Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they 'd tipped the waste was it ? |
| 2 | She and her husband , Stephen , feel they 've only just begun to grieve , one we barn , where they 'd taken the girls in January last year . |
| 3 | Returning from one trip , where they had licensed the material of three groups to different American record labels , Branson and Draper were greeted at Heathrow airport by a girl brandishing a questionnaire : Where have you been ? |
| 4 | To make the point , he described a visit to a Toyota assembly line where they had developed the Kamba or Just in Time system . |
| 5 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 6 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Although they proposed retaining the City of London Boys ' School on the Embankment , all buildings behind , including the School of Music , would be swept away . |
| 15 | The more weak-willed of the defenders very often spent more time watching the native princes eating their banquets than they did watching the enemy lines . |
| 16 | It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again . |
| 17 | We ran this kind of course by asking the teachers at the beginning of the course to select some device they 'd like to make , that they 'd seen the circuit of in a in a school magazine school science review magazine , and then build that . |
| 18 | This er , your comment that you had a good look at the figures , severely confused the merchant bankers who are advising the Mirror group as they , they did n't feel that they 'd finalized the figures themselves . |
| 19 | forgetting that they 'd left the heating off . |
| 20 | Erm , also inclination of head towards the listener and erm erm , how did they feel that they 'd finished the erm , speaker 's intonation and a drop in volume of voice towards the end , and erm , also you 've got quite a full tags . |
| 21 | We , we had a letter from the International Secretarium in August or September I think saying that they 'd changed the law and all prisoners of a certain category should have been released and our prisoners were amongst , our prisoner was amongst that list , but erm , they did n't say that they have n't got any definite news whether he had been or not , about the release . |
| 22 | We arrived at their home in Bruton , Somerset , only to find that they 'd got the date wrong and were n't prepared for us . |
| 23 | But I thought erm , I did n't realise that they 'd got the |
| 24 | and after just that they kept sending the wrong pieces , I mean , like they , they sent another piece to replace it , and it was it was just as bad , |
| 25 | The problem , however , was that they kept blaming the tenants ' ’ lifestyle ’ for the dampness , refused to accept responsibility and spent unknown amounts of money treating the symptoms by using chemical washes to try and kill the fungus . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It appeared that they wished to have the system completed and in operation before paying further . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Byelarus and Ukraine had stated at the Dec. 21 meeting that they wished to sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |