Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were halted by a hail of arrows from the English , they failed to break the English positions and each advancing wave of cavalry bore down on those who had gone before , leading to utter confusion and heavy losses . |
| 2 | In the Indian Ocean basin they sought to rally the non-aligned states against existing blocs being activated or the composition and sphere , of responsibility of these blocs being broadened . |
| 3 | The objectives of PAR were rather too ambitious , for essentially they sought to review the major policies of government . |
| 4 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 5 | They tried to reconcile the different strengths , ranges and parity properties of the weak and electromagnetic interactions , and to convert the two separate theories into a unified theory . |
| 6 | The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life . |
| 7 | His way was blocked by the Ambassador and Culliman , talking politely about gardens as they came through' the french windows . |
| 8 | Well , alas , in that particular case , there was a panicky policy , because they delayed drawing the proper consequences from their data for too long . |
| 9 | And you know , you always you er give , gave your number you see and er course some people I believe had an a I believe in later days they 'd given the older numbers out again , I do n't know wh you know , because some people that 've joined since me have got an older number , so I do n't know whether they 've given the ol they were sort of long since run out , you know . |
| 10 | It only reminded her of how she and Trish had hooted with laughter when they 'd seen the engraved invitations that had gone out in three languages for this evening 's showing . |
| 11 | NASA scientists had thought they 'd solved the technical problems which have dogged the Space Agency . |
| 12 | His eyes were squeezed tight in agony , and he and the other three men locked in the shafts grunted loudly with exertion as they strove to get the heavy carts rolling again . |
| 13 | This transformation came about as companies expanded to take advantage of mass production methods and associated economies of scale and integration , and also as they strove to limit the competitive forces to which they were subject . |
| 14 | They began to institute the actual changes that were necessary : |
| 15 | As towns grew larger , they began to pollute the adjacent marshes and valley bottoms , which in turn developed ominous reputations for disease . |
| 16 | When they began to investigate the tiny houses , they found other bodies : men , women , children … . |
| 17 | For the most part , the activities they followed confirmed the earlier divisions , and what the Tudor and early Stuart gentry and yeomen did was to exploit much of the local potential more fully . |
| 18 | They needed to repair the crumbling walls of their draughty homes , too . |
| 19 | After a day or so , they started to inspect the half-buried ¾″ plastic pipes I had provided as caves . |
| 20 | They started to question the high exposures they ran every day with the Midland in the clearing system . |
| 21 | They started to question the high exposures they ran every day with the Midland in the clearing system |
| 22 | It was perhaps with this in mind that they decided to spread the only rewards that the Government was likely to confer on the architects for all their work across as wide a field as was possible . |
| 23 | When the Cordorys had finished landscaping their garden , they decided to add the finishing touches and brighten it up by designing and making their own garden furniture |
| 24 | and after just that they kept sending the wrong pieces , I mean , like they , they sent another piece to replace it , and it was it was just as bad , |
| 25 | At the time they appeared to offer the greatest opportunities for the cities , yet ten years afterwards they appear to reflect a lost age . |
| 26 | They liked seeing the old values reasserted . |
| 27 | The Spanish police also maintained that they had kept the suspected terrorists ' movements under close surveillance and maintained a constant flow of information on them to British officials in Gibraltar . |
| 28 | They had escaped the witch-hunt purges of Europe and had an entirely different significance in the lives of the Eastern peoples . |
| 29 | Over the years they had attended the same victuallers ' functions , and on every occasion Harcourt had kept very much to his own table . |
| 30 | Oh , he had found Maude a little happier , they had exchanged the usual pleasantries , but Cranston still sensed that she was hiding something . |