Example sentences of "[that] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | forgetting that they 'd left the heating off . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But I thought erm , I did n't realise that they 'd got the |
| 9 | 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 , |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | It appeared that they wished to have the system completed and in operation before paying further . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Byelarus and Ukraine had stated at the Dec. 21 meeting that they wished to sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The action was brought against the police on the grounds that they failed to inform the prison authorities of the deceased 's suicidal tendencies . |
| 19 | After a three-month stoppage , engineers said last week that they expected to have the plant running again in a fortnight . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In a third serving of a bankruptcy notice in 1911 , Wilson claimed not only that the Federation had inspired the plaintiff , a seaman called Nielsen , to take the action , but that they had moved the plaintiff from place to place so that he could not be found , making it impossible to discharge the union 's debt to him . |
| 22 | In the manner which had stunned Cecil Roberts and the audience at the Park Lane Hotel , he denounced his opponents , shouting at them that they had turned the election into a thoroughly dirty fight . |
| 23 | Cardiff noticed that they had turned the microphone towards the floor now , but the clicking from the metal container had stopped . |
| 24 | In sentencing the three , Manhattan Superior Court Justice Thomas B. Galligan stated that they had turned the park into a " torture chamber " on the night in question , and that " the intensity of the violence that occurred … is something no rational mind can explain " . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | They said that they had asked the Treasury to give " careful consideration " to the various fiscal measures recommended by the committee . |
| 27 | ‘ When we asked how they knew we were coming , they would solemnly say that they had seen the Little People lighting candles in all the windows . |
| 28 | Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR ’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position . |
| 29 | His babe in arms would be no more responsive to Lloyd George 's leonine appearance than would an accompanying parakeet in a cage and if both , having seen him , were then carried around the National Gallery , it would be equally valid to claim that they had seen the works of art on display as well . |
| 30 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |