Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they failed to reach the fuses in time , they 'd be killed with the rest on the wall , and only a little earlier than the men of both sides who would open fire , without doubt , claiming treachery . |
| 2 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 3 | In this case Brightman J decided that trustees who held most of the shares in a company were negligent when they failed to prevent the directors of the company from entering into a highly speculative property development project , which turned out to be unsuccessful . |
| 4 | Because there was still enough runway space to go around , they failed to attract the airlines . |
| 5 | The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa . |
| 6 | because they 've got a season ticket and they got to feed the ducks and |
| 7 | But after Nick confronted council chiefs , they agreed to waive the costs . |
| 8 | An extradition treaty was signed with Rwanda on Aug. 16 aimed at improving effectiveness in combating crime ; the treaty excluded individuals wanted for political offences , and both governments reserved the right to refuse to surrender their own citizens , in which cases they agreed to prosecute the individuals themselves . |
| 9 | They agreed to adopt the Friends of the Earth information set out in paragraph 3.1 of the report . |
| 10 | They sought to define the limits of permissible conduct in an area where calculated ambiguity in policy carried too high risks . |
| 11 | In London Whigs and Dissenters not only organised counter-demonstrations , where they burnt effigies of the Pope , the Pretender and Tory defectors , but they also engaged in vigilante activity , as they sought to suppress the activities of the Jacobite crowds . |
| 12 | They stopped to watch the dodgems . |
| 13 | They stopped to help the Danes straighten their bent rudder instead of going on to win the gold medal themselves . |
| 14 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 15 | The Opposition have made pledges on free phones and loft insulation — and only today we heard that they proposed to cut the profits of the electricity industry by 37.5 per cent . |
| 16 | It seems likely , therefore , that in the process of drawing up the Feoda , as clerks and local lords decided under which heading most fief-holders should appear , they helped to crystallize the castellanies . |
| 17 | J.P.G. Freeman credits them with a " modest " influence when they helped to persuade the Americans that agreement with the USSR was dependent on the exclusion of West Germany from direct control over nuclear arms . |
| 18 | They helped to swell the congregations of the churches with formal church parades on Sunday mornings and informal attendance on Sunday evenings . |
| 19 | Kylie 's organisation believed the unofficial pictures were literally losing their star millions and whenever they saw those pictures on sale they moved to sue the publishers . |
| 20 | They tried to use the methods they had learned at Harvard until these were vetoed by their new boss . |
| 21 | I think they tried to persuade the landlords to bring another . |
| 22 | They tried to take the cowboys on at their own game . |
| 23 | What I can also tell you is that Lucy 's engaged the erm British Cast Iron Research Association to carry out a survey , and they tried to repeat the circumstances of the explosion , and they could n't do so . |
| 24 | Only they seemed to understand the rules ; one of them turned round and stroked Nigel 's knee . |
| 25 | At an early stage in their expansion they came to realize the opportunities presented by overseas markets , and they established an office and works in Vienna in 1857 to serve the countries of central and eastern Europe . |
| 26 | There was er a man here his his name was James and I I do n't know was it one of his relatives that was buried , but he dreamt that they came to snatch the bodies |
| 27 | Although formally set out only at a later date ( c.1372 ) , they came to include the rights to create notaries , to legitimize bastards , to grant letters conferring the status of bourgeoisie and nobility , to issue pardons and remissions , to license fairs and markets , to permit suitors to be represented at law by proctors , and to legislate for the common weal of the kingdom . |
| 28 | Oh , that 's when they came to change the curtains . |
| 29 | The club will also lose the £80,000 premium they paid to cover the bonuses . |
| 30 | As they turned to leave the porters arrived , Sister following the stretcher with the patient 's folder in her hand . |