Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commentators claimed that the UN would implement its threat of economic sanctions against the Khmers Rouges if they failed to comply with the deadline . |
| 2 | In those circumstances the plaintiffs were entitled to obtain possession of the premises unless they failed to comply with the terms of s.146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 . |
| 3 | They were , however , guaranteed state immunity from any new charges after they agreed to co-operate with the government investigation . |
| 4 | The plaintiffs sued for the defendant 's failure to honour this promise and the defendant pleaded lack of consideration , the plaintiffs being already under a duty of delivery by the contract with A. The Court of Exchequer ( Martin and Wilde BB. ) found for the plaintiffs : Wilde B. thought that the plaintiffs might have found it advantageous not to comply with their contract with A so that their agreement with the defendant was a detriment to them ; in any event , they agreed to part with the cargo to the defendant which was a benefit to him . |
| 5 | It was not that they went away , it was that they became interwoven with the strange elusive echoes and the memories that lingered in the vast dark Castle . |
| 6 | The Nez Perce reached the Missouri on 23rd September , where they asked to trade with the fifteen soldiers at Cow Island Landing supply station . |
| 7 | Their long campaign for his release was courageous and relentless ; it also almost wrecked their personal lives as they tried to cope with the glare of the world 's media and the frustrations of clandestine diplomacy . |
| 8 | In the book " Intonation , Accent and Rhythm " , A. Butler says in reporting an experiment that , " listeners tended to interpret what they heard to conform with the stress pattern , often in conflict with the segmental information . " |
| 9 | The principal transitions from one phase of people 's life to another were thought of as crises and as a result the community to which they belonged assisted with the appropriate rituals . |
| 10 | Babcock countered that the plant 's operators had all the information that they needed to cope with the crisis . |
| 11 | They needed to couple with the big dogs . |
| 12 | Before they started to work with the video all the teachers were shown the contract which was drawn up by Kate Kennett . |
| 13 | But at some point they decided to compete with the lending libraries in their own field . |
| 14 | It awaits to be seen whether German social workers will find a way forward beyond the horizon drawn by this Act as they managed to do with the previous Act . |
| 15 | Yesterday , the inquiry heard details of letters written by Customs and Foreign Office officials in which they discussed interfering with the defence case . |
| 16 | They preferred to stick with the old ways . |
| 17 | His successor , Majorian , is unlikely to have gained the support of the Burgundians in 458 , when he drove them out of the lands which they had received with the approval of the Gallo-Roman senators . |
| 18 | Whatever the case , the alliance which they had made with the family of L'Isle jourdain ( closely related to the Duèse clan ) , stood them in good stead with the Avignon papacy until John XXII 's death in 1334 . |
| 19 | They had pleaded with the bankruptcy judge to close down Eastern last autumn , but instead he allowed it to remain airborne and continue to run down its cash resources . |
| 20 | They were never sold , though the lawyers thought they had gone with the others . |
| 21 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 22 | So , as they had done with the relations of production , Marx and Engels tried to show that this state of affairs was not inevitable , but the product of a specific historical development . |
| 23 | Moreover , Macmillan managed to ensure that the Americans did not impose a dual key system as they had done with the RAF-manned Thors . |
| 24 | In he north they had merged with the Semitic colonists from Arabia to produce the civilization of Aksum . |
| 25 | They could n't be very quick because there was no electric light upstairs and they had to manage with the candle Carrie was holding . |
| 26 | They had landed with the Anzacs at Gallipoli , when the battleships were deterred by fear of mines after HMS Irresistible and HMS Ocean were mined in the Dardanelles on 18 March 1915 . |
| 27 | However , if they had lived with the deceased , an unmarried partner 's children from a previous marriage or relationship might be able to prove they were dependent and obtain provision from the estate . |
| 28 | They remarked on the personal service , from the same senior consultant whom they had first met , comparing them with a larger firm who had acted in a heavy-handed way towards them and who had subsequently sent a junior consultant actually to handle the work , after they had dealt with the most senior partner at the beginning . |
| 29 | There was both white bread and brown bread , yellow curls of the best butter , two kinds of jam ( strawberry and apricot ) on the table and currant cake on the sideboard ready for when they had dealt with the pie . |
| 30 | In the battle for Tunis the 152nd had lost two commanding officers in three days ; and in Italy they had fought with the Guards in bloody actions from Cassino to the Po . |