Example sentences of "they [vb past] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 2 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 3 | Neither of them showed any inclination to do other than sit outside the café in the sunshine , and Oliver had shifted the conversation far away from the Durances and murder . |
| 4 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 5 | Their attention wandered and they lacked any discipline to learn . ’ |
| 6 | That 's when you know they got more crime committed round and Valley then , cos there was a lot more kids up there . |
| 7 | And they got the survey going , and they got enough people to volunteer to go round and interviewing people living in the flats , to get all the information that was required . |
| 8 | They planned each meeting to last an hour normally , and having gathered the information the team withdrew separately to ask themselves ‘ Why is this a problem now ? ’ |
| 9 | They agreed that assistance provided by the " Group of 24 " industrialized countries ( from which only Poland and Hungary currently benefited — see pp. 36802 ; 36961 ) , ought to be extended to Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Romania , and Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | They agreed that action to attract more foreign investment to the east should include a reliable legal framework to protect investment and private property , proper banking systems , rules on responsibility for environmental damage , and clear contract laws . |
| 11 | United though were their own worst enemies … they made enough chances to win but then went and missed them |
| 12 | United though were their own worst enemies … they made enough chances to win but then went and missed them |
| 13 | The audition which is the additional item includes moves at Policy and Resources Committee that they asked all committees to expose further reductions if possible to help close this gap of six hundred and seventy one thousand pounds . |
| 14 | yes , but I mean that 's land , that looks , people might think it means mountains , and when they read that , then they read that bit look |
| 15 | They stopped all trade entering Poland via Danzig and rerouted traffic through Gdynia . |
| 16 | L. Khabarin , B. Mamyrin and V. Yudenich had discovered in 1978 that when they heated several metals to drive out helium trapped within , the gases were almost entirely helium-3 rather than helium-4 ; normally helium-4 is much more abundant , the helium-3 being the rare form . |
| 17 | When Adam Peters and Ben Watkins changed their band 's name to Sunsonic they maintained this virtue to release a couple of refined , ambient , floating singles . |
| 18 | They found that air expelled from a syringe which contained leaflets of the wild potato disturbed 54 out of 99 aphids . |
| 19 | They found that performance improved as the amount of context increased , so that word position dependent n-gram probabilities gave better performance . |
| 20 | They found that horse did n't they ? |
| 21 | Companies in the survey were asked if they used any mechanisms to protect themselves against poaching by other businesses employing headhunters . |
| 22 | Is it a question of economics , because if they were more efficient , that is if they used less fuel to get a given mileage , is it a question of the companies involved being unwilling to put the money into the development costs , or would cars that are more efficient cost a lot more money to buy ? |
| 23 | They tried all day to stem the bleeding but failed , so decided to do an emergency op . |
| 24 | They estimated that stress costs a thousand pounds per employee per year to businesses . |
| 25 | However , they noted some deviations related to the presence of heavy minerals with densities considerably greater than quartz and also to mica flakes whose shapes differ from the spherical . |
| 26 | As they arrived more people wanted to know what was going on . |
| 27 | This was why , having secured the legal codification of serfdom in 1649 , they showed little anxiety to consolidate an institutional mouthpiece at the centre and the Zemsky sobor faded away . |
| 28 | They raised enough money to buy two acres of Belize rainforest each . |
| 29 | ‘ Many … had a complete ban and had been no-smoking from the start because they perceived that smoking did not fit in with their ethos — Boots , for example , or the Body Shop . ’ |
| 30 | Ms McCarthy was out for the evening with a friend , Stacey Gallacher , when they heard that acid house partygoers were meeting on Clapham Common . |