Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only had to drop a wizened bean over their shoulders for a plant to spurt from the ground and rain pods at them . |
| 2 | They obviously enjoyed playing a game with each other . |
| 3 | The trio , who were linked on security force computers to 32 murders , were killed as they apparently tried to murder a retired UDR man on a remote Co Tyrone road . |
| 4 | However , in second-half Wanderers raised their game and at the end of the day they just failed to get a point . |
| 5 | And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way . |
| 6 | Our old mates THE ORB popped round to Vibes central control the other day for tea and spacecakes and a quick intergalactic natter , and somehow they just happened to leave a whole box of ORB window stickers in the VIBES record cupboard — and would you believe it just as they were about to leave we could n't find the key ? |
| 7 | Most of the East Germans surging across said they just wanted to have a look at West Berlin , have a beer in a bar , or see a friend . |
| 8 | They just stood watching a fireworks display across the bridge at the Expo . |
| 9 | They have sullied the good name of their country ; they desperately wanted to make an impression on Europe and they have — in the most unexpected way . |
| 10 | However , after an initial 5p rise they still managed to fall a touch below today 's opening 270p on further consideration of the results . |
| 11 | In between these duties they still managed to have a lighter side , arranging dances at the Institute which became popular throughout the war , and their concert party entertained many during those dark days . |
| 12 | But they still did do a certain amount of er the stock in trade course the bins for g for transporting stuff in and all like that . |
| 13 | Bravely they still tried to send a regular allowance home . |
| 14 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 15 | ‘ As long as Drexel was there , ’ says Mr Sind , ‘ they always managed to find a way to struggle from debt-payment date to debt-payment date . ’ |
| 16 | They always did taste a bit funny you know , did n't they ? |
| 17 | If they ever wanted to have a moan about anything I did wrong , like using the bathroom too often , they used to tell Lesley to tell me . |
| 18 | I christened the new residents of the flat above that just in case they ever decided to form a folk-singing duet and needed a stage name . |
| 19 | Thus while the committees hoped their work would act as an antidote to the apparent tendency ‘ to reduce workpeople to the mental condition of animated machines ’ , they also sought to encourage an all-round improvement in efficiency and a training designed to develop ‘ the habit of regular industry … a healthy growth in mind and body ’ , the inculcation of thrift , and the ever popular ‘ discipline ’ . |
| 20 | Culturally , the Palestinian Jews had to face the increasing differentiation of the diaspora , both in Mesopotamia and in Egypt ; they also had to run a state efficiently within a Hellenistic — milieu . |
| 21 | They also agreed to create a commission of experts to tackle problems arising from the different trade policies adopted by Latin American and EC countries . |
| 22 | They also agreed to pursue a common external trade policy towards Eastern Europe and the Third World , and to take joint action on scientific , social and environmental issues . |
| 23 | They also refused to support a government which relied on Russian former communists . |
| 24 | In contrast , female domestic servants led isolated work lives prior to marriage and their marriages usually involved a traditional sexual division of labour ; but they also tended to enjoy a joint role relationship with their husbands in the sense that the husband spent his non-working hours with his wife and children , and they too tended to be successful in limiting the size of their families . |
| 25 | Following from Richard and Jenny erm , they both had to attend a meeting in Dublin but it 's with absolutely no other alternative . |
| 26 | They now proceeded to criticize a number of left-wing Labour councils for their management of particular policies . |
| 27 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
| 28 | The Carolingian minuscules in which they typically appeared represented a hand developed in Europe . |
| 29 | they really did have a proper scheme and you were paid a sort of reasonable wage |
| 30 | If they really wanted to find a motive for the murder , they should grill Mrs Sweet . |