Example sentences of "[verb] they [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know they had blocked that from you . |
| 2 | And I did n't know they 'd done any extra days . |
| 3 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 4 | They found they had to aid each other to achieve coupling , or they would slip apart to achieve nothing . |
| 5 | And as as I say they had to put all the mens name in the hat and pick them out and put up a roster and they had their turn of going down the bread week by week . |
| 6 | At last , Swan must have decided they had done enough teasing . |
| 7 | All Nottingham was beautiful and along there 'd got great big flags and they 'd trimmed all Christmas they 'd they 'd sewed all Christmas things on them . |
| 8 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 9 | By the end of the year they reckoned they had released some 432 men , 180 wives , and 1,341 children . |
| 10 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 11 | Er , I ca n't say that I , I , I , I know they did do that yes , but I ca n't say that it er it interfered with us much and I ca n't er , ev ever think of anybody , you know wh sort of talking about it like in any respect . |
| 12 | Anyway , they all sensed they had to make this work . |
| 13 | Swindon Crown Court heard they 'd consumed some 17 pints of beer . |
| 14 | Ken 's friendships and the way he established them continued to surprise those who were on the periphery of his activities . |
| 15 | It is rugby 's version of the north-south divide , given further emphasis when last season 's England captains Will Carling and Rob Andrew , who play for Harlequins and Wasps respectively , decided they had had enough of travelling and declared for London . |
| 16 | Sikhs decided they had had enough . |
| 17 | But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’ |
| 18 | It made the team feel they had regained some control over this area of work , and by focusing in such detail , highlighted its importance and the skills involved in investigations . |
| 19 | The cynics , licking their lips in anticipation , were ready and willing to use what little influence they had to keep this Morrissey thing under wraps . |
| 20 | Yeah , they got they 'd got half hour 's drive from Minehead and that their car broke down , they had to go up , they had to call the , was it the A are they ? |
| 21 | By the time Victoria 's Guider called her , they felt they 'd known each other for ages . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , Bancroft et al. ( 1977 ) found that more than half the attempters felt they had needed some form of help before the act , and that the most common type of help wanted was someone to talk to . |
| 23 | No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind . |
| 24 | No encore was needed , despite the clamour for one and the band left knowing they 'd converted all who had come with an open mind . |
| 25 | Oh I thought they 'd stopped all these . |
| 26 | Thought they 'd had enough . |
| 27 | It appeared that The Smiths thought they had given enough exposure to James and that Factory were now taking advantage of the situation . |
| 28 | Somewhere below , among orchards and woods , lay that sequestered spot which the topographers thought they had found all those years ago . |
| 29 | I bet they needed to get some food inside of them . |
| 30 | ‘ But my father remarking that your mother had n't changed implies they had known each other in the past , and the painting seems to confirm that . |