Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year four of them agreed to set a low common external tariff instead . |
| 2 | Your wife should contact your tax office , or call at the nearest local office , and ask them to arrange to open a set of records for her . |
| 3 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 4 | Fads breed products with a short life-cycle , such as pop records and other leisure items ; fashions tend to develop or reappear over the course of years , and the products which follow them tend to have a relatively long life-cycle . |
| 5 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 6 | The crisis leading to Lenihan 's dismissal arose in connection with reports that in January 1982 the Fianna Fáil leadership had attempted to persuade President Patrick Hillery by telephone to allow them to try to form a government without calling a general election . |
| 7 | Although the Boards had somewhat uninspiring regional names , most of them tried to present a more appealing local public face by using acronyms or logos such as ‘ MANWEB ’ for the Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board , and ‘ Seeboard ’ for the South Eastern Board . |
| 8 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 9 | For example , if there are several quite unrelated species of unpalatable butterflies living in one particular region and one of them has evolved a warning pattern of black , yellow and red markings , it will pay the others to follow suit because they will then all share the ‘ training risks ’ associated with novice predators . |
| 10 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 11 | And one of them has had a day off . |
| 12 | Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’ |
| 13 | They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school . |
| 14 | the departments involved are heavily loaded , and none of them want to contribute a key person for this purpose . |
| 15 | Most of them seem to get a power trip from their ritualistic behaviour . |
| 16 | Only 16% planned to spend the lot , half of them to help buy a new home . |
| 17 | There are various means of inducing hypnosis — but not one of them includes swinging a watch on a chain before your eyes ! |
| 18 | You notice time and time again that one of them keeps reading a newspaper instead of working . |
| 19 | She believes that if patients and the purchasers who obtain medical care for them began to demand a better quality of front line service , then hospital managers would very quickly do something to improve the tasks undertaken by and supervision given to preregistration house officers . |
| 20 | An overlay of interactive colouring them followed to bring an element of form , though intentionally avoiding too detailed a degree of modelling . |
| 21 | More selective compounds did emerge , and some of them continue to play an important role . |
| 22 | The two of them decide to buy a disused police station and turn it into a hotel . |
| 23 | The experiment has been extended by trying to teach rats , at various intervals after teaching them to run to avoid a shock , to stay dead still to avoid being given a shock . |
| 24 | All of them died leaving a minor to succeed . |
| 25 | Though his batsmen dominated most of the final day , they failed to silence a grumbling chorus . |
| 26 | They failed to reach a consensus and in April and May submitted separate reports . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , they failed to stop a deluge of complaints about the collection 's shortcomings and María Corral 's personal tastes . |
| 28 | Even then they failed to catch a glimpse of the plane , it had been immediately engulfed in a fifty-foot-high curtain of water and spray . |
| 29 | FOREST 'S dismal season reached crisis point as they failed to beat a keeper who only this summer was struggling on the dole . |
| 30 | But they failed to place a swimmer in the final of the 100m backstroke whereas rivals Barnet Copthall , fourth in the 1500m thanks to a 16min 25.87sec swim by Malcolm McCallum , have a competitor in every final at the half-way stage . |