Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For some teachers , problems arose when they sought to reconcile this expectation with their simultaneous sense of obligation to monitor , diagnose , assess and interact at the level of the individual child .
2 She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust .
3 They 'd taken this information back .
4 But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations .
5 They 'd picked this house without saying a word to him .
6 Cos they 'd had this meal .
7 No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out .
8 And they 'd got this eggshell in the bottom anyway and away it went .
9 Th th the final the final sort of sick joke was the fact that erm having having disposed of the fingers to the theatre , the hospital they 'd got this box of ice lollies so they proceeded then to give them to people !
10 And they 'd bought this mortgage and their repayment was something like about I du n no a hundred and eighty pound a month .
11 But there was a house on this repossession and it was sort of like just a sort of young couple and they 'd bought this house and it was like a two bedroom house and they 'd done up beautiful .
12 ‘ Well you know , the new Fender pickups , since they started remaking this guitar , are actually really good .
13 Together they decided to resolve this prejudice .
14 wondering why they chose to walk this way quietly
15 He became particularly interested in how they managed to combine this well-organized and criminal activity with an image of themselves as law-abiding citizens .
16 They managed to increase this share to almost 53 per cent of the personal sector 's liquid savings by the mid-1980s .
17 When they did employ this form it was , as at the Pantheon , a dome set upon circular walls which did not present great constructional problems ( 127 , 128 and 129 ) .
18 But between them , he told himself , they had made this nest comfortable .
19 I think they had to close this pub down you know I was listening to somebody talk about it cos there were drugs going on in it .
20 after fighting one another for months in the House of Commons , were ready to meet together under the roof of the Sovereign and sink their own differences for a common good and arrange as they had done this morning for a National Government to meet one of the gravest crises that the British Empire had yet been asked to face .
21 corinder and no more except on occasions with great the bowl never wanted washing , the boys polished , polished them with their spoons till they shone again and when they , when they had to form this operation , which never took very long , the bowl , they would sit staring at the copper with such eager eyes as if they could of devoured a of which it was composed .
22 All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time .
23 But the advisers subsequently admitted that they had based this estimate solely on figures supplied by British Telecom .
24 They had exploited this idea as doing more justice to the nature of life and movement and the discovery of truth than the older rationalist insistence on the ‘ law of non-contradiction ’ .
25 There were seven riders in the scratch group which started two minutes behind the 60-strong first group and they had eliminated this handicap by the second of five laps .
26 They had had this kind of conversation before and it always ended with her frustrated and him defiant .
27 But they had had this conversation so often and to such little purpose that he had long ago abandoned his part of the dialogue .
28 Many women in early second-wave feminist groups had belonged previously to leftist organisations where the prevailing style of discussion was hierarchical , forceful and oratorical ; they had found this offputting and were determined not to repeat it .
29 But I met a man on the road to the other village — I 've pursued them over the mountain from Keswick and you know the road divides two ways — and he swore they had come this way . ’
30 Anyway , they all sensed they had to make this work .
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