Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Managers were proud to lead their staff into dispute and out into the streets over the years ; unfortunately , very many of them became the pit bull terriers of 1992 ’ . |
| 2 | One of them opened the truck door , doing it very slowly even for a human . |
| 3 | So where , as in Morgan , defendants claim that they believed the woman was consenting , because her husband ( who was present ) had told them that she enjoyed a struggle , their case is simply that they lacked the fault element required for the crime . |
| 4 | When they announced the pilot scheme in September 1990 , Nynex claimed that the service ‘ will eventually allow businesses to send , receive , store and retrieve any type of voice , data and video communication in any combination at any time . |
| 5 | They lowered the Air Force ensign , but as the flag of the Royal Ornance Corps was being raised in its place it fell off . |
| 6 | So the targets were set er and a new basis of working agreed to mutually with the management , on the understanding that er the existing piecework supplement , erm would be multiplied by three , and that meant that our colleagues were er able to earn something like er three and sixpence old money an hour , if indeed they met the target bonus . |
| 7 | ‘ It is bad enough losing their job but at least if they got the redundancy package that was available under Leyland-DAF , they would not be so badly off . |
| 8 | Okay , so they got the base line measurement , thirty five percent people use them , then they went to a variable ratio er token economy system . |
| 9 | So And then of course we had our own thrashing mill and we did our own thrashing but it was great fun down the glen when they got the thrashing mill in . |
| 10 | Prutec chief executive , Derek Allam told New Scientist : ‘ Although we saw Speywood as combining manufacturing on the one hand and R&D on the other , they got the balance wrong . ’ |
| 11 | But looked at a er at any ordinance survey map , they 'd have seen that they got the track plan wrong . |
| 12 | They pinned the Derry side back in their own half for long periods during the latter stages . |
| 13 | Having reached the conclusion that it was not clear whether the committee had fallen into error , they admitted the affidavit evidence which showed that the appeal committee had approached the matter correctly . |
| 14 | Both the armies of this pincer movement probably travelled quickly , without extensive commissary , relying on what they could pick up as they laid the land waste . |
| 15 | Yeah well they put a , during the war they laid the concrete road right a way from to Soham Fen , you see . |
| 16 | Dodging a motorized patrol sent out to cut them off , they made the crossing point and , as dawn broke , managed to shove and coax the truck up the steep track . |
| 17 | But because of their concern they made a direction at the same time as they made the care order . |
| 18 | If they made the bead taste bitter , by dipping it in alcohol , or quinine , or the pungent methylanthranilate , then the chick would peck once , show disgust by shaking its head vigorously and wiping its beak on the floor of its pen , and then back away , refusing to peck at a similar but dry bead offered any time from a few seconds to a few days subsequently . |
| 19 | It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east . |
| 20 | They asked the Parish Council , therefore , to approach Wyre Borough and ask for help with tasks such as mowing etc . |
| 21 | They passed the Moon Beach Hilton . |
| 22 | They passed the relief sentinel on his way down , then a knot of three men at the top of the rise who were playing at dice on the cut bole of a tree greeted them as they passed , then the path they were following entered a series of concentric earthworks , man-made mounds and ditches long since overtaken by the forest . |
| 23 | They passed the Paradise Corporation building . |
| 24 | And then as they passed the Odeon cinema the man lunged at him with his walking stick beating him over the head and arms . |
| 25 | They passed the viewing theatre . |
| 26 | but they , they passed the driving test first time and you know er , they could n't find out what it |
| 27 | They passed the corset shop , a butcher 's and a hardware store and stopped outside a library . |
| 28 | They checked the beach incline and its contours , looking for points where minor craft could beach . |
| 29 | Police say they 've already contacted several potential witnesses and this afternoon they recovered the getaway car , a Sierra Cosworth . |
| 30 | They led the title race by five points but it all went wrong in the spring championship — Servette lost their championship chance and manager Michel Renquin lost his job . |