Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 2 | ‘ Last week , they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 tickets . |
| 3 | Last week they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 ’ Rangers ' statement |
| 4 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 5 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 6 | They argued at that time that pedestrian crossings of railways were perfectly safe . |
| 7 | They plunged from that area into another . |
| 8 | I think a as far as this group is concerned it will be up to each respective union , er I think of who they invited to that seminar . |
| 9 | They referred in that connection to their arguments with regard to the residence requirement . |
| 10 | In particular , they referred in that connection to the infringement of the rights conferred on the ‘ joint venture ’ vessels by article 168(4) of the Act of Accession 1985 , read in conjunction with Annex XII thereto . |
| 11 | Occupying their own apartments at the palace and giving little heed to the prevailing rumour that the king was unwell , neither she nor Joan was prepared for the tidings they received on that April afternoon . |
| 12 | Last year was the first time they played at that level , while Scotland , England and Wales have been involved in ‘ international friendlies ’ for a number of years . |
| 13 | They came to that conclusion on the grounds that it appeared to them to be a tenable meaning of the words and in accordance with what they thought to be the policy of the Act of 1914 as to jurisdiction . |
| 14 | Then the infant school the first class of the infants we had in a hut on Netteswell Road and then we went , they came from that hut there to the servant 's quarters of Mark Hall . |
| 15 | We were talking about budget decisions and after the microphones closed at the end of the programme they commented about that home in Blenheim Road in Kidlington , and to them it was n't healthy . |
| 16 | Mr. Spearing : Is the Leader of the House aware that those who are concerned about this matter are grateful to him for referring to the Select Committee 's report of two years ago and that we look forward to the Government implementing the intention that they stated at that time ? |
| 17 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 18 | After retirement they returned to that country to assist in the clinic in the embattled township of Alexandra , outside Johannesburg . |
| 19 | And as they fell upon that field , |
| 20 | ‘ I think that they got a bit carried away , ’ she laughs , ‘ I 'm not sure why they went for that word exactly . |
| 21 | They used to come here , yes , to this hotel to spend their last nights before they went to that bridge to hurl themselves off , sometimes in front of a train ; but now the line has gone and the track removed we do n't get so many nuts coming to end their days . |
| 22 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 23 | What they did to that boy was savage … . ’ |
| 24 | What they did to that girl proves that . |
| 25 | I suppose a lot of people would say he got his just desserts , they did in that family , because they all came back for , three hours later , and er , gained entry . |
| 26 | I 'd love to make a black version , in which some kids from South Central LA , who get bussed out to the Sand Fernando Valley ( affluent LA suburb ) , decide not to go to class and start tramping around Fernando doing what they did in that movie . |
| 27 | Yes they did , or they appeared in that light in the newspapers . |
| 28 | They tore down that street and into a main road that was crowded with people — fish and chip shops , take-aways , a disco , a supermarket , still open . |
| 29 | Yes Mr Chairman , I er , Mrs qui quite rightly said we can congratulate the Fire Service on the way they dealt with that plane crash , and er , we 're all sorry that it happened . |
| 30 | Here 's how they dealt with that sort of problem in Athens . |