Example sentences of "they [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I feel it was an enormous privilege to have known them because they made work such fun . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But in the end their greatest impact was the way in which they helped to change most people 's way of lite and in so doing changed much of the landscape . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They knelt facing each other and to George , Elizabeth looked no older than her sister , Sarah . |
| 17 | The men and women whom they encountered showed neither hostility towards their new enemies nor enthusiasm for a great patriotic war : |
| 18 | I would like to record that they tried to cheer each other up in their double misery , but I 'm afraid the truth is that as far as I know they never spoke to each other again . |
| 19 | They tried to force several doors and windows , finally gaining entry through the conservatory . |
| 20 | There stood the King of Kings and the president , choking and weeping as they tried to praise each other , their wives by their sides . |
| 21 | The Kurds have been and are being massacred , and are dying of neglect — our neglect — by the tens of thousands because they tried to escape that massacre , which we did nothing to prevent . |
| 22 | Their eyes rolled and their manes tossed , as , snorting and whinnying , they tried to bite each other . |
| 23 | She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust . |
| 24 | There are some very important bits that we need to be making a a note of there , and many witnesses told lies against Jesus , but their stories did n't agree , they tried to find some evidence against him in order to put him to death Mark tells us , but they could n't find any . |
| 25 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 26 | He had seized the opportunity while they dined to make another copy of a revolutionary tract calling for an end to French rule . |
| 27 | They seemed to take that kind of man to make him sergeant in the beginning after the Police Strike . |
| 28 | When they seemed to resemble each other rather too closely , he introduced random mutations in the offspring . |
| 29 | They seemed to go some way towards encapsulating the challenges that the notion of a shift of power to students holds for those immediately Involved . |
| 30 | They seemed to have many roles , in reproduction , in blood vessels , in certain enzyme systems , and in the activity of nerves . |