Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably in all innocence they began to use the word Baal to describe the Lord God . |
| 2 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 3 | As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates . |
| 4 | In other words they needed to experience the ‘ sanctuary game ’ before they could cope with a ‘ breaking of sanctuary game ’ . |
| 5 | She crunched through toast and marmalade while Rory had a shower , then said they had to hurry down to breakfast , she 'd need the bulk to make sure a hangover did not develop from the great variety of booze they 'd sunk the night before . |
| 6 | come Saturday they 'd rearranged the whole ward and they put him on a W R V S air bed , he were in heaven on this bed , I said why the fuck could n't you have done that earlier ? |
| 7 | Startled by the systematic destruction of the force they had helped the Iraqis to build , the military critics have since grown bolder . |
| 8 | But in their clumsy efforts to break the steering lock they had broken the steering itself . |
| 9 | No wonder they had let the army take over this area ; it was worth nothing for farming . |
| 10 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 11 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 12 | The Chinese lunch they 'd had the secretary phone out for lay on the coffee table like a child 's experiments with putty and paint and designer ooze . |
| 13 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 14 | With great regret they decided to abandon the project in view of the ever-increasing cost . |
| 15 | Her parents , William and Nellie Tanner , had been forced out of the terraced house in Page Street , the home they had brought the family up in , when her father 's employer George Galloway , who owned the house , decided he was going to make changes . |
| 16 | Nottinghamshire police have released a recording of a girl they believed called the Kingsmill Hospital at Sutton in Ashfield claiming she 'd had a baby . |
| 17 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 18 | At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear . |
| 19 | It 's a good job they 'd got the second book off to the publishers . |
| 20 | For two weeks they managed to evade the press . |
| 21 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 22 | During interviews with more than 2,000 adults in Chicago they attempted to identify the conflicts , frustrations and other role strains encountered by parents , married couples , workers and breadwinners , the coping behaviours used to attempt to minimise their impact , and any current symptoms of depression and anxiety . |
| 23 | But in the Dr McKenna Cup against both Monaghan and Tyrone they failed to keep the momentum going . |
| 24 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 25 | For two days they battled to cross the Snake River , swollen by winter 's melted snows . |
| 26 | By early evening they had reached the documentary department offices on the second floor and in one desk , at the back of an open drawer , was the pair of scissors . |
| 27 | On Monday they agreed to allow the evacuation of about 5,000 people . |
| 28 | Diane always tried to keep her weekends for spending with Jed , but because of the rain they had to spend the early part of the day in their own below-stairs lounge , watching the Saturday morning cartoons on television . |
| 29 | Its representatives could not understand the peculiar reaction they got form the French whenever they produced their business cards . |
| 30 | Is n't that , meant we , we say that I know time goes on but in years they took to pay the loan . |