Example sentences of "[vb past] they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
2 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
3 | We asked them to consider two things — what would make a good general gift for any fishkeeper — and what would they actually want to find in their Christmas stocking . |
4 | But I asked them to photograph those documents which we found and they do n't want to do it , so that 's up to them . |
5 | He went in to his bank and got them to print new cheque-books , and instead of signing ‘ N.O. Russell ’ , he now signed ‘ Oliver Russell ’ . |
6 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
7 | Mr Allen Abramson , a London University anthropologist who has studied initiation rituals , said that most societies used them to mark important developments in a person 's life , and that they often involved pain or privation . |
8 | Thus , in Dorchester Finance Company Ltd v Stebbing , two non-executive directors were held to have been negligent in equipping an executive director with signed blank cheques who used them to make unrecoverable loans . |
9 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
10 | However , in March 1676 , the King commanded them to execute these laws with renewed vigour . |
11 | But he took charge of men ; organized them ; persuaded or inspired or commanded them to endure incredible things . |
12 | then I noticed them exchanging terse remarks every time my man was facing . |
13 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
14 | A massive security operation has been mounted in the city and United Nations offices in New Delhi have cancelled visits by foreign staff , banned field trips by local personnel and advised them to avoid crowded places . |
15 | Spenser certainly found ready contemporary imitators , most noticeably among fellow poets such as Barnabe Rich or Sir John Davies whose interest in Irish affairs also provoked them to write political tracts . |
16 | Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew said the RUC still had his full support and he believed they pursued all killers with equal determination . |
17 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
18 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
19 | the empire we allowed them to have British passports did n't we ? |
20 | Recently , Sir John Thomas 's group from the Royal Institution , London , has used an instrumental arrangement at Daresbury that allowed them to capture both types of information on the same sample while it was actually undergoing a chemical change . |
21 | But as European and Japanese business turned their attention to the US market their relatively low wage costs allowed them to make substantial inroads . |
22 | Theorists can now solve the problems of solid-state physics in terms of the local structure , whereas previously they could deal only with materials where the complete structure was periodic and crystalline symmetry allowed them to make colossal simplifications . |
23 | Many were following the old General ( later Combined ) Degree which allowed them to study three subjects for finals . |
24 | To break this cycle we asked the women to aim at eating three meals each day and encouraged them to take small steps to reach this goal . |
25 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
26 | It was claimed that trustees of the NUM ( the President , the Vice-President and the Secretary ) were in breach of their duties and the High Court ordered them to recover these assets and hand them over to the sequestrators . |
27 | I ordered them to fasten all windows — much good that would do — draw the curtains , and stay out of sight . |
28 | The FA have already fined Birmingham £50,000 and ordered them to play two matches behind closed doors , both sentences suspended until the end of next season . |
29 | In the 1920s their financial position improved and , despite the reductions of income in the 1930s , the cheap money policy which followed the abandonment of the gold standard and the move to protection , permitted them to obtain cheap mortgages to buy the thousands of three-bedroomed semi-detached houses which were being built in the South and the Midlands at between £400 and £450 . |
30 | Over half the sample stated that the information that they received from DTI prompted them to consider Open Systems for their company . |