Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The subject attracted no interest , and they failed to secure enough participants for the proposed 2-hour discussion . |
| 2 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 3 | But although Frank took two wickets for South Africa and cousin J.T. took one for England , they failed to get each other out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There would be times for tenderness , and one such time came later , in the aftermath of passion enriched by the knowledge of love , a bonus as they lay touching each other languidly and lovingly , luxuriating in the freedom of being able to express their feelings in this alternative way , confidently but without urgency . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |
| 13 | So that when they sit facing each other on either side of their fire-place , both grins take off in the direction of the mantelpiece , as if drawn by the draught . |
| 14 | And how do you know for a fact that they intend to bring these sorts of techniques in to Britain ? |
| 15 | Even if , like Cox ( 1981 ) , they represent Hispanic , Native-American , Asian-American and Afro-American women 's experiences , they tend to treat these categories as equivalent , and ignore differences within them , which may be more important than differences between them . |
| 16 | Because the home is a workplace for women , they tend to spend more time there than men or children . |
| 17 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ The purpose of the grant is to extend choices for working parents , mainly women since they tend to take most responsibility for childcare . |
| 19 | They tend to regard each others ' markets as their own ‘ home ’ markets , whereas UK companies still tend to regard selling to EC countries as exporting . |
| 20 | This suggests they tend to pay more attention to cigarette advertising . |
| 21 | They tend to forget these interests when using predominantly middle-class women psychologists ' arguments , for example . |
| 22 | They tend to have more empathy towards anything foreign and are more aware of language learning difficulties — having struggled to master English to a fairly high level . |
| 23 | They tend to favour those media which have audiences with ( usually ) high purchasing powers as against media which have readers or viewers with limited purchasing power . |
| 24 | The choice they make has all kinds of consequences — whether they 'll be up or down , whether they 'll be fit to drive or fit to live , and whether they are risking a criminal record . |
| 25 | They mean to succeed this time . |
| 26 | For some teachers , problems arose when they sought to reconcile this expectation with their simultaneous sense of obligation to monitor , diagnose , assess and interact at the level of the individual child . |
| 27 | On the one hand there was the need to allow individual divergences from the hierarchy and to leave teachers some freedom to make their own contribution to the curriculum — a goal often repeated by all Secretaries of State as they sought to limit that freedom . |
| 28 | However , once Governments of either party know that they will complete a Bill on a certain day , they hand much of the power over to the Opposition to decide how they want to use that time to debate the proper timing and clauses . |
| 29 | They want to use less fuel and cause less pollution , but at the same time recoil from too many sacrifices in terms of comfort and performance . |
| 30 | Darlington 's cyclists also complained about being forced to dismount if they want to use those routes . |