Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some doctors have even put their patients through operations they did n't need . |
| 2 | The ISD programming team also did their bit by charging colleagues in ISD for calls they made to the Helpdesk , raising around £2OO . |
| 3 | In serial recall for signs they demonstrated primacy and recency effects in the recall curves and indicated that substitution errors made by deaf subjects coincided with sign-confusable items . |
| 4 | Our they 'll want to forget that the Tories programme and policies , they lied about taxes they promised not to extend V A T they lied about protecting the value of pensions well I hope the people who get the eight four P and the one twenty , the one 's that the old dears will remember that because that 's what they will be getting . |
| 5 | About 1820 , possibly due to the persuasion and influence of William Gilkison , Galt became the London agent for people in Upper Canada who were trying to obtain compensation from the British Government for losses they had sustained in the 1812/13 war with the U.S.A. He submitted a plan to the Government which led to the creation of the Canada Company , and , as its first Secretary , he was sent to Canada to acquire land . |
| 6 | They did not turn up for sessions they considered boring and did not meet their needs . |
| 7 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 8 | For months they had had difficulty in reconciling the accounts until they realized the extent of shoplifting . |
| 9 | For solutions they thought that London could be considered from three points of view : as a community — where people live , work and play ; as a metropolis — the seat of Government and a great cultural and commercial centre ; and as a machine — of locomotion . |
| 10 | In 18 months of operations they lost a total of 983 aircrew , 725 of whom were killed or presumed dead . |
| 11 | ( 8 ) Audiotext Harvard OTC ) " They are expanding their telephone lines dramatically , as they are getting several times the number of calls they had anticipated . " |
| 12 | For a couple of minutes they made sickbed small talk while Maxim tried to decide just how Blagg was . |
| 13 | The bearer turned left along a line of houses they had just come out of . |
| 14 | So they would actually do the shopping for the material , and then they would go away and look at pattern books and decide what sort of patterns they wanted , what sort of dress it was that they wanted to make . |
| 15 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 16 | Authors had to economize in the number of illustrations they used , and readers had to get into the habit of turning a number of pages to find a relevant picture . |
| 17 | They were armed with thousands and thousands of signatures they had collected from their parishes and their local communities in the weeks leading up to the lobby . |
| 18 | And for a couple of hours they had talked . |
| 19 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 20 | Both men had pocketed their torches to allow them a better grip on their shotguns , and a couple of times they interrupted their progress to stand straining their ears into the whispering darkness around them for any sound of the fearsome dogs . |
| 21 | The number of times they 'd heard that . |
| 22 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 23 | As we listen to these phrases that rolled so easily off the tongue , and which have also rolled on down through history to our own time , we must make a special effort to remember very carefully just who the men were who engineered the Garotter 's Act — what kind of men they were ; what kind of times they lived in ; and what forces helped to shape their upright moral certitude . |
| 24 | A recent survey in West Surrey and North East Hampshire asked district nurses how many clients they had with ulcerated limbs ; the number of times they visited each patient ; and the types of treatment given for a specific month . |
| 25 | concession to improve communication was to increase the number of times they rang City Office to enquire if ‘ anything was going on : . |
| 26 | Ah lovely I saw saw them live a couple of times they appeared on T V shows as well . |
| 27 | Despite a reputation for excellent work on the relatively small number of accounts they handled , they had no international reputation and certainly would n't be quoted among the top twenty of British advertising agencies as far as billings were concerned . |
| 28 | The Committee concluded that the broadcasters could legitimately claim to have made a praiseworthy attempt to deliver the sort of programmes they had promised . |
| 29 | National associations , like the British Boxing Board of Control , were fed up with the mobsters — so fed up that they were willing to pay an affiliation fee to one or both of these new bodies to gain the right to submit the names of boxers they licensed for title fights sanctioned by the WBA and the WBC . |
| 30 | The National Pawnbrokers Association kept a register of operators they approved . |