Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campaigners launched a direct offensive against contemporary medical theories which talked of the inevitability of the male sexual urge , arguing that they failed to take proper account of Darwinist insights . |
| 2 | The subject attracted no interest , and they failed to secure enough participants for the proposed 2-hour discussion . |
| 3 | But they gave up when they failed to obtain financial assistance from the British government . |
| 4 | League high-flyers Academicals lost 3-2 at Old Xaverians and Cabin came unstuck when they failed to convert two penalties in a 2-0 setback at St. Aloysius . |
| 5 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 6 | They failed to invest and invest efficiently on a large enough scale ; they failed to develop sufficient numbers of new products and they failed to raise productivity rapidly enough . |
| 7 | If they failed to consider any change of heart she may be tempted to make in the future , that is down to their own stupidity and naivete . |
| 8 | European heads of government from Moscow to Madrid showered telegrams of congratulation on Clinton , saying they expected to maintain good ties with Washington . |
| 9 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |
| 10 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 11 | They agreed to invite more men to the next meeting ( two attended the Harare workshop ) and to make a concerted effort to bring their concerns to the AACC leadership . |
| 12 | More important for the long-term programme of submission was the fact that they agreed to allow Christian missionaries into their lands . |
| 13 | President Zaid bin Sultan al-Nahayan ( the ruler of Abu Dhabi ) visited Oman on May 1-4 for talks with Oman 's ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said , during which they agreed to raise diplomatic representation between the two countries to ambassadorial level . |
| 14 | In a final communiqué they agreed to accelerate economic integration of their countries by the creation of a customs union by 1995 , and called for the strengthening of economic ties with their main trading partner , the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 15 | Second , the solution they sought had serious implications for civil liberties since sections would effectively deprive individuals of their liberty . |
| 16 | Adopting peasant dress and a peasant craft they sought to spread political consciousness with the help of revolutionary literature couched in peasant idiom . |
| 17 | For some teachers , problems arose when they sought to reconcile this expectation with their simultaneous sense of obligation to monitor , diagnose , assess and interact at the level of the individual child . |
| 18 | They helped move three-and-a-half tons of soil into the garden . |
| 19 | But by then their finances were already weakened by the takeover frenzy of the late 1980s and by their alliance with Robert Campeau , whom they helped buy Federated Stores in the United States . |
| 20 | Through their attack upon the social revolution , their politicization of the armed forces , their intolerance of opposition , and , most of all , their extensive use of brutal secret police methods via the SIM ( Military Investigation Service ) , they helped to convince many inhabitants of the Republican zone that fascist oppression could be little worse than that under which they were already living . |
| 21 | They promised to drive two riders through twelve hoops of blazing straw . |
| 22 | The police officer replied that they involved showing certain exhibits to Anderson and putting certain questions . |
| 23 | The men and women whom they encountered showed neither hostility towards their new enemies nor enthusiasm for a great patriotic war : |
| 24 | The fierce debate between these two tendencies pointed to the difficulties — and personal anguish — women often experienced when they tried to develop positive representations of their own sexuality . |
| 25 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |
| 26 | The working class met even stiffer resistance when they tried to secure political representation through the Chartist Movement . ’ |
| 27 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 28 | On 11 March 1772 , two weeks after the society had its first meeting on 23 February , they reported discharging five debtors from the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark — the biggest debt was £2 5s 8d — two from the Poultry Compter ( biggest debt £6 18s 5d ) ; one from the Kings Bench Prison ; five from the Borough Compter ; four from the Wood Street Compter ; three from Whitechapel Prison ; five from Newgate Prison ; and one from the New Gaol in Whitecross Street , Southwark . |
| 29 | In the course of their literature search , on 16 April Palmer found a 1978 paper by the three Soviets — B. Mamyrin , L. Khabarin and V. Yudenich — in which they reported finding excessive amounts of helium-3 in various metals . |
| 30 | He had seized the opportunity while they dined to make another copy of a revolutionary tract calling for an end to French rule . |