Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her .
2 Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations .
3 But although they both tried to smile still , neither of them failed to notice the past tense she had used for the word ‘ love ’ .
4 In the summer of 1557 , some of them tried to break the stalemate .
5 One of them tried to jump the ditch and landed on Canny , breaking his neck ( Lincoln Journal , Nebraska 28 December 1987 ) .
6 None of them seemed to include the tube in their itineraries , but there was some useful advice on how to secure the best berths on a Nile river cruiser and an interesting complaint about the lack of leg room on Concorde which assured him that the R and the F of this world had to contend with life 's little niggles just like everybody else .
7 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 .
8 The next hour passed amiably , by which time the two of them began to feel the effects of the day .
9 An overlay of interactive colouring them followed to bring an element of form , though intentionally avoiding too detailed a degree of modelling .
10 She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 They failed to persuade the electorate .
14 Their daughters found Charlie Fox , 63 , and wife Tess , 53 , shot at their home in Co Tyrone after they failed to answer the phone .
15 Of course they were and they failed , and they failed to penetrate the defence
16 They failed to reach a consensus and in April and May submitted separate reports .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 They failed to appreciate the fact that the G'bai turned it into an island .
22 Nevertheless , they failed to stop a deluge of complaints about the collection 's shortcomings and María Corral 's personal tastes .
23 But they failed to stop the accident because staff were poorly trained .
24 None of this lot aches because they failed to change the world .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Even then they failed to catch a glimpse of the plane , it had been immediately engulfed in a fifty-foot-high curtain of water and spray .
29 However , they failed to complete the preparation of this before they lost office in 1970 .
30 But in the Dr McKenna Cup against both Monaghan and Tyrone they failed to keep the momentum going .
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