Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It does appear that many large pension funds do carry out such a policy , with many of them attempting to replicate the FTSE 100 Index with their core portfolios so that the returns will match the market . |
| 32 | We wear them to avoid contaminating the environment with our own clothing . ’ |
| 33 | He cautioned them to avoid crossing the Waste but to cling instead to the edge of the forest . |
| 34 | Shield-hung hurdles were brought out into the field , and bowmen and slingshot-throwers behind them began to shred the trees with a descending curtain of missiles . |
| 35 | The next hour passed amiably , by which time the two of them began to feel the effects of the day . |
| 36 | All of them continue to enhance the role of the church musician by their devotion and perseverance . |
| 37 | He even uses words which come from the Old Testament Book of Daniel and they recognised that and here they 've got this pathetic looking individual in front of them threatening to destroy the temple , threatening to this , that and the other and here you 've got this power Sanhedrin who ca n't recognise him really as the Messiah and yet there 's a ring of truth about some of things that he 's talking about . |
| 38 | This not only gave the masters an extra hour 's work but saved them having to pay the breakfast allowance of 1½d ( 0.6p ) . |
| 39 | Goibniu was still studying the drawings and thinking that Reflection , greedy creature , would surely not be able to resist them and that it might n't be a bad idea to revive the ancient traditional dish of roast Gnome for the wedding feast , which would save them having to pay the Gnomes anything . |
| 40 | But er unfortunately those on the ground who have shown their skill at wrecking anything that does n't suit their purpose with the support of the Labour group , those on the ground will still be there and I do n't believe that er giving the director of education the executive powers is going to stop them continuing to take the sort of action they 've been taking . |
| 41 | ‘ I think hairdressers have got a bad reputation as so many of them try to dominate the client . |
| 42 | There is little theory-loading in any of these plates , and none of them attempt to catch the bird in motion as the ‘ field guides ’ of the twentieth century do . |
| 43 | She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man . |
| 44 | They fear damaging the child within their secure family relationship . |
| 45 | It generated a large volume of mail and telephone calls and frightened enough members into believing that the electoral consequences would be dire if they failed to support the president . |
| 46 | Although the Communists had greatly modified their policy they failed to persuade the leadership of the Labour Party to make any concessions on the United Front or affiliation proposals . |
| 47 | They failed to persuade the electorate . |
| 48 | Their daughters found Charlie Fox , 63 , and wife Tess , 53 , shot at their home in Co Tyrone after they failed to answer the phone . |
| 49 | Of course they were and they failed , and they failed to penetrate the defence |
| 50 | This criticism was in part a reflection of the call made by the Report of the Committee on Physical Deterioration for greater physical and mental education for adolescents , but it also pointed to the three main criticisms of clubs which were reiterated years later by Freeman : that they could only really provide amusement ; that their positive educational value was small ; and that they failed to reach the mass of boys . |
| 51 | If they failed to reach the fuses in time , they 'd be killed with the rest on the wall , and only a little earlier than the men of both sides who would open fire , without doubt , claiming treachery . |
| 52 | In establishing four oral rehydration packet production sites in Bangladesh , they failed to reach the majority of the Bangladeshi people owing to the inefficiencies of the production sites , the inherent inadequacies of the Bangladeshi transport network and the rural nature of the vast majority of the population . |
| 53 | They resorted to terror and adventurism , for which there was no justification now that a powerful Social Democratic movement had taken shape , and they failed to acknowledge the leadership that must be exercised by the proletariat over the peasantry and the democratic movement as a whole . |
| 54 | They failed to appreciate the fact that the G'bai turned it into an island . |
| 55 | But they failed to stop the accident because staff were poorly trained . |
| 56 | None of this lot aches because they failed to change the world . |
| 57 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 58 | At least two notable cantata composers , the Roman Giovanni Felice Sances ( c. 1600–1679 ) and Pietro ( Antonio ) Cesti ( 1623–69 ) , far more famous for his operas , ended their careers in the Imperial Chapel at Vienna , but they failed to transplant the chamber cantata there . |
| 59 | In this case Brightman J decided that trustees who held most of the shares in a company were negligent when they failed to prevent the directors of the company from entering into a highly speculative property development project , which turned out to be unsuccessful . |
| 60 | However , they failed to complete the preparation of this before they lost office in 1970 . |