Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coordinator Rebecca Johnson says they failed to re-establish contact with the vessel , which had been protesting against the resumption of nuclear testing on the island . |
| 2 | The granting of an individual right of petition to the European Commission and Court of Human Rights permitted individuals complaining of breach of the protection of civil rights in the Convention to go to these institutions if they failed to obtain redress through the UK courts . |
| 3 | There is a further submission that they failed to have regard to the mother changing her mind about having R. adopted . |
| 4 | They tried to ascertain news of the tsar and his family , but to no avail . |
| 5 | They had n't known her well at all , but for some inexplicable reason they seemed to take charge of the situation and to deal with it in a totally intuitive way . |
| 6 | After the interval , with the wind and slope in the home team 's favour , they began to put pressure on the Haslemere defence and scored two well-taken goals in a 15-minute spell . |
| 7 | They remained , therefore , on the outskirts of the town , until , terrified of being crushed by the mob , they decided to seek refuge in the open fields , but they had hardly agreed on this when fresh ash clouds , denser than ever , overwhelmed them and brought total darkness . |
| 8 | But as The Smiths were advised to sever all contacts with Rough Trade , they decided to drop Easterhouse from the tour . |
| 9 | This concern of both popes was voiced and manifested by the frequent nuncios and legates whom they sent to arrange peace between the king and his barons , or between England and Scotland , or between England and France . |
| 10 | Their first auction in Moscow was successful because they managed to obtain permission from the Soviet authorities to export a group of Russian paintings from the Twenties and Thirties . |
| 11 | Every king from James I to James V ( though not Mary ) built ; as with the great guns and the great ships , so they managed to find money for the great buildings . |
| 12 | Most Greek religious festivals occurred at or near full moon , but since they were associated with agricultural activities they had to take place at the appropriate times of the year . |
| 13 | One widow and four unmarried people were sharing the little house , and still they had to find room for the customers who wanted an ounce of tobacco or a portion of snuff . |
| 14 | They had to make policy on the hoof and they reprieved that place . |
| 15 | But Edward 's subjects can have had little faith in these oft-repeated promises of reform : they continued to regard disafforestment as the only effective remedy for their grievances . |
| 16 | Some editors believed they would be better off if they refused to take advantage of the new rules and continued to let the censor see their material in manuscript . |
| 17 | Generally , these policies were successful in preventing heavy unemployment like that experienced in the 1930s , but unfortunately they tended to give rise to the phenomenon known as ‘ stop-go ’ . |
| 18 | They tended to cast doubt on the objective nature of the atonement — at least the Catholic scholastics and Reformers had held on to that — stressing instead the subjective changes wrought in mankind by Christ 's sacrifice ( such as a growth in God-consciousness or moral transformation ) . |
| 19 | In practice ( and in the short run ) , however , they wanted to see government by the " fittest " . |
| 20 | They did not want to confuse their audience with images of pacifists , masochists or the self-proclaimed ‘ fierce dykes ’ who screamed that they wanted to make love to the first lady . |
| 21 | If they did know , then perhaps they intended to follow Surere into the desert . |