Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year later she and her son Samuel travelled to Bury St Edmunds , where they helped found a Congregational church . |
| 2 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 3 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 4 | The strategy they used involved an ingenious mixture of design and chance . |
| 5 | As an estimate of the drift of religious change and of what was acceptable to local people , the tactics they adopted proved a hideous disaster whose memories have scarred the country to the present day . |
| 6 | Nottinghamshire police have released a recording of a girl they believed called the Kingsmill Hospital at Sutton in Ashfield claiming she 'd had a baby . |
| 7 | Det Chief Insp George Brown , who is leading the murder hunt , said yesterday that members of the public had volunteered more than 300 names of people they believed matched the descriptions of the two attackers . |
| 8 | London Irish thought they 'd scored a try here … the ref tho rightly gave a knock on … and the cherry and whites rolled on to take the lead with a penalty from Martin Roberts … another penalty apiece made it six three to Gloucester at half-time … but they deserved more … the forwards were fired up but so too was the exiles defence which took a fair old hammering … the turning point came at the start of the second half when referee David Matthews awarded Gloucester a penalty try … |
| 9 | Bluebeard had been a private joke — an exclamation she had been unable to stifle as they 'd rounded the cliff at the head of the valley and she had got her first glimpse of the imposing turreted Castell Rocamar . |
| 10 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 11 | They 'd planned a trip to Warwick Castle , but she could n't get the time off . |
| 12 | She 'd thought a lot about this since they 'd planned the trip . |
| 13 | They 'd caused no end of problems for the nomes . |
| 14 | They 'd completed the tour of his spacious offices on the waterfront at Msida . |
| 15 | They 'd split up and about a year later , they 'd formed The Box and wanted to get a record out , and that 's how it started in January ‘ 83 . |
| 16 | In the small grease-laden kitchen the dishes they 'd eaten a meal off were in the sink . |
| 17 | Betty 's Betty has lived on they had roast beef for Christmas because they 'd eaten no red meat for so long |
| 18 | Rory talked fast and funnily , told them of the rat they 'd found in the caravan when they 'd come to it , recounted the horrors of a little restaurant in Buncrana where they 'd eaten the night before , and laughed at the way he and Mallachy had sailed past the beach a thousand times before deciding to boldly ask them for a drink . |
| 19 | Doubtful if he ever dented a heart ; more than likely he gave quite a number of hearts a new lift after they 'd imagined the ball was over for them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 22 | It was only two o'clock , they 'd seen the parade many times before , and Mike 's match would n't start before 4.15 . |
| 23 | They 'd seen the film that summer at Abbotsfield . |
| 24 | It only reminded her of how she and Trish had hooted with laughter when they 'd seen the engraved invitations that had gone out in three languages for this evening 's showing . |
| 25 | Police had hoped they 'd seen the last of the joyriding and the crowds who gather to see the stolen cars in action . |
| 26 | We ran this kind of course by asking the teachers at the beginning of the course to select some device they 'd like to make , that they 'd seen the circuit of in a in a school magazine school science review magazine , and then build that . |
| 27 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
| 28 | He 'd heard about St Manicus : they 'd done a project on him at school . |
| 29 | now the best of the timber he had Gottonam Peters , the builders that were , I mean they were building a lot then and I 'm going back now to the fifties and the sixties Gottonam Peters they 'd done a lot of building in Upton in Chester and erm , developments er expect building sort of thing and er , they used to buy in all the three by twos and four by threes that he could get , the good ones second hand |
| 30 | I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it . |