Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |
| 2 | As well as serving as informed sources themselves , they helped identify additional experts who were interviewed . |
| 3 | But by then their finances were already weakened by the takeover frenzy of the late 1980s and by their alliance with Robert Campeau , whom they helped buy Federated Stores in the United States . |
| 4 | Thus we can see how the social policies of Italian Fascism failed to meat its objective of creating a classless society enough they did change one nature of the state and politics . |
| 5 | They did n't preach to her , but they did love each other . |
| 6 | However , they did observe each other 's work . |
| 7 | Although they were not avowedly political , they did make political pronouncements and had a ‘ privilege of approaching the Throne ’ which , by the end of the nineteenth century , had lapsed through disuse . |
| 8 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 9 | Out there in peaceful Vancouver , going about our ordinary daily tasks , even though they did make sizeable contributions to the war effort , there were some of us who felt we were not doing enough , and some of us who wanted to get into ‘ the action ’ . |
| 10 | However , they did make important contributions to the education of local residents involved in the problems of vandalism , lack of recreational facilities and housing . |
| 11 | They looked like anatomies of death , they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves , they did eat dead carrions , happy where they could find them , yea , and one another soon after , insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves , and if they found a plot of water cress or shamrocks , there they flocked as to a feast for the time , yet not able long to continue therewithal , that in short space there were none almost left , and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast . |
| 12 | The fee for performing at Yeovilton was not high but they did offer free fuel . |
| 13 | they did offer some postcards yesterday . |
| 14 | They did exercise great influence . |
| 15 | One leading poverty campaigner says : ‘ With the previous reviews at least they did consult outside bodies . |
| 16 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
| 17 | Spending chiefs decided to delay their decision until then , although they did discuss more council spending as well as less . |
| 18 | This booklet was distributed just before met , so in fact er , paragraph two does say at the moment that in our new recommended programme there is n't , well in fact they did agree those recommendations . |
| 19 | It was easy for Draper and White to mock the church fathers for their naiveté on matters of natural philosophy , forgetting that they did have higher concerns — forgetting , too , that their naiveté often reflected the pagan wisdom of their day . |
| 20 | No , you picked up i I mean , I put that she recognized the gap between you know , the Russian ally to the Ger , I presume they did have Russian ally . |
| 21 | This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council . |
| 22 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 23 | But although earlier events can not be said to have caused the crisis , they did have some bearing on how it developed . |
| 24 | Taxes on wealth at death have declined in effectiveness , but they did have some impact ; just as important were crashes in land prices in the 1930s and liquidation of foreign investment to finance war . |
| 25 | ‘ As a matter of fact , they did have some news . ’ |
| 26 | Since most employment rights are dependent upon the possession of a record of continuous service with a single employer , most casual workers would fail to qualify for most of these rights even if they did have dependent employee status . |
| 27 | Cos the f the the the they did have pneumatic drilling machines quarries . |
| 28 | S so then the evidence is that they did know each other , begging what know exactly entails , but that 's not in dispute . |
| 29 | In the end , they did get some players and I have said I am pretty satisfied that the England players who went did n't go for money . |
| 30 | They did need more evidence . |