Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 2 | A lot of them failed to reach that desirable goal . |
| 3 | There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not . |
| 4 | As it flowed , it incorporated into itself masses of loose debris , mud , rubble and boulders , some of them reported to weigh fifty tons . |
| 5 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |
| 6 | Merrill asked brightly , when the silence between them began to grow oppressive . |
| 7 | Sheila Mann , consultant in psychiatry of old age at Homerton Hospital , warned of clients falling between two stools as they failed to receive adequate nursing or social care . |
| 8 | Despite launching sustained attacks on Kabul and other cities such as Jalalabad , Kandahar and Khost , they failed to take political or military advantage of the pullout and in the process lost ground and morale . |
| 9 | He took his forces into the Cambrésis , but they failed to take Cambrai and although the French and English armies confronted one another at Buironfosse neither would engage in battle . |
| 10 | Campaigners launched a direct offensive against contemporary medical theories which talked of the inevitability of the male sexual urge , arguing that they failed to take proper account of Darwinist insights . |
| 11 | The subject attracted no interest , and they failed to secure enough participants for the proposed 2-hour discussion . |
| 12 | But they gave up when they failed to obtain financial assistance from the British government . |
| 13 | They failed to obtain any long-term understanding on future regional coal price differentials from the National Coal Board , but their discussions did seem to indicate that there would be advantages to shifting away from the high-cost coalfields of Kent , South Wales and Scotland , and towards the cheaper coal of the East Midlands and Yorkshire . |
| 14 | You quoted David Griffiths saying that he had told the RAF Benevolent Fund that we would be ‘ pretty disappointed if they failed to raise one million pounds from the Marathon ’ . |
| 15 | They were therefore not in breach unless they failed to exercise due diligence . |
| 16 | Yet they failed to achieve absolute chance . |
| 17 | League high-flyers Academicals lost 3-2 at Old Xaverians and Cabin came unstuck when they failed to convert two penalties in a 2-0 setback at St. Aloysius . |
| 18 | In Britain they failed to convert more than a faction of the Labour party , which was outvoted the year after it won its victory at the party conference . |
| 19 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
| 20 | A group of eight armed civilians who took over the radio station in Antananarivo , the capital , on July 29 surrendered to the armed forces after they failed to win popular support . |
| 21 | The baby was put through extensive tests during a 10-day stay but they failed to find any signs of the fits complained of . |
| 22 | These changes have been made because , when the original Regulations were drafted , they failed to require non-qualifying trusts to hold any shares at all . |
| 23 | But although Frank took two wickets for South Africa and cousin J.T. took one for England , they failed to get each other out . |
| 24 | More than 30% of cows culled in Holland were slaughtered because they failed to become pregnant . |
| 25 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 26 | They failed to invest and invest efficiently on a large enough scale ; they failed to develop sufficient numbers of new products and they failed to raise productivity rapidly enough . |
| 27 | If they failed to consider any change of heart she may be tempted to make in the future , that is down to their own stupidity and naivete . |
| 28 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 29 | European heads of government from Moscow to Madrid showered telegrams of congratulation on Clinton , saying they expected to maintain good ties with Washington . |
| 30 | they got to see that . |