Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 23–4–1875 The attention of the Session was drawn to the desirability of having the children brought together on the Sabbath in a central place and they agreed to give the subject further consideration . |
| 2 | If the purpose of the march was to force the French to battle it failed ; Charles 's council debated whether to go on the offensive against Gaunt 's army , but in the event their belief in the military superiority of the English was still sufficiently strong to inhibit them from offering an open challenge , and they agreed to pursue the usual defensive tactics . |
| 3 | And then seagulls flew free , and a flock of sparrows , and they seemed to own the sky and not me . |
| 4 | They took some sandwiches and a bottle of cold tea , and they began to cut the long grass in Mr Wood 's biggest field . |
| 5 | By the end of April 1921 , the work was finished and they began to furnish the upstairs flat , mainly with items brought over from the house at Poplar , and to stock the shop with cameras , films and processing equipment . |
| 6 | Short 's position looked a little insecure but both players had only 10 minutes to make eight moves and they chose to repeat the position and agree a draw . |
| 7 | Alfie Common scored a penalty at Bramall Lane , home of Sheffield United , to give Middlesbrough their first away win for two years and they managed to avoid the drop to the Second Division . |
| 8 | Preston had more or less given up being a New Man since Carla — it was so difficult to get it right all the time and they kept moving the goalposts — but he still liked to make the right noises . |
| 9 | Hawkins collaborated with Fleischmann during the latter 's visits to Utah and they planned to extend the data samples to include rods of 8 mm up to 2 cm diameter . |
| 10 | Such cautionary tales lost nothing in the telling , and they served to elevate the power of the shrines of the saints , and also to protect and strengthen the right of asylum claimed for churches in Roman Law and in the Church canons . |
| 11 | He was showing his wife , a Wren in the war , around London landmarks , and they had reached the Cenotaph , where the flagstaffs were being touched up with gold paint for Armistice Day . |
| 12 | She started to walk across the yard , and he followed her ; and they had reached the house door before her decision came : ‘ I 'll take the cart down there later on ; if he 's put her to work she 's likely pacing The Strand , ’ she said . |
| 13 | A CIA man rushed out and roared at them angrily , and they had to put the fire out . |
| 14 | It was even more important to do this quickly , because they had no food and they had lost the horses . |
| 15 | At five o'clock three Corporation attendants with a policeman would turn everyone off the market ; and they had to take the cattle they had n't sold with them . |
| 16 | Muhammad al-Sharifi welcomed everyone present , and then explained the purpose of the gathering : the men from Zliten would arrive , and they had to decide the amount of compensation . |
| 17 | Some insisted that the reforms were naturally problematic and they had to support the Party in its efforts to modernise China . |
| 18 | Their point was 2½ miles farther west , and they had named the station Wainwright . |
| 19 | When last orders were called and they had to leave the pub , they went round to the fish and chip shop to see if it was open , but like the kinema , it too was closed . |
| 20 | A lot of them brought bacon and eggs but you had to cook it and they had to leave the pans and things clean when they left — so it was always a rush job and all policemen suffered from bad stomachs . |
| 21 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 22 | Some practical joker rang up : said there was a gas leak , and they had to evacuate the house . ’ |
| 23 | They were small handmade notes protesting against environmental pollution and complaining about how it endangered health — and they had thrown the security forces into a tizzy . |
| 24 | If anything had been brought in for you it had to be handed in at the screws ' table , and they had to sign the property book . |
| 25 | Joseph followed Suit with Dong , and when the commotion died own and they had bidden the Annamese boys goodnight , he and Paul stripped off their shirts and walked over to the bamboo skinning platform where Chuck was already back at work on his buffalo hide . |
| 26 | Stephen had suggested a lily pond and miniature fountain in the centre of the courtyard , and they had copied the one from Crystal Springs House on a grander scale . |
| 27 | Their act had been incredibly successful in the fifties and they had shared the bill with Judy Garland and Sammy Davis Jnr . |
| 28 | Derek had finished building the aviary by himself and they had bought the bird that very afternoon while I was safely away at school . |
| 29 | I conceive they acted judicially , because they had to determine the offence , and they had to apportion the punishment as well as the remedy . |
| 30 | It was very , very difficult for them , they had to come and they had to find the , the actual crash , and it was an appalling position to get to , erm , the efficiency was splendid . |