Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however much they scrubbed to erase the past , the slate could never be entirely cleansed . |
| 2 | Kate and John liked here idea so much they decided to sell the pelmets in their shop . |
| 3 | Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver . |
| 4 | Perhaps they helped persuade the British to follow a policy which kept them out of almost all the continental wars of the next quarter-century . |
| 5 | When parents or social workers went up to see us , obviously they had to see the staff , and the woman in charge was so nice , she had this big front — ‘ My girls , my girls ’ — it was totally a load of shit . |
| 6 | ‘ If only they 'd kept the old Dicky Doyle cover , with a few blank pages inside , it 'd still be going ’ |
| 7 | If only they had seen the correspondence that flowed to party chairmen from ’ Horrified of the Home Counties ’ when some of those Bills hit the deck ; one example was the correspondence from the lighthouse keepers association . |
| 8 | If only they had had the sense to invest in cleaning up our power stations , as the Germans have done , we would not watch electricity industry representatives and Ministers rushing around trying to find cheap fixes to meet their European obligations . |
| 9 | Only they seemed to understand the rules ; one of them turned round and stroked Nigel 's knee . |
| 10 | Of course , when one was a child many years ago winter could be an advantage , and if the storm was bad enough they had to close the school , which was wonderful . |
| 11 | So they had to abandon the Ferreira Hotel and most of their possessions . |
| 12 | So they had to take the bath completely out |
| 13 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 14 | So they proceeded to take the game to Rangers with their elegant style . |
| 15 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 16 | so they hoped to have the infra red in by then , yeah |
| 17 | So they decided to split the house in two . ’ |
| 18 | So they decided to build the warehouse themselves — which they managed to do for C$10,000 . |
| 19 | So they decided to build the camp there . |
| 20 | By eleven o'clock they had reached the cluster of buildings that formed Lightwater , and identified the Liveseys ' house . |
| 21 | They were moving nearer the house all the time and by one o'clock they had finished the field . |
| 22 | He immediately withdrew the patrol to a safe distance and together they began to clear the area for any other suspicious signs . |
| 23 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 24 | Together they had painted the town a decorous shade of palest pink , dancing at Le Bal Anglais , or was it Mimi Pinson , necking in other people 's rooms , walking the streets of Paris , hand in hand during one timeless and unforgettable spring . |
| 25 | There were other lords who also disliked me , and together they managed to persuade the King that I was a danger to Lilliput . |
| 26 | It was an easy task , the grave was shallow and soon they had scraped the dirt off the still-white coffin lid . |
| 27 | Soon they learned to recognise the treacherous brightness of grass that was too green and drew back before their feet began to make sucking noises in the black mud . |
| 28 | Er and his son helped him but I think in later on there were a little bit of disagreement with , with regards to who , how much work there was and , but anyway they 'd finished the bungalow and er it 's grand yes |
| 29 | And so when finally they had invaded the greatest city in the world , they built the portico at Euston to proclaim as a memorial their victory to posterity . |
| 30 | Finally they had to accept the dismissals . |