Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand there was the need to allow individual divergences from the hierarchy and to leave teachers some freedom to make their own contribution to the curriculum — a goal often repeated by all Secretaries of State as they sought to limit that freedom . |
| 2 | The Kurds have been and are being massacred , and are dying of neglect — our neglect — by the tens of thousands because they tried to escape that massacre , which we did nothing to prevent . |
| 3 | They seemed to take that kind of man to make him sergeant in the beginning after the Police Strike . |
| 4 | Mrs Blakey kept on asking them what they 'd done that day . |
| 5 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 6 | The one in particular I 'm referring to you will see we 'd all see the Son of Man , they they 'd recognised that reference to himself Son of Man , they 'd recognised that because that comes out of the Old Testament Book of Daniel does n't it , the Son of Man seated on the right hand of the Almighty coming with the clouds of heaven . |
| 7 | When they 'd heard that name , they knew they must take the place . |
| 8 | Heavens , how in creation was she to phone them to ask if they 'd got that part yet ? |
| 9 | The White armies would have beaten the Reds if they 'd got that cross . ’ |
| 10 | They arranged to come that way again next Sunday and then turned their horses eastwards for the long ride home . |
| 11 | We found evidence that the electors exercised a coherent choice amongst the media sources on offer ; and that they enjoyed exercising that choice . |
| 12 | They started drinking that evening and the man who 'd been fired started talking about life in Vietnam and posing as a veteran , and he said to the other one , ‘ The only place to go after hours is Tan Son Hut airport because they have marvellous chinese soup there ’ and they wanted to sober up . |
| 13 | But I do n't re think they realize what they were doing when they started making that flower border round , it 's going to be a never ending job . |
| 14 | That they managed to translate that attitude on to sparkling vinyl ( in the form of ‘ Michael ’ , ‘ Walter 's Trip ’ , ‘ Fashion Crisis Hits New York ’ et al ) was worthy enough . |
| 15 | They learned also that they had privilege to complement their responsibilities , and they learned to deny that privilege absolutely . |
| 16 | Yes , they had confirmed that feature within a week of the accident : |
| 17 | He said the brothers who had hurt Edouard had turned to culture , they had gone that afternoon to the Chagall museum . ’ |
| 18 | The words rang again in Sally-Anne 's head as they had done that afternoon in her aunt 's pretty drawing-room once Mrs Greville had gone . |
| 19 | The work they had done that morning was trifling and all they had to show for it was rough shelter and little comfort . |
| 20 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 21 | He leafed through the stack of notes that was the result of their questioning everyone in the area about what they had seen that morning . |
| 22 | All were BMS missionaries in Zaire until they had to leave that country . |
| 23 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 24 | After they had reached that decision Michael began to cry and would not be consoled . |
| 25 | Yes , erm well I I 've not done a wedding in a church actually yet , but then I 've only done three weddings , and , but the most interesting one was in a Brock in Glenelg and erm , that was quite exciting because the couple really thought about the service and they had selected that sight because it meant something to them , and involved the whole community and thereabout , and it was great ! |
| 26 | From a small vase , she took two of the daisies they had picked that afternoon and wound them strategically in Portia 's hair . |
| 27 | Slipping for years , pointed out tactfully by our friends and neighbours , pushed back into place with the bamboo boathook , they had chosen that day to fall . |
| 28 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 29 | Across the field the bloom of the cherry tree , under which they had sat that morning , hung sodden and spoiled . |
| 30 | They had to manufacture that part itself . |