Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 2 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 3 | They started training in 1986 and initially spent 36 weeks on block-release at college learning basic engineering skills , fabrication , machining , fitting and basic electrical work . |
| 4 | In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance . |
| 5 | As soon as the opportunity presented itself , the likelihood was that they would show the same determination to seize the nobility 's land that they had displayed in 1905 . |
| 6 | They had separated in 1976 and Mrs Salperton had immediately embraced the privileges of old age . |
| 7 | But it seems probable that in the period 1183–5 the Counts of Toulouse were able to recover much of the territory they had lost in 1159 , above all Cahors and the Quercy . |
| 8 | England 's juniors , though , could at least console themselves that they had participated in one of the most enthralling matches played on English soil in recent years . |
| 9 | The inhabitants of Goritskaia volost' near Tver received fewer letters towards the end of 1926 than they had done in 1913 . |
| 10 | While Archbishop Reynolds and some other bishops and royal clerks colluded with the king , the lower clergy presented stout resistance , precisely as they had done in 1294 when they were also invited to pay for the tune played by the prelates . |
| 11 | Thirty prisoners at Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire refused to return to their cells until they had seen in 1992 . |
| 12 | The Communist Party felt that there was still much resentment against the Liberals in the Labour Party for the role they had played in 1931 . |
| 13 | Efforts to persuade the United Kingdom and the United States to rejoin UNESCO ( which they had left in 1985 and 1984 respectively — see pp. 33499-501 ) produced no positive results . |
| 14 | On the other hand , their absence from many of the wards they had fought in 1986 in places such as Cherwell , Portsmouth , Stevenage and Waveney directly contributed to Labour 's success . |
| 15 | Both Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists actually had fewer churches in 1901 than they had had in 1870 . |
| 16 | Sales of Knowlton 's and other pamphlets soared , selling in millions over the next few years when previously they had sold in tens of thousands ( Teitelbaum 1984 ) . |
| 17 | With the failure of these discussions on economic union the Nordic states were left with the limited form of cooperation to which they had agreed in 1946 , and also with Uniscan , a loose , consultative structure they had entered into , albeit reluctantly , with Britain under the latter 's urging , but one which would involve little more than a multilateral attempt at coordinating economic policies . |
| 18 | The rapid decline in noble land-holding continued , so that by 1914 the nobility owned less than a third of what they had owned in 1861 . |
| 19 | They had finished in 1815 , with Napoleon 's banishment to St Helena . |
| 20 | At the 1931 election the Labour Party retained only one in six of the seats they had won in 1929 . |