Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words they needed to experience the ‘ sanctuary game ’ before they could cope with a ‘ breaking of sanctuary game ’ . |
| 2 | For two weeks they managed to evade the press . |
| 3 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 4 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 5 | For two days they battled to cross the Snake River , swollen by winter 's melted snows . |
| 6 | Is n't that , meant we , we say that I know time goes on but in years they took to pay the loan . |
| 7 | Over the years they had attended the same victuallers ' functions , and on every occasion Harcourt had kept very much to his own table . |
| 8 | For years they had eaten the shepherd 's pie , cauliflower cheese and Lancashire hot-pot that she had learned from her mother . |
| 9 | Mr Smith added : ‘ There was no enthusiasm for this Government , no admiration for their performance , no sense that after 13 years they had delivered the goods , fulfilled promises or proved themselves worthy of the trust of the nation . ’ |
| 10 | However , in order to show the ‘ historical ’ nature of this state of affairs they had to stress the existence of previous stages when private property was absent . |
| 11 | The plays they performed enacted the events of the Bible , from Creation to Doomsday , divided into separate units known as pageants . |
| 12 | In the years immediately following the war , manufacturers could sell all the machines they wanted using the old point-to-point wiring and had no need to trouble themselves with anything better . |
| 13 | By the time they had eaten up the crumbs they had forgotten the way out and in their hunger ate the insulation from the wiring . |
| 14 | It was designed in co-operation with our students to reflect the language skills they needed to address the bilingual context of their everyday lives . |
| 15 | An extradition treaty was signed with Rwanda on Aug. 16 aimed at improving effectiveness in combating crime ; the treaty excluded individuals wanted for political offences , and both governments reserved the right to refuse to surrender their own citizens , in which cases they agreed to prosecute the individuals themselves . |
| 16 | The Royal Dutch Navy made a detailed survey of the whole group of islands immediately after the eruption , and the maps they produced revealed the full extent of the effects of the explosions which had reverberated round so much of the world . |
| 17 | For more than four hours they battled to bring the blaze under control and stop dangerous fumes spreading across Cheshire . |
| 18 | For the most part , the activities they followed confirmed the earlier divisions , and what the Tudor and early Stuart gentry and yeomen did was to exploit much of the local potential more fully . |
| 19 | One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental . |
| 20 | The committee of inquiry found that many of the teachers they met held the view that Afro-Caribbean pupils ‘ inevitably caused difficulties ’ and were unlikely to achieve in academic terms , although they had high expectations of their potential in sport and the expressive arts ( Rampton , 1981 , p. 13 ) . |
| 21 | They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses . |
| 22 | This time when they said their good byes they arranged to meet the following morning and so things continued . |
| 23 | As young men the members of it were apprenticed to practised warriors , taught the profession of arms ; even as children they learned to follow the chase , to hunt boar and stag and wolf , not to mention all the lesser game of the forest ; they learned how to handle and appraise a hawk ; and in the evenings , in their father 's halls , or in the halls of other great lords to whom they had been sent to learn their profession , they listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess . |
| 24 | The second explanation was that as English Christians and as Protestants they had to fight the inroads of Popery wherever it occurred . |
| 25 | A few crumbs from the biscuits they had eaten the night before , pricked her skin . |