Example sentences of "[verb] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 2 | I expect they wanted to watch the last few matches play the concluding holes . |
| 3 | But when it became clear that the disagreement was becoming a hot issue , they gave way … only to find they 'd misinterpreted the producer 's fractured English . |
| 4 | Bargain-hunters flocked to the stores , believing they were getting a good deal only to find they had paid the normal price or , in some cases , more . |
| 5 | Thames Water , who built the plant , say they had to spend the money to stay within European law , money which is ultimately paid by their customers . |
| 6 | Police say they had to enforce the law after 1am when the clocks went forward an hour . |
| 7 | The nursing home say they did consult the council … and have promised to carry out sensitive landscaping … along the gap . |
| 8 | For the Germans say they DID make the offer . |
| 9 | Conservative leader , David Walden , says they managed to convey the extent of the County 's problems . |
| 10 | He says they refused to accept the import licence because it was written in German . |
| 11 | What , McLeish wondered acerbically , did he imagine his wife and surviving daughter were thinking about — or did he assume they had taken the death of a daughter and a sister in their stride ? |
| 12 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 13 | Commons authorities had thought they had rid the building of all asbestos — used extensively in the 1920s and 30s — during a big clean-up operation 10 years ago . |
| 14 | NASA scientists had thought they 'd solved the technical problems which have dogged the Space Agency . |
| 15 | Yesterday Bushwing managing director David Walker confirmed they had withdrawn the business park part of the plan . |
| 16 | I was just politely told they 'd left the area — " This number is no longer available as the special investigation team has left the area . " |
| 17 | she had the two , the first one was n't put right , you know they had to get the exact one |
| 18 | Just over 10 per cent of the bottom two bands gave an answer which indicated they had used the wrong scale . |
| 19 | ‘ In the morning we heard they had increased the price of maize meal . |
| 20 | He had n't had to tell them to take their shoes off before boarding at the Co-op quay and in three days of cruising they had washed the sand off their feet after each shore trip . |
| 21 | And the farm has , last three years has lost a lot of money and er they had one farm at Colkirk which they 've now sold and er they just sort of decided they wanted to make the , they had a big barn , a big white barn which was a real old barn and he wanted to make that into a house . |
| 22 | then when his great moment came and his wife came to cut the cake all the photographers suddenly decided they needed to clean the lenses of their camera and his wife 's picture was never taken . |
| 23 | In order to understand what they had found they needed to classify the fossil organisms into particular kinds , more or less similar , to impose an order on what would otherwise have been a vast and chaotic mass of different and apparently unrelated relics . |
| 24 | If , if , if you 're right about this could you explain the psychological mechanism that makes these kinds of returns of the repressed happen , I mean why did the Fre why did the French students feel they had to recreate the revolution ? |
| 25 | With heads bowed they agreed to tour the reservation , but Yellow Wolf recalled : ‘ In peace councils force must not be talked . |
| 26 | THE Forestry Commission this week began felling 120 fine old beech trees in the Crown-owned Savernake Forest in Wiltshire , saying they had to protect the public from dangerous boughs . |
| 27 | In the meantime , the sheep took off on cue and I could hear they had reached the Lion by the din coming from the main bar , I was put in a police van and off to the " cop-shop " ; when I took off my smock and the stupid hat there really was a frightened wing commander underneath . |
| 28 | The Fort was a warren of underground tunnels and batteries and in every way a security nightmare , and the Prince 's staff and members of BitC ( also involved in the outing ) , who had done the recce , realized they had to get the Prince away from the youth schemes and down into the safety of the seminar very quickly . |
| 29 | I mean they had to abandon the bore-hole . |
| 30 | i mean they did get the guys . |