Example sentences of "they [vb past] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together they planned a comprehensive Bill to help disabled people . |
| 2 | They made a verbal decision to go earlier this month after a 48-0 home defeat by Newbridge , and no effort was made to persuade them to stay . |
| 3 | They made a spirited reply to earn an equaliser after 13 minutes when midfield player Neil Maddison turned a pass from Glenn Cockerill . |
| 4 | Less than a third agreed they came by their fees easily , while half felt they made a positive effort to support and understand clients and 59 per cent that they respond very positively to requests for help and advice ( although these two groups of responses should be seen in the light of that ‘ distress purchase ’ attitude , where lawyers are unlikely to be negative when a client suddenly calls up offering business ) . |
| 5 | THE FIRST round of the new National County Under-25s Two Fours competition sent Essex to Coton , on the outskirts of Cambridge , where they produced a great effort to win by three shots against Cambridgeshire . |
| 6 | They shared a common concern to explain the events that had changed the lives of themselves and their families , and came from an intellectual tradition that stressed causes and the analysis of social events at the macro level . |
| 7 | On the BBC 's side they retained a further option to wind up any contract after eight weeks if they elected to replace an artist , or if the show was cancelled . |
| 8 | And they defeated a Labour amendment to delay the Bill until after the Edinburgh summit by 319 votes to 313 a majority of just six for the Government . |
| 9 | Twenty years too late and they found a thousand ways to stop the rise of Hitler , it was the only way for them to keep sane , the survivors . |
| 10 | They used a two-stage process to test the APT . |
| 11 | For this they prepared a comparative study to show that the lockout was far more extensively used by German employers than by employers elsewhere ( Schregle , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | found that when eight-year-olds were asked to justify their judgements , they showed a strong tendency to refer to information about generative transmission , even in conditions where they were supplied only with information about temporal order . |
| 13 | To do this they arranged a movable slit to open for a wide ΔΕ when the photodiode array is operating and close up for a narrow ΔΕ for the spectral detector . |
| 14 | Faced by collapsing markets at home and in the moribund Comecon area , they began a desperate struggle to shed labour , improve products and find western partners ready to invest . |
| 15 | Eight thousand miners were known to be in Yanomami territory in 1989 , when they constructed a hundred airstrips to ferry in fuel , food and mining equipment . |
| 16 | And more decisively , they imposed a withholding tax to deter foreign residents from buying domestic deutschmark bonds . |
| 17 | That 's why I was promoted : they needed a good engineer to put in the technology . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose we should be flattered that Dinamo Tbilisi felt they needed a little help to get past us . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose we should be flattered that Dinamo Tbilisi felt they needed a little help to get past us . |
| 20 | As black communities became aware of the effect that society was having on their children , they forged a conscious approach to provide a buffer between racism and the self-esteem and self-worth of their children by raising the level of consciousness of the strengths of black traditions and family life . |
| 21 | They they put on a very good show and they brought a splendid bus to show |
| 22 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 23 | At that time , European scholars were fascinated by the technological and , as they saw them , moral triumphs of their age , and obsessed with the necessity for progress in all fields of human endeavour ; they felt a positive obligation to contemplate continually the long , hard road along which man had struggled in his search for perfection . |
| 24 | The castle took most of the honey and wax , but Ruari and Mairi naturally made sure they kept a fair bit to barter with their crofting neighbours for oats . |
| 25 | The party 's local Government spokesman and Cheltenham MP , Nigel Jones , said they represented a deliberate attempt to eliminate the gipsy way of life . |
| 26 | They sent a social worker to talk to me . |
| 27 | The burden inevitably fell mainly on the mothers and it seemed that their loneliness could at least be lessened if they had a regular opportunity to share their experiences . |
| 28 | Someone , a bit of a wag , said , ‘ Time they had a new stick to hit that there bell . ’ |
| 29 | And when my father spoke about He got a holi they got a holiday from the school , that day , because the teacher came to see this old body going out the glen that 's body and they walked out , so it 'd be two miles out and then maybe another three miles up the er Glen Shee kirk here , so they had a good bit to carry him . |
| 30 | They had a personal stake in improving their own incomes ( and they were aided in this by the growth of white-collar and public-sector trade unions ) , and they had a professional commitment to improve the lot of the clients of their services . |