Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them added that they thought the TBC paid too little attention to the speeches of politicians : this was to be a frequent complaint . |
| 2 | Initially , about 150 young bloods expressed an interest and took part in rehearsals in the home counties but most of them withdrew when they realised the costs of hiring armour and equipment , of having gowns and costumes made for their ladies and attendants , and of transporting their retinues to Scotland . |
| 3 | Most of them broke when I peeled the real leaf off the chocolate which I 'd painted on — not quite up to Mum 's standards of patience and perfection , but who ever saw lots of perfect leaves ( not on a tree ) anyway . |
| 4 | Well if you see how many pallets they got and you see the trouble is the metal ones are so slippery they 're all the while dropping meat all over the floor . |
| 5 | They stopped when they reached the tramstop . |
| 6 | ‘ A film , ’ they shouted as he rolled the camera . |
| 7 | A weird island , they found as they walked the last half mile — after leaving the Mercedes in a car park with Dillon seated in the rear . |
| 8 | They did not , of course , mention that they fled because they knew the alternative would have been even less attractive , since at that time Philby was still in the West , having been publicly exonerated by Harold Macmillan . |
| 9 | If a home does not meet the minimum standard , the owner will be able to claim back all the money spent within the first year after purchase on raising it to that level , through , for example , home insulation , up to the amount of stamp duty they paid when they bought the property ( up to the maximum of £1000 ) . |
| 10 | They climbed until they reached the first pocket of snow , which lay in a long , dark slash on the mountain 's side . |
| 11 | Spittals made great play of tapping the microphones and checking that they worked before he introduced the superintendent . |
| 12 | They watched as he left the room then David turned to Rachel . |
| 13 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 14 | The aggressive marketing of seats to foreign cosmonauts on short duration Soyuz flights to the Mir space station in order to recoup some of the costs [ see pp. 37437 ; 37932 ; 38219 ] was also unpopular among many officials involved in the space programme ; they felt that it devalued the space programme at a time when the Zenit and Energia super boosters remained grounded with technical problems [ see p. 37797 ] and the first manned mission of the Soviet Buran shuttle had been postponed , at least to 1993 . |
| 15 | People formed their opinions and judgements in discussion with others whom they knew and who considered the implications for related aspects of their lives . |
| 16 | They laughed when they saw the tea , and demonstrated in dumb show how it should really be made . |
| 17 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 18 | They thought that we meant the insults and could n't initially figure out why the injured party would fall about laughing instead of going into a sulk . |
| 19 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 20 | Yes , yes , it , it hit , it hit us dreadfully yes , yes and you , you would 've , this er chappie who showed us slides , he showed us erm er you know the soup kitchens that we did erm they did and I think the Guilds ' women were involved with that you know . |
| 21 | They paused as they heard the silver tones of a bell and , peering through the trees , saw a procession of villagers crossing the fields . |
| 22 | and another thing was , we went to a crocodile farm , later on , and they said that they release the crocodiles into the river that we |
| 23 | I asked him what they said when he gave the order and he went red . |
| 24 | They said if you give the peasant the land it will give them the enthusiasm to work hard , they will increase their output . |
| 25 | They relaxed as they counted the money into seventeen bundles of a hundred and fifty thousand , and some of them left their fingerprints . |
| 26 | And on they travelled until they reached the rise in the land . |
| 27 | I am not sure who is more demoralised by that — the local people , who frequently complain that they do not get a quick response when they need help , or the local police , who attend the crime in an attempt to do the good job that they intended when they entered the police force , knowing that they are likely to be pulled in all directions to answer calls on a blue line that has been pulled far too thin by the Government 's demands . |
| 28 | Vitor slept for almost an hour and so did Thomas , but both of them awoke as they neared the outskirts of Lisbon , just in time , for now Ashley needed directions , and Vitor navigated them on to a bypass and north along minor roads . |
| 29 | Use a piece of paper to close the latches and keep them closed while you pull the needles back through the neck edge . |
| 30 | Indeed , he kept them closed as he opened the Gospels , and planted his long index finger blindly upon the page . |