Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if they did n't speak with tongues how did Simon know that they had received the Holy Spirit ? |
| 2 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 3 | The group later claimed that they had released the two men . |
| 4 | When they reached Aumery Park Farm , it was to discover that they had misjudged the time of their arrival . |
| 5 | We arrived at their home in Bruton , Somerset , only to find that they 'd got the date wrong and were n't prepared for us . |
| 6 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 7 | After hearing the evidence , the Tribunale Penale di Roma found that they had obtained the drugs from Hurley for the purpose of entrapping Italian nationals , among them Mario Cetera , the husband of Joan Schumacher , American heiress to the Prentice Hall publishing fortune . |
| 8 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 9 | They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money . |
| 10 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 11 | Besides performing refraction and examinations of the media of each eye all the optometrists reported that they had dilated the pupils of the prompted patients . |
| 12 | It follows that in my judgment the public law duties of the council were not discharged until they had completed the process of deciding on the suitable accommodation which they were obliged to secure for the plaintiff . |
| 13 | It was very , very difficult for them , they had to come and they had to find the , the actual crash , and it was an appalling position to get to , erm , the efficiency was splendid . |
| 14 | The two major electricity generators , PowerGen and National Power , declined to comment until they had assessed the white paper . |
| 15 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
| 16 | Labour leaders doubted whether they had convinced the population of the need to support Republican Spain : |
| 17 | His hair was white , as my daughters reported when they went to view the body before it was given to the Odonata . |
| 18 | Its eight-man crew also perished as they strived to rescue the Santampa 's crew . |
| 19 | His babe in arms would be no more responsive to Lloyd George 's leonine appearance than would an accompanying parakeet in a cage and if both , having seen him , were then carried around the National Gallery , it would be equally valid to claim that they had seen the works of art on display as well . |
| 20 | as if to confirm that they had rejected the old emphasis on local political organizations , the new studies gave themselves a new title . |
| 21 | Colin insists that they had expected the ensuing fuss . |
| 22 | On June 25 a number of Kurdish deputies announced that they had formed the Freedom and Labour Party ( OZEP ) . |
| 23 | A further step towards the creation of an Inuit homeland had been taken on April 27 when government and Inuit negotiators announced that they had initialled the Nunavut Political Accord . |
| 24 | At the beginning of March his council announced that they had set the charge at £400 . |
| 25 | ITV were dealt another body blow yesterday when rivals BBC announced that they had won the battle to screen Liverpool 's European Cup Winners ' Cup campaign next season . |
| 26 | On July 22 , the guerrillas announced that they had seized the town of Guazapa , situated to the north of San Salvador . |
| 27 | Early this year they announced that they had found the 17 keV neutrino again , with a far greater degree of sensitivity than any previous experiment . |
| 28 | The King 's good will did not survive Tyndale 's next book , The Practice of Prelates , which , in attacking Wolsey and the English clergy , argued that they had influenced the King in his decision to divorce Catherine of Aragon . |
| 29 | He says that they hoped to find the old church , but did n't , because they think it was destroyed when the docks were built . |
| 30 | For most of us they were n't , but everyone had felt that they had to mark the day , and what else could we do ? |