage , and the number of years they had held a driving licence . |
| 16 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 17 | Samantha Sherratt , who is compiling the Information Pack , would be glad to hear from people with any comments or details of problems they faced following a partner 's imprisonment . |
| 18 | Even Picasso and Braque , who shared their discoveries so intimately that for a while they came to share a common vision , looked , it will be seen , at Cézanne in different ways . |
| 19 | Masters of their art , Stock , Aitken and Waterman realised that day they had unearthed a talent that could outshine anything , even in their empire . |
| 20 | The next day they began digging a pit at the base of a rock . |
| 21 | The next day they decided to use a different crane and the chains were removed . |
| 22 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Requiring plaintiffs to specify the hiring or promotional method they considered to have a " disparate impact " on the work force . |
| 24 | Last week they 'd shared a bottle of champagne to celebrate the birth of the seventh grandchild . |
| 25 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 26 | Significantly , the category they won reflects a most competitive area in the market namely ‘ domestic tufted , selling at less than £10 a square yard to the trade . ’ |
| 27 | Heavy posts , reeking of creosote and paint , towered up as high as the holly trees in the hedge , and the board they carried threw a long shadow across the top of the field . |
| 28 | In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood . |
| 29 | By their guerrilla activities they hoped to generate a revolt against Rome , thereby hastening the coming of the Kingdom . |
| 30 | The T'ang 's words were a harmless play on the name of the Longjing ch'a , but for Ben they seemed to hold a special meaning . |