Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Because there was still enough runway space to go around , they failed to attract the airlines . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | because they 've got a season ticket and they got to feed the ducks and |
| 7 | But after Nick confronted council chiefs , they agreed to waive the costs . |
| 8 | An extradition treaty was signed with Rwanda on Aug. 16 aimed at improving effectiveness in combating crime ; the treaty excluded individuals wanted for political offences , and both governments reserved the right to refuse to surrender their own citizens , in which cases they agreed to prosecute the individuals themselves . |
| 9 | They agreed to adopt the Friends of the Earth information set out in paragraph 3.1 of the report . |
| 10 | The methods by which Berenzoid intends to sell the product are interesting and may actually get around most of my objections , as they intend installing the packages for their existing bureau customers . |
| 11 | One of their men boasted to me that they intend killing the ministers . |
| 12 | Those who initiate racialist talk ( without referring to a racist ideology ) may be a minority too , but since they are rarely contradicted or opposed they tend to shape the norms of the group . |
| 13 | The failure to come to terms with this task casts light on , though it does not excuse , the hectic character of the final part of Braudel 's Méditerranée : even when connections are traced between conjonctures and the actions of individuals , they tend to leave the actions heavily under-determined — so much so , in some cases , that they are barely explained at all . |
| 14 | They tend to restrict the causes of criminality to hereditary characteristics and overlook the effects of environmental influences and cultural traditions . |
| 15 | That 's the thing about heroes — they tend to reflect the goings-on in your life , and that 's why I 'm always interested to know who others like . |
| 16 | When people guess at the calorie content of a portion of food they tend to underestimate the calories in meat and cheese , mainly because there was such a deeply entrenched fallacy , persisting for so many years , that ‘ protein foods ’ like this could not possibly be fattening . |
| 17 | These assumptions about ourselves in relation to others are called life positions because they tend to dictate the positions we take up throughout life . |
| 18 | Oh yes , well you see they 've got the names |
| 19 | They sought to define the limits of permissible conduct in an area where calculated ambiguity in policy carried too high risks . |
| 20 | In London Whigs and Dissenters not only organised counter-demonstrations , where they burnt effigies of the Pope , the Pretender and Tory defectors , but they also engaged in vigilante activity , as they sought to suppress the activities of the Jacobite crowds . |
| 21 | They stopped to watch the dodgems . |
| 22 | They stopped to help the Danes straighten their bent rudder instead of going on to win the gold medal themselves . |
| 23 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 24 | Asked whether he felt Wimbledon should replace grass courts with some other surface he replied firmly , ‘ yes , of course … if they want to destroy The Championships . ’ |
| 25 | Erm he , he 's saying , he 's saying here that basically Chiang Kai-Shek erm and all the people of have s have talked about the fact that erm , you know , they wa they want to arouse the masses of the people but then that they 're gon na be scared to death when the masses do rise . |
| 26 | I think they want to sell the papers on Saturday . |
| 27 | The 362p at which they want to place the shares is 16p below the 378p paper value of Hongkong 's bid ( excluding the 7p dividend which Midland holders keep ) . |
| 28 | and then we carried straight on again but I wanted to get it done today , I did n't want to go back again weekend they want to get the carpets down inside and they 've got all the carpets there in the house , I mean it 's twenty eight foot long , twelve foot wide so erm we got the carpets in down and we 've got it in the house and it 's too big |
| 29 | seven o'clock , well I thought I 'd come a bit earlier forget that they want a tidy living room , they want to get the toys out of the way , they want to present themselves in the best possible light so they 'd be more forgiving if you 're late than if you 're too early to be on time . |
| 30 | They see a place for a Bill of Rights , a written constitution and constitutional court ; they want to increase the checks on government through a more balanced constitution consequent upon the establishment of a reformed , elected , second chamber with increased powers of delay ; and they look to a revival of the position of Parliament and parliamentary government . |