Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last week , they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 tickets . |
| 2 | Last week they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 ’ Rangers ' statement |
| 3 | gives him an overdraft facility of so much money enable him to work when he moved , and they reneged on it ! |
| 4 | But whatever they assimilated from other cultures and traditions , they applied in a specifically Judaic context . |
| 5 | They whispered to each other . |
| 6 | They whispered to each other that Tess was sure to marry that handsome gentleman . |
| 7 | She had spurned the hypocritical cant beloved of politicians and addressed herself directly to the people , showing how well she knew them , telling them what they whispered in their hearts but dared not speak , calling their bluff ! |
| 8 | The old by-streets now swarmed with passengers and vehicles of every kind ; the new streets that had stopped disheartened in the mud and wagon-ruts , formed towns within themselves , originating wholesome comforts and conveniences belonging to themselves , and never tried nor thought of until they sprung into existence . |
| 9 | Utterly absorbed with their cooking , none of the Halflings had noticed the Wolf Riders as they sprung from the mountain valley , neatly enveloping the camp and driving a wedge between them and the rest of the Emperor 's army . |
| 10 | While she sang a couple of blues tunes , and scatted on a version of Dizzy Gillespie 's Hot House which they inserted into What is This Thing Called Love , neither is really her style . |
| 11 | What did you think they lacked at the time ? |
| 12 | It has been the deliberate policy of the Supplement to give these the prominence they lacked during the period when the OED was being edited . |
| 13 | But both Mr Cook and Mr Clarke also seemed determined to make up in duration what they lacked in originality . |
| 14 | They were often designed by engineers , but what they lacked in architectural distinction , they gained in homely practicality and in the opportunities they afforded to local carpenters to display their skills in beautifully carved barge boarding and valances . |
| 15 | Many rural taxpayers at £40 and upwards on goods were yeomen who made up in substance what they lacked in status . |
| 16 | They pierced into her sleep like some guttural -voiced metal beast , tearing at her ; breathing a terror . |
| 17 | The response of the Governors was swift : they announced on 14th March 1975 that the School would go " Independent " and they launched The Stopfordian Trust to provide the sort of bursaries which would be required . |
| 18 | They announced at Paris their intention to extend the range from 35ft ( 10.7m ) to 52ft ( 15.9m ) . |
| 19 | Now , belatedly , they tried to take them by force , an exercise in which they failed despite the loss of tens of thousands of irreplaceable soldiers . |
| 20 | At all events , he attempted comebacks twice , in 1982 and 1984 ; they failed to ‘ take ’ . |
| 21 | This may be explained , at least in part , by the greater antigen binding capacity of the solid phase , and might explain why some of the antibodies showed reactivity with antigens bound to nitrocellulose which they failed to recognised by ELISA . |
| 22 | If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky . |
| 23 | They failed on both counts . |
| 24 | The party of low taxes , the party of high taxes they failed on that . |
| 25 | They shared with the foresters a general responsibility for the safe keeping of vert and venison , the sheriff could seize their lands if they failed in their duty . |
| 26 | Since Everest he has concentrated on small , alpine style trips , climbing Rimo II in 1988 with Nick Kekus , and Makalu II with Victor Saunders in 1989 , although they failed in their main objective of traversing Makalu . |
| 27 | Here they attempted to persuade consumers not to install additional appliances which would overload the mains : where they failed in this , breakdowns inevitably followed . |
| 28 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 29 | One prime minister was assassinated by the Brothers ; they failed in an attempt on Nasser himself . |
| 30 | Today rebels attempted to persuade one hundred and forty workers who 'd not yet signed the agreement to battle on , but they failed in their bid to stop them from signing the deal . |