Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | An overlay of interactive colouring them followed to bring an element of form , though intentionally avoiding too detailed a degree of modelling . |
| 2 | In 1934 the British members of the NATPS took another step along this road when , after talking with officials of America 's National Association of Creditmen , they planned to form an ‘ Institute of Creditmen ’ , a body of individuals , which came into being in April 1939 based in London but with local societies all over Britain . |
| 3 | They agreed to develop an economic integration plan proposed by five Central American presidents in the Antigua Declaration of June 1990 [ see p. 37526 ] . |
| 4 | Secondly , on the issue of the precedents for making a defendant prove his defence in the way in which the Bill requires , I argue that every year — certainly since I have been in the House — we have created numerous new offences which have defences attached to them , usually for those who can show that they acted reasonably or that they used due diligence to ensure that they avoided committing an offence . |
| 5 | On April 13 the main religious parties rejected the proposed Islamic Law bills , saying that they sought to perpetuate an interest-based economy . |
| 6 | The strategy they used involved an ingenious mixture of design and chance . |
| 7 | They tried to force an amendment , to extend the Sunday closing time from two to three p.m . |
| 8 | When they tried to make an arrest , the police were subject to vicious abuse and assault . |
| 9 | The declining fortunes of both racing and bookmaking came into direct collision when they tried to determine an appropriate levy for the next fiscal year . |
| 10 | The towns they visited exuded an atmosphere of sinister disquiet ; very different was the Dominican monastery they discovered at Corbara . |
| 11 | Her mouth was a red gash in her powdered face and when in Act Two she told her husband that the degenerate Martin had never loved her , never ever , even though they 'd conducted an affair , real tears trickled from her tragic eyes . |
| 12 | Once again they 'd reached an impasse , but in truth it really did n't matter . |
| 13 | There they 'd lit a fire and cooked the rice , but before starting to eat they 'd made an offering to Ban Bhāi , god of the forest , asking permission to plunder his lands . |
| 14 | Over a delicious meal of freshwater crayfish in lime butter , and a light-as-air mango soufflé , they 'd held an impeccably detached , wonderfully calm conversation ranging from Caribbean history to ethnic crafts and design , and discovered common ground on half a dozen other topics including a penchant for the Post-Impressionists , an affinity with the work and designs of William Morris , and a liking for cricket . |
| 15 | Some of them were in a terrible state because they 'd had an electric shock from the lightning . |
| 16 | But todsay Cranog Jones told the court he 'd only gone into the garage to de-tune her car after they 'd had an argument . |
| 17 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 18 | And I remember hearing a story , er erm it was just they 'd got an old farmer he had a field of hay , just ready to cart and just as they were getting the horses , it came down to rain and they were all sheltering in the barn , and the said , More rain , more rest . |
| 19 | Some of the secondary girls considered such goings on beneath their dignity but it was n't long before they began to take an interest and help out in the " Ox-farm " . |
| 20 | But when they began to take an interpretive attitude toward their conventional practices , the situation became much more complicated . |
| 21 | The following year Law told his audience that Council candidates won School Board elections in Stratford-on-Avon and Sutton Coldfield while in Cardiff they worked to return an ‘ unsectarian ’ majority . |
| 22 | But missionaries constantly encountered the idea of an interaction between supernatural power and material prosperity , and the complexity of this idea only served to increase the sensitivity which they needed to make an impact on the discussion . |
| 23 | Then , fearful of things going wrong — their greatest dread was that they would be late and that the ship would sail without them — they decided to allow an extra twenty-four hours . |
| 24 | But then what happened it was so successful for and I think got so greedy on it they decided to go an American |
| 25 | They decided to offer an alternative which , whilst concerned with collective efforts to improve social and economic conditions , would provide an education offering a real sense of achievement within an alternative curriculum linking local concerns with wider social and economic issues , hoping to provide an educational arm for the working class . |
| 26 | When the directors of the London and North Western Railway organised their company in the last century they decided to build an engineering works , for locomotives and rolling stock , near the centre of their network , and this point was in the countryside at Crewe . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , they did conclude an Agreement on 15 June 1905 to supply electric current to the Company 's Penge tramways at 2 pence per unit from Churchfields Road Power Station . |
| 28 | But they did carry an extra two-gallon can , and had to resort to it three times . |
| 29 | Erm , as I said F T volumes are flat but er , they , they , they did achieve an increase in the yield erm , but forward bookings are much better at the F T and October looks rather better , so I think advertisement volumes are , are on the increase . |
| 30 | I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly . |