Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first half they had dominated the line-out through Bayfield and David Baldwin , they had handled the New Zealand scrum capably and they had put together two backline tries with training ground precision , whereas the struggling New Zealanders could find only two penalty goals from Greg Cooper and never looked like mounting a try-scoring attack . |
| 2 | Teachers are unionized and a powerful enough group to prevent the decoupling of their salary levels from those of other public-sector employees , but none the less by 1985 they had seen the real value of their salaries fall to half their value a decade earlier . |
| 3 | The couple were unaware they had hit the headlines around the world after leaving Nicole , nine , and four-year-old Diana alone while they enjoyed a nine-day Mexican holiday in Acapulco . |
| 4 | It was so crowded they had to unlace the side-flaps of the enormous tent and raise them up so that people could sit outside the tent , down the sides , and though we could n't see him very well , we heard him . |
| 5 | By 1833 they had persuaded the government to provide a small grant towards this work . |
| 6 | In a further message on Oct. 30. they threatened to kill the hostages if the government launched a new offensive against the cartel . |
| 7 | During the war they both worked in the local Heathcoat factory making parts for aeroplanes — he was Chairman ; she was on the factory floor — then in 1946 they began to plant the garden in earnest . |
| 8 | In 1870 they helped organize the first All-Russian Industrial Exhibition and the first All-Russian Congress of Manufacturers and People Interested in Native Industry . |
| 9 | In September 1983 , the Dalgety Spillers group took over and by June 1984 they had shut the mill . |
| 10 | By around 1520 they had developed the rose-cut or rosette by careful faceting of the convex face of a flat-based stone . |
| 11 | The juries themselves were confident they had understood the evidence . |
| 12 | A spokesman at the Los Angeles hospital said the 63 year old actress — famous for her roles in My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany 's had a ‘ low-grade malignancy ’ and that doctors were confident they had removed the entire tumour . |
| 13 | Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre , Los Angeles , said it was a ‘ low-grade malignancy ’ and doctors were confident they had removed the entire tumour . |
| 14 | how useful they had found the feedback ; |
| 15 | She was angry they had wasted the precious minutes on stupid small talk . |
| 16 | Computer print-outs so big and heavy they 'd wrenched the bin off its lamp-post . |
| 17 | By 1978 they had formed the International Crustal Research Drilling Group and a team of a dozen or so , along with graduate students and drillers , was at work in Iceland . |
| 18 | And he hit her , sort of a , you know , a slap in the back but her glasses were loose they fell hit the steel base of the table crack ! |
| 19 | I thought she 'd just er you know , she was worried about her children cos as usual they 'd left the keys behind , they were the house . |
| 20 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 21 | The pressure was becoming too much for him , and though at first they had taken the challenge with both hands , and had almost made a joke of it , now the months of confinement and running , running and confinement , the eternal hiding , were beginning to take their toll of his spirit . |
| 22 | In 1987 they agreed to pay the sum to help bring construction forward , but the project has been dogged by setbacks . |
| 23 | In the 1580s the Turkey Company and the Venice Company were founded , and in 1592 they combined to form the Levant Company , which learned enough about the riches of the Indies for various members of it to organize the East India Company , which had about £68,000 trading capital for its first voyage and a charter granted on 31 December 1600 . |
| 24 | OK , there might n't perhaps be all that much left over now from the early joys of their marriage ; yet , in an odd sort of way , the longer they 'd abjured the divorce-courts , the stronger had grown the ties that bound them together : home , children , friends , memoria , insurance policies ; and above all , perhaps , the sheer length — the ever-increasing length — of the time they 'd spent together as man and wife . |
| 25 | I put them back into the tank , still amazed they 'd had the strength to move the glass . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the Japanese , with relatively few elements of their three-million strong army , achieved more rapid success than they had expected : by 11 January 1942 they had occupied the Celebes ; on 4 February the Allies on Amboina surrendered ; on 15 February Singapore fell , and on 19–20 February Timor was invaded , the main force of its defenders surrendering a few days later . |
| 27 | In a moment or two they had left the Trevi behind them . |
| 28 | On 12th April 1827 they met to discuss the possibility of transferring the School to new buildings on a new site . |
| 29 | Cranston , full of wine and his own theories , was now certain they had grasped the truth . |
| 30 | In 1983 they missed capturing the seat by only 74 votes but the sitting Tory MP , Jeremy Hanley , has since increased his majority . |