Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 2 | They agreed to try to express any feelings of animosity at an early stage , rather than harbouring them until they exploded . |
| 3 | They seemed to have brought another world into the shop . |
| 4 | She grinned , recalling how they seemed to have spent most of the night making love — time and again . |
| 5 | Survivors thought their vehicles had been stopped for a security check ; the shock of what they 'd seen sent this young Palestinian into deep trauma . |
| 6 | They 'd gone to see another hill , which had been a Roman fort , covered in ferns now . |
| 7 | And then the timekeeper could mark down that they were present , they 'd gone to work that day you see ? |
| 8 | They fell into step , heading for the pub where they 'd arranged to meet some of the other girls prior to going on to the dance . |
| 9 | The Girls slept in cubicles with others , which seemed strange at first but the fun they generated helped to overcome any homesickness . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the Engineering Council ran into trouble with the fact that they did want to put some penal clauses in whereby engineers were responsible for a lot of their actions . |
| 11 | You need to get that , need to keep that down because if you do go to the hospital , and they did decide to take that out , they would ne d they would check your blood pressure and they would chase you . |
| 12 | CAPENHURST anglers did n't hook any whoppers , but they did manage to net enough tiddlers to ensure that the scales tipped in their favour in a challenge match against the Greyhound Angling Club from Chester . |
| 13 | They had stopped to get some fruit for her , and the stall-holder had insisted that it was a gift , refusing Michael 's money as if it was the norm to give his produce away for free . |
| 14 | And when , by good fortune , they had contrived to attend some glittering function Cynthia would delight in describing it , with especial reference to the people she had met , the important positions they occupied , and the deep respect in which they held her husband . |
| 15 | It was as if they had served to draw some morbid agent from her blood , as if they had been a great black and damson poultice to draw off her petulant humours and leave her as placid as a Madonna . |
| 16 | They had dreaded reaching this moment . |
| 17 | They had decided to label each case ‘ A , ’ ‘ B , ’ ‘ C , ’ or ‘ D ’ if necessary . |
| 18 | Was he too remembering the last time they had decided to keep each other warm ? |
| 19 | ‘ Here 's to your play , ’ she said when they had decided to have another brandy . |
| 20 | After three quarters of an hour the advocates were informed that they had decided to defer any statement of their reasons and their conclusion as to the appropriate orders for a period of approximately 10 days until 3 February 1992 . |
| 21 | Before they sailed from London they had undertaken to do all that they could under all the emergencies of the voyage . |
| 22 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 23 | There had never been any warmth between the women , but they had learnt to respect each other , and Sarah had become accomplished at running the house . |
| 24 | For most of the century they earned from 10 to 12s a week ( 50-60p ) , and could , it was often argued , have earned more if they had chosen to work more hours . |
| 25 | Previously , the 1969 and 1977 NOP surveys had broached this problem , with a question asking people whether they had considered using some form of credit but had not actually done so — and exploring their reasons . |
| 26 | And they had come to feel that pulse . |
| 27 | We thanked the WO officials for the time and trouble they had taken to discuss all these issues with us . |
| 28 | Some of them were so nasty that they had learned to disguise most symptoms of ill health from her . |
| 29 | The young couple were with her less than forty-eight hours , explaining they had promised to spend another thirty-six on the way back with John 's parents , who lived in Cheltenham . |
| 30 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |