Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 2 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 3 | As it flowed , it incorporated into itself masses of loose debris , mud , rubble and boulders , some of them reported to weigh fifty tons . |
| 4 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 5 | Sheila Mann , consultant in psychiatry of old age at Homerton Hospital , warned of clients falling between two stools as they failed to receive adequate nursing or social care . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The subject attracted no interest , and they failed to secure enough participants for the proposed 2-hour discussion . |
| 8 | But they gave up when they failed to obtain financial assistance from the British government . |
| 9 | They were therefore not in breach unless they failed to exercise due diligence . |
| 10 | Yet they failed to achieve absolute chance . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A group of eight armed civilians who took over the radio station in Antananarivo , the capital , on July 29 surrendered to the armed forces after they failed to win popular support . |
| 13 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 14 | These changes have been made because , when the original Regulations were drafted , they failed to require non-qualifying trusts to hold any shares at all . |
| 15 | But although Frank took two wickets for South Africa and cousin J.T. took one for England , they failed to get each other out . |
| 16 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | European heads of government from Moscow to Madrid showered telegrams of congratulation on Clinton , saying they expected to maintain good ties with Washington . |
| 20 | That meant he and Sara had hours and hours of hanging around together waiting to be called — and they got to know each other rather well . |
| 21 | But as they got to know each other Annabelle discovered that Steven liked the arts as much as the sciences/hiking as well as driving/driving cars as well as repairing them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 24 | Some 51.2% of those questioned at the end of 1991 said that they planned to buy more hardware but only 40.3% actually did . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | More important for the long-term programme of submission was the fact that they agreed to allow Christian missionaries into their lands . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | BRITISH COAL yesterday offered to cut the cost of supplies to privatised electricity generators and guaranteed that price rises would be kept within the rate of inflation provided they agreed to sign long-term contracts . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |