Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed in rejecting the balance of power as a hopelessly inefficient mechanism for this purpose . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the methods employed by the utilitarian would always he justified if they succeeded in procuring the desired end . |
| 3 | Remember how they succeeded in shifting the target in the World Cup quarter-final against Western Samoa ? |
| 4 | There is a touch of ‘ learned ignorance ’ about the disarmingly simple solutions proposed , but they succeeded in breaking the impasse . |
| 5 | On Feb. 21 Yeltsin 's opponents in the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet condemned his leadership and in an apparent attempt to oust him they succeeded in getting the backing of the required one-fifth of deputies to convene an emergency sitting of the Russian Federation Congress of People 's Deputies on March 28 . |
| 6 | ‘ At the end of a month-long dispute they succeeded in obtaining the contract for these jobs from the hospital administration and were consequently entitled to the wage guaranteed by the National Cleaners Contract ’ . |
| 7 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 8 | At Messina they succeeded in winning the support of Italy for a move towards broad economic integration , triumphing over both a more limited conception advocated by West Germany that fell somewhere between supranationalism and the old sectoral route , and the doubts of France over the whole concept of a common market . |
| 9 | Using tanks , heavy artillery and the threat of air strikes , they succeeded in defeating the rebels in 18 hours . |
| 10 | Engineering union leader Bill Jordan said : ‘ The pin-striped patriots of the City laughed as they profited from putting the boot into the British economy . ’ |
| 11 | One of the brigade 's proudest possessions is a letter from King George V , thanking them for the part they played in saving the Royal Train during the disastrous fire in the Works in 1933 , when £30,000 worth of damage was caused . |
| 12 | Save The Children are to be congratulated for the part they played in securing the nineteen eighty nine United Nations convention on the rights of the child . |
| 13 | Some villages had wolf skins pinned to their doors , freshly flayed , and one they came to had the head of a Rime Giant set on a stake outside the headman 's house . |
| 14 | When they came to plotting the lighting for Countess Maritza , Therese 's first starring role , he became very aggressive . |
| 15 | The nearest they came to securing the cushion of a two-goal lead came when Rush lobbed the ball into the path of Davenport , who failed to get sufficient power into a shot to beat Walton , who was still deputising for the injured Gunn . |
| 16 | In tacit agreement , they separated before reaching the farm . |
| 17 | The opposition in England 's group was nothing like as strong as they faced in winning the HDM tournament in Holland before Christmas . |
| 18 | On 1 December Cumberland moved some of his cavalry forward to Congleton , from which they withdrew after confirming the presence of Lord George Murray 's troops , but this intelligence left the Duke more undecided than ever about the Jacobites ' real objective , as his private secretary admitted in a letter , dated 2 December 1745 , to London : |
| 19 | They flourished by eating the haplochromines — which now make up only about one per cent of the catch . |
| 20 | Under uncertain conditions , Smith 's team came into their own — as they showed in winning the world title in Winnipeg two years ago . |
| 21 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 22 | Our they 'll want to forget that the Tories programme and policies , they lied about taxes they promised not to extend V A T they lied about protecting the value of pensions well I hope the people who get the eight four P and the one twenty , the one 's that the old dears will remember that because that 's what they will be getting . |
| 23 | Whether or not they lied in describing the agreement with Edmund , as Florence claims , Cnut 's use of it ( assuming that the Worcester chronicler can be trusted thus far ) to legitimise his position is interesting , because it suggests that right of conquest was not thought title enough . |
| 24 | The additional energy they enjoyed after following the diet for a few weeks helped them to take on a much more positive attitude towards life — I could sense a really happy attitude in the remarks on the questionnaires . |
| 25 | The route they followed on leaving the town is not known in detail . |
| 26 | That 's the way he wanted it and his own bosses at American International Pictures made further changes through the difficulties they anticipated in getting the film distributed to the cinemas ; it was quite probable that it would arouse backlash over its drug content , although , as John Baxter wrote in his review of Sixties films , it was one of those films that exposed with skill the psychological moral pressures vexing society . |
| 27 | Mixing their metaphors with exuberance , they talked of reversing the tide of history , delivering a skills revolution and mounting a crusade to make the British workforce the best trained in Western Europe . |
| 28 | Eventually , after some awkward silences in the kitchen while they grimly drank endless cups of coffee , they settled for organising the party . |
| 29 | They started by clearing the tables and arranging the wooden chairs on the fixed padded seats around the wall . |
| 30 | They died without questioning the cause . |