Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though his batsmen dominated most of the final day , they failed to silence a grumbling chorus . |
| 2 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 3 | Alas , they failed to make a complete list and about 60 names of the fallen were left off the temporary plaque . |
| 4 | However , directors of the 60 per cent-owned member of Robert Maxwell 's stable of companies , said they expected to maintain a final year dividend of 3p ‘ in view of the satisfactory progress ’ of Pergamon 's £90m-plus disposal programme . |
| 5 | The Foreign Ministers of Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela signed accords on energy , transport and communications and announced that they planned to create a free-trade zone between their countries by mid-1994 . |
| 6 | Sir Hal Miller , chief executive of the show 's organisers , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , also revealed that more than half the visitors had said they planned to buy a new car ‘ in the coming months ’ . |
| 7 | In 1946 , however , they agreed to establish a Scandinavian Committee for Legislative Cooperation . |
| 8 | They agreed to establish a working group to formulate an accord of " neighbourliness , friendship and co-operation " . |
| 9 | They sought to impose a single currency on all Community states . |
| 10 | And she was initially awed by the plots which the girls concocted as they sought to shame a particular teacher or fellow pupil , or simply to escape at impermissible hours from the school grounds . |
| 11 | And , indeed , they helped to establish a new resurgence of interest in the sociology of law . |
| 12 | Addressing a conference in London she said that all too often , families were left isolated drained and exhausted as they helped to rebuild a shattered life . |
| 13 | A year later she and her son Samuel travelled to Bury St Edmunds , where they helped found a Congregational church . |
| 14 | Dubos had been a pupil of Waksman , and together they tried to organize a round table discussion at the meetings of the Society of American Bacteriologists in Saint Louis during Christmas 1940 , on the subject of the production of antibacterial substances by micro-organisms . |
| 15 | THE UVF have admitted they tried to kill a Protestant man in east Belfast last night . |
| 16 | That gentile foster parents were liable to imbue youngsters with their own values , however hard they tried to take a neutral line , was undeniable , but the alternative , to turn away children because there were not enough Jewish homes for them to go to , was rejected out of hand by the RCM 's ruling council . |
| 17 | I was repeatedly threatened with rape and at one stage they tried to make a fellow detainee rape me . |
| 18 | As an estimate of the drift of religious change and of what was acceptable to local people , the tactics they adopted proved a hideous disaster whose memories have scarred the country to the present day . |
| 19 | The T'ang 's words were a harmless play on the name of the Longjing ch'a , but for Ben they seemed to hold a special meaning . |
| 20 | Wonderfully bizarre , compared to the local species , they seemed to symbolize a sudden awakening from the drab monotones of medieval Christianity to a much richer world than had previously been imagined . |
| 21 | ‘ I first saw his pictures during the punk period and they seemed to have a similar punch , a thriller realism . ’ |
| 22 | They seemed to have a good relationship , agree about most things , and never , never row — at least , not in front of the children . |
| 23 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 24 | The Chirwas say they came to see a sick relative . |
| 25 | As such gateways to heaven multiplied , they came to outline a new map of sacred urban topography . |
| 26 | 1973 ) which emphasized the damaging effects of ‘ drift ’ in care , they came to constitute a formidable ‘ Permanence Movement ’ , campaigning for early decision-making over whether a child entering care was to return to parents or be placed in permanent substitute care . |
| 27 | Even Picasso and Braque , who shared their discoveries so intimately that for a while they came to share a common vision , looked , it will be seen , at Cézanne in different ways . |
| 28 | Communications between them and Rough Trade came to a standstill as they prepared to undertake a short Scottish tour , and from this odd situation a strange story came to light . |
| 29 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
| 30 | He 'd only just retired , and they 'd built a beautiful bungalow . ’ |