Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hardest task for the lads was swamp skiing , a severe test of cooperative behaviour where they had to navigate a 50 metre course barred by three electrified barriers on two 10 foot planks of wood . |
| 2 | In disgust the guide led them back to the car park , where they overtipped to avoid a scene and got away without trouble . |
| 3 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 4 | Although the band had chosen where they wanted to record the album — Compass Point in Nassau , Bahamas — they had no one to record with us usual collaborators Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne , producers behind the laid-back groove of ‘ Pills'N'Thrills And Bellyaches ’ , were tied up with commitments to their Perfecto label . |
| 5 | While their father accepted that they were both of an age where they wanted to fly the nest , their mother , who , it had to be said , doted on her son — who 'd been a constant source of worry to her — took a little longer . |
| 6 | Albrow ( 1986 ) has questioned what he calls the ‘ myth of the heroic struggle ’ in sociology , but it seems clear that many disciplines had to fight hard to gain entry and become established , especially where they appeared to threaten the hegemony of existing disciplines , as English and modern languages did with classics , the social sciences with history , and now perhaps computing with mathematics . |
| 7 | really the ninth month except they decided to stick a couple of m extra months in to get the twelve . |
| 8 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 9 | And although they managed to change the yellow suit quite easily another disastrous creation would have been bought in its place had Ellie not been with her . |
| 10 | And he was , he had an unfortunate death , because he he he his body was buried in the little churchyard near to the village where he had been brought up , and he 'd no sooner been buried , than they decided to run a road through , or , erm , something , so his body had to be unearthed and moved somewhere else , and it was n't until nineteen sixteen , that the body erm , was taken out and was taken to Paris , and restored in the er , where so many other famous people erm , do have their tombs and their remembrances . |
| 11 | The willingness of the commons to grant the maltote in these years should dispose of the argument that they wished to see the tax abolished . |
| 12 | By and large , planners were associated with incomers in that they wished to control the way things were done , viz to impose rules where there were none before and to replace the old social norms by fiat instead of the usual agreement between households . |
| 13 | Fortunately the Diocesan Advisory Committee decided that Pennant Melangell Church was of such importance that they wished to promote a full scheme of repair and reordering . |
| 14 | It appeared that they wished to have the system completed and in operation before paying further . |
| 15 | The Russians stuck firmly to the Moscow terminology of December 1945 , including the reference to trusteeship , the reason being that they wished to prevent the Americans from going back on their past support for trusteeship . |
| 16 | Byelarus and Ukraine had stated at the Dec. 21 meeting that they wished to sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |
| 17 | On April 13 the main religious parties rejected the proposed Islamic Law bills , saying that they sought to perpetuate an interest-based economy . |
| 18 | This criticism was in part a reflection of the call made by the Report of the Committee on Physical Deterioration for greater physical and mental education for adolescents , but it also pointed to the three main criticisms of clubs which were reiterated years later by Freeman : that they could only really provide amusement ; that their positive educational value was small ; and that they failed to reach the mass of boys . |
| 19 | Officials at the bank now admit that they failed to consider the affected population , and that more pressure could have been put on the Indian government to produce environmental plans . |
| 20 | The action was brought against the police on the grounds that they failed to inform the prison authorities of the deceased 's suicidal tendencies . |
| 21 | After a three-month stoppage , engineers said last week that they expected to have the plant running again in a fortnight . |
| 22 | He says that they hoped to find the old church , but did n't , because they think it was destroyed when the docks were built . |
| 23 | ‘ He journeyed back to his own people , with many adventures along the way ; and when he was in Merkadale he told the Myrcans that they had to stop the killing , that they were only trying to pick an apple that was already in their hands . |
| 24 | The court stated that they had to take the plaintiff as they found him . |
| 25 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 26 | So fast , in fact , that they had to call a halt to it . |
| 27 | For most of us they were n't , but everyone had felt that they had to mark the day , and what else could we do ? |
| 28 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 29 | Well it so happened that two of the aircrewmen were burnt enough , not real serious , but burned enough that they had to use the ground spare from another squadron , they could n't go on the mission . |
| 30 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |