Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | European heads of government from Moscow to Madrid showered telegrams of congratulation on Clinton , saying they expected to maintain good ties with Washington . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | More important for the long-term programme of submission was the fact that they agreed to allow Christian missionaries into their lands . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They produced fry two days later which were born during the afternoon . |
| 12 | They recommended using three modes , as in CSE , and a single grading system , though with special papers in some subjects for pupils of low or high ability . |
| 13 | Second , the solution they sought had serious implications for civil liberties since sections would effectively deprive individuals of their liberty . |
| 14 | As well as serving as informed sources themselves , they helped identify additional experts who were interviewed . |
| 15 | Together they helped attract 25,000 visitors last year . |
| 16 | They helped move three-and-a-half tons of soil into the garden . |
| 17 | But by then their finances were already weakened by the takeover frenzy of the late 1980s and by their alliance with Robert Campeau , whom they helped buy Federated Stores in the United States . |
| 18 | Through their attack upon the social revolution , their politicization of the armed forces , their intolerance of opposition , and , most of all , their extensive use of brutal secret police methods via the SIM ( Military Investigation Service ) , they helped to convince many inhabitants of the Republican zone that fascist oppression could be little worse than that under which they were already living . |
| 19 | They promised to drive two riders through twelve hoops of blazing straw . |
| 20 | The police officer replied that they involved showing certain exhibits to Anderson and putting certain questions . |
| 21 | Police beat back would-be emigrants as they tried to join sealed trains carrying their countrymen to the West , or sought refuge in the US embassy in East Berlin . |
| 22 | They tried to force several doors and windows , finally gaining entry through the conservatory . |
| 23 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 24 | The fierce debate between these two tendencies pointed to the difficulties — and personal anguish — women often experienced when they tried to develop positive representations of their own sexuality . |
| 25 | They tried having two machines but never had enough laundry to justify running them both . |
| 26 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 27 | On 11 March 1772 , two weeks after the society had its first meeting on 23 February , they reported discharging five debtors from the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark — the biggest debt was £2 5s 8d — two from the Poultry Compter ( biggest debt £6 18s 5d ) ; one from the Kings Bench Prison ; five from the Borough Compter ; four from the Wood Street Compter ; three from Whitechapel Prison ; five from Newgate Prison ; and one from the New Gaol in Whitecross Street , Southwark . |
| 28 | In the course of their literature search , on 16 April Palmer found a 1978 paper by the three Soviets — B. Mamyrin , L. Khabarin and V. Yudenich — in which they reported finding excessive amounts of helium-3 in various metals . |
| 29 | In the early 1980s they learnt to make concentrated powders . |
| 30 | She said that they seemed to regard Asian women as ignorant and stupid people who neglected their children . |