Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | FOREST 'S dismal season reached crisis point as they failed to beat a keeper who only this summer was struggling on the dole . |
| 32 | But they failed to place a swimmer in the final of the 100m backstroke whereas rivals Barnet Copthall , fourth in the 1500m thanks to a 16min 25.87sec swim by Malcolm McCallum , have a competitor in every final at the half-way stage . |
| 33 | They failed to meet the League 's noon deadline to provide assurances they could continue and tomorrow 's Coca-Cola Cup tie at Reading has been cancelled with the Second Division side getting a bye . |
| 34 | The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa . |
| 35 | He had no great difficulty in getting together the numbers he required , and simply told them that if they failed to make the grade in training , they would have to return to their original units . |
| 36 | On that date , a group of men from Kilwinning and district — , in other words , they met to resurrect the papingo shoot . |
| 37 | The committee of inquiry found that many of the teachers they met held the view that Afro-Caribbean pupils ‘ inevitably caused difficulties ’ and were unlikely to achieve in academic terms , although they had high expectations of their potential in sport and the expressive arts ( Rampton , 1981 , p. 13 ) . |
| 38 | On 12th April 1827 they met to discuss the possibility of transferring the School to new buildings on a new site . |
| 39 | They met to discuss the project . |
| 40 | He lost no time : his report was completed by the end of the month , and early in April they met to consider the Report and its Recommendation . |
| 41 | Rover had not set a figure on how many workers they expected to take the cash offer , he added . |
| 42 | The intention of the plaintiffs was , to my mind , clear ; they expected to recover the money if they won their action . |
| 43 | Teachers at Dover College described Richens as a brilliant sportsman and scholar who they expected to become a lawyer . |
| 44 | After a three-month stoppage , engineers said last week that they expected to have the plant running again in a fortnight . |
| 45 | because they 've got a season ticket and they got to feed the ducks and |
| 46 | Its representatives could not understand the peculiar reaction they got form the French whenever they produced their business cards . |
| 47 | Hawkins collaborated with Fleischmann during the latter 's visits to Utah and they planned to extend the data samples to include rods of 8 mm up to 2 cm diameter . |
| 48 | They planned to visit the Rockies and fly on to Vancouver and then down into the States . |
| 49 | Shortly after Yeltsin 's resignation Vyacheslav Shostakovsky read an announcement on behalf of a group of prominent Democratic Platform members to the effect that they planned to leave the CPSU in order to found their own party ; apparently this action had been triggered by the retention in the new party rules , approval on July 12 , of democratic centralism and a ban on factions . |
| 50 | All this , one may presume further , was supposed to supply the missing will and determination of the indigenous people and just in case the French might be feeling a little faint-hearted at the prospect , the US should immediately reconsider its policy at the first sign that the French were planning to give up or even if they planned to take the problem to the UN . |
| 51 | Do they prefer to have a choice ? |
| 52 | They agreed to examine the question of transferring WEU headquarters from London and Paris ( seats of the Secretariat and Parliamentary Assembly respectively ) to Brussels ( headquarters of both the EC and NATO ) . |
| 53 | They agreed to extend the aid programme ( already applying to Hungary and Poland ) to Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Yugoslavia and ( pending unification ) East Germany , on the grounds that all four had made sufficient progress towards democracy and a free market economy . |
| 54 | After persistent lobbying of the Bishop of Salford and correspondence with the Jesuits , they agreed to withdraw the church from sale , and worship now continues as before . |
| 55 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 56 | When William Wilson , Chairman of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners , introduced a Bill for the free feeding of schoolchildren by local authorities , early in the new session of Parliament , both the government and civil servants were unprepared , but in view of its considerable support in and out of Parliament , they agreed to support the Bill . |
| 57 | 23–4–1875 The attention of the Session was drawn to the desirability of having the children brought together on the Sabbath in a central place and they agreed to give the subject further consideration . |
| 58 | At the second meeting , in November , they agreed to call a halt to the free trade area negotiations . |
| 59 | They agreed to appoint a committee to facilitate the international monitoring of the violence . |
| 60 | The FA will not pursue the matter and yesterday they agreed to take no action against referee Ray Lewis , who was accused by a fan of swearing at him during last week 's match between Barnet and Walsall . |