Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DERRY City recorded their first win in four competitive games when they defeated newly promoted Monaghan United at the Brandywell last night to qualify for a quarter-final League Cup clash with Waterford United . |
| 2 | Childebert I and Chlothar I ensured that Chlodomer 's sons did not succeed their father , and they tried hard to exclude Theudebert I from the throne . |
| 3 | Thorpe B are already relegated , but they played well to hold Jaywick A to a draw , Tony Bull taking a maximum three , and Robin Rush chipping in with a good win over Doug Green . |
| 4 | They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend . |
| 5 | The penalty seemed pretty clear-cut and it was a stroke of luck that they 'd just substituted Fashanu as he is their usual penalty taker ( pretty reliable from what I can recall ) . |
| 6 | They poured in to watch Will Carling and his men preparing for the big match … in Cardiff its England against Wales … at Gloucester they were only warming up … |
| 7 | From Rome they flew down to join Britannia in Sicily for the remainder of the tour , where the Prince 's artist friend John Ward was waiting . |
| 8 | They decided not to warn Terry when they wrote to him , and later Tony said quietly to Sarah , ‘ I was n't criticising Terry when I said that , Sar . |
| 9 | They went indoors to find Donald splitting wood to start the fire . |
| 10 | The following morning ( Wednesday , December 6th ) they went together to see Balfour , still in his sickroom . |
| 11 | The talk on Tyneside yesterday was whether United got it right when they chose not to keep Jan Eriksson , the Sweden and Norrkoping defender who headed the opening goal of the European Championships on Wednesday night . |
| 12 | They looked up to find Sister Cooney standing there . |
| 13 | They did not speak Jove 's language ; they went to war clad only in shields and were , as Plato sternly put it , ‘ given to excess in drink . ’ |
| 14 | Some scenes were shot in Cambridge , but they did not involve Crawford . |
| 15 | They talked about a project together with director Hal Ashby , who was trying to raise finance for a film based upon a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( which Nicholson later made with Jessica Lange ) , but MGM pulled out because they did not think Michelle Phillips was a big enough name , not apparently appreciating that she was once a starring member of a world-famous singing quartet . |
| 16 | In order to set a baseline her parents set aside an hour each evening for one week during which they did not tell Lindsay to stop , but recorded the duration of each nose picking session and the frequency . |
| 17 | The variations within that calculation are not extreme — perhaps an extra half-hour at breakfast ; perhaps they did not leave Aberdeen precisely ( Boswell says ‘ about eight in the morning ’ ) , perhaps the road wound around to make thirty miles . |
| 18 | Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine warned rebels they would be left with a lame duck administration if they did not ratify Maastricht . |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal in Fritschy [ 1985 ] 31 July LEXIS ( not reported in [ 1985 ] Crim LR 745 on this point ) said that they did not understand Lord Roskill 's comment , but anyway the accused was not guilty because he had done nothing in England which had not been expressly authorised by the victim when he collected krugerrands in England . |
| 20 | Today the judge dismissed reports from two psychiatrists who said they did not believe Bourgois was dangerous . |
| 21 | Many pioneers of women 's education made it quite clear that they did not accept Emily Davies ' view that girls might be trained in the same way as boys , and argued that they should be given an opportunity , by way of , for example , domestic science classes , to prepare for the lives a majority of them would lead as wives and mothers . |
| 22 | The doubts of these two people were entirely different , but they were both doubting God for the same reason : they did not know God as he really is . |
| 23 | , writes : AMERICAN friends saw the marker stone of the centre of England in Warwickshire and confessed they did not know U.S.A. 's centre . |
| 24 | A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee . |
| 25 | They did not enjoy Aintree two years ago and did not think that Ghofar ( who was unplaced to Mr Frisk ) enjoyed himself much either . |
| 26 | They did not have Ælfheah 's relics , and no doubt lacked Christ Church 's enthusiasm for them . |
| 27 | Yet the last in the little series of stories about the ark would have recalled to their minds the story of chapter 4 , and would have reminded them that though they were irrevocably , for better for worse , for richer for poorer , the people of God , they did not have God in their pocket , and could never keep him there . |
| 28 | Her friends on the bridge saw the boat , but they did not see Anne under the tree . |
| 29 | It is important , however , to remember that the studies , whilst representing a considerable achievement , were not comprehensive on two counts : first , they did not include Scotland or Ireland ; second , the principal informants were field social workers and not residential care staff ( DHSS , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | Supper Club members now reflect with satisfaction that they did not invite Robin Cook , Smith 's campaign manager , to their dinners . |