Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year four of them agreed to set a low common external tariff instead . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 4 | But although they both tried to smile still , neither of them failed to notice the past tense she had used for the word ‘ love ’ . |
| 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 three of them moved thought the ship at a speed that I can hardly describe . |
| 7 | In the summer of 1557 , some of them tried to break the stalemate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of them tried to jump the ditch and landed on Canny , breaking his neck ( Lincoln Journal , Nebraska 28 December 1987 ) . |
| 10 | When the children of Israel were camped in Moab near Jericho , many of them came to worship the local god , Bael-Poor , and there was some mixing with the Moabites . |
| 11 | On the contrary many of them came to inspect the " little blue customs ship " and stayed for refreshments . |
| 12 | None of them seemed to include the tube in their itineraries , but there was some useful advice on how to secure the best berths on a Nile river cruiser and an interesting complaint about the lack of leg room on Concorde which assured him that the R and the F of this world had to contend with life 's little niggles just like everybody else . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Shield-hung hurdles were brought out into the field , and bowmen and slingshot-throwers behind them began to shred the trees with a descending curtain of missiles . |
| 15 | The next hour passed amiably , by which time the two of them began to feel the effects of the day . |
| 16 | All of them dreaded seeing the " hand-of-death " . |
| 17 | An overlay of interactive colouring them followed to bring an element of form , though intentionally avoiding too detailed a degree of modelling . |
| 18 | All of them died leaving a minor to succeed . |
| 19 | She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man . |
| 20 | It generated a large volume of mail and telephone calls and frightened enough members into believing that the electoral consequences would be dire if they failed to support the president . |
| 21 | Though his batsmen dominated most of the final day , they failed to silence a grumbling chorus . |
| 22 | They failed to persuade the electorate . |
| 23 | Although the Communists had greatly modified their policy they failed to persuade the leadership of the Labour Party to make any concessions on the United Front or affiliation proposals . |
| 24 | Their daughters found Charlie Fox , 63 , and wife Tess , 53 , shot at their home in Co Tyrone after they failed to answer the phone . |
| 25 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 26 | Of course they were and they failed , and they failed to penetrate the defence |
| 27 | They failed to reach a consensus and in April and May submitted separate reports . |
| 28 | This criticism was in part a reflection of the call made by the Report of the Committee on Physical Deterioration for greater physical and mental education for adolescents , but it also pointed to the three main criticisms of clubs which were reiterated years later by Freeman : that they could only really provide amusement ; that their positive educational value was small ; and that they failed to reach the mass of boys . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In establishing four oral rehydration packet production sites in Bangladesh , they failed to reach the majority of the Bangladeshi people owing to the inefficiencies of the production sites , the inherent inadequacies of the Bangladeshi transport network and the rural nature of the vast majority of the population . |