Example sentences of "they [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 2 | Since they lacked the necessary cash , the government would be obliged to furnish them with credit . |
| 3 | More significantly , they lacked the personal conviction necessary to argue for the ‘ balanced ’ curriculum for the younger pupils . |
| 4 | Perhaps they lacked the ideological baggage , or even the intellectual equipment , to recognize the type of mentality which lay behind the smiles and jokes . |
| 5 | They fear the proposed withdrawal from 17 May of some stops by ScotRail and InterCity will cause further deterioration in the service . |
| 6 | Pushing their way up through the soil with force they pierced the fallen leaves . |
| 7 | Finally , the RAC 's responses were interesting in that they revealed the wide variety of provision of training that already existed , carried out within institutions and provided by major regional centres , and also suggested that this diversity would continue . |
| 8 | He said they revealed the true length of the queues . |
| 9 | But his reckoning was good : they skimmed the British trench system and raced across the ruptured wastes of no-man's-land exactly opposite the given map reference . |
| 10 | I remember how calm and serene my father looked as he lay in his coffin and how I seemed to feel something break within me when they lowered the plush-covered lid and we rode behind the hearse to Rosedale Cemetery for the interment . |
| 11 | He had watched them silently as they lowered the little bush into the prepared hole , with considerable argument as to how the roots should be spread . |
| 12 | They dispute the economic argument , saying the economy would be strengthened by improving energy efficiency . |
| 13 | When the clothes were wet and were put to dry in front of the household 's fire , they polluted the whole atmosphere with sulphurous fumes . |
| 14 | Their lips met once more as slowly they savoured the pure essence of love . |
| 15 | Then the moment came when the tow line was released and they savoured the eerie feeling of riding the rising thermals . |
| 16 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 17 | After a lengthy discussion with the Foreign Minister , Mr Qian Qichen , they met the Prime Minister , Mr Li Peng , and the Communist Party leader , Mr Jiang Zemin . |
| 18 | Patients were classified into three groups : ( a ) ‘ probable ’ Alzheimer 's disease if they met the clinical criteria and had a Hachinski score less than 5 ; ( b ) ‘ broad ’ Alzheimer 's disease defined after reclassification of all presenile patients by discriminant analysis ( this group included all probable Alzheimer 's disease ) ; and ( c ) multi-infarct dementia — a definite history of at least one cerebrovascular accident and a Hachinski score greater than 6 . |
| 19 | When Sarah told her that he had been offered and refused a foreman 's job , Anne was bitterly angry that he had said nothing about it when they met the previous evening , but now she was unable to resist saying , ‘ Yes , that would be great , ’ as coolly as possible . |
| 20 | Normally the top two finishers in each event would be named in the team provided they met the qualifying time set by the International Amateur Athletic Federation . |
| 21 | Her eyes flashed coldly as they met the blank astonishment in his . |
| 22 | It is while at an Instructor training course at the scouts ' Longbridge centre that they met the infamous Saun Baker and started to paddle with an informal group of Thames weir bashers . |
| 23 | And what is true for you would be true for every other supplier : they too will supply more than the natural level if the price on their island is above what they expected the average price to be , and less if it is below . |
| 24 | Delegates indicated that the next full CODESA meeting would be held in April ( rather than in March as originally intended ) , when they expected the working groups to have made substantive progress . |
| 25 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 26 | ‘ He said he would buy me a hat and I told him we 'd wait until they got the new 'uns in ; but when we come to it a week or two later he would n't spend his money . |
| 27 | But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period |
| 28 | ‘ They got the other women to call me that so that they would n't like me . |
| 29 | They slept for a while , they got the other bottle , they swam , they talked and sighed , Jessica scanned the Fahan shore for a friendly sail , they slept again . |
| 30 | They got the good dividend . |