Example sentences of "[vb past] they [adv] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 2 | But he said he reckoned they probably shot a bit wide , and anyway the officers would see that they tried , and it was better to be shot by the other side rather than your own . |
| 3 | As the show opened they even enjoyed a beer with the first day crowds . |
| 4 | The bats just decided to smash me around the island , and for every bag of boundaries they hit they then made a mistake . |
| 5 | But even if American anti-imperialism were diluted in practice , the British knew they still faced an uphill struggle after the war to regain the degree of international power and influence which they believed was rightly theirs . |
| 6 | " The exhibitors thought they just wanted a big shed , " Bizat phlegmatically recalls , " and their view was " all we want people to see is our stands , we do n't want them looking anywhere else " , so they disliked the idea ofa setting that was attractive in itself But the then architect , Dr Peter Smith , wanted to bring the Palace back to its previous glory . |
| 7 | And despite the AIDS menace 20 per cent of the students questioned by Cosmopolitan magazine said they never used a condom . |
| 8 | Killinchy Club spokesman George McCann said they originally wanted a date later in the year . |