Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Historically , it originated in the recognition by the early scribes in the twelfth–fourteenth centuries that readers needed visual clues to tell the difference between words that otherwise would look identical ; and one of the ways they tried to show this was by the addition of the e . |
| 4 | She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust . |
| 5 | They received form this charming man not only a handsome cheque , but the gift of a copy of his own book ‘ Modern First Editions – their value to collectors ’ , inscribed with the words ‘ For Christian Aid . |
| 6 | them and they came had this little pancakes were dishes of er there was a dish of the sauce that |
| 7 | And they were not having anybody in the mine , with a watch , who could let people know exactly what the time was , and in other words , create a situation where the men might go home before they 'd completed this particular task . |
| 8 | Once they 'd realized this , the villagers came to her often with their problems . |
| 9 | I had the nasty feeling they 'd done this before . |
| 10 | They 'd heard this awful racket you see and they 'd thought it was me coming and falling or something on the stairs . |
| 11 | After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war . |
| 12 | After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war . |
| 13 | They 'd taken this information back . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They 'd picked this house without saying a word to him . |
| 16 | Cos they 'd had this meal . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And they 'd got this eggshell in the bottom anyway and away it went . |
| 19 | I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | They 'd bought this enormous house , Four Winds , which used to be the local manor or something . |
| 22 | And they 'd bought this mortgage and their repayment was something like about I du n no a hundred and eighty pound a month . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Well you know , the new Fender pickups , since they started remaking this guitar , are actually really good . |
| 25 | Together they decided to resolve this prejudice . |
| 26 | They also wanted some data at higher current densities , , but were nervous that increasing the amount of current could lead to another disaster — the vaporised palladium block still haunted Fleischmann — so they decided to achieve this by keeping the total currents approximately unchanged but using rods that were only 1.25 cm long instead of 10 cm , the effect being to increase the current density eightfold . |
| 27 | wondering why they chose to walk this way quietly |
| 28 | And we appreciate how honoured we are to be among the select few who they chose to share this very special occasion with them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They managed to increase this share to almost 53 per cent of the personal sector 's liquid savings by the mid-1980s . |