Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merrill asked brightly , when the silence between them began to grow oppressive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But they gave up when they failed to obtain financial assistance from the British government . |
| 7 | They were therefore not in breach unless they failed to exercise due diligence . |
| 8 | Yet they failed to achieve absolute chance . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | More than 30% of cows culled in Holland were slaughtered because they failed to become pregnant . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | European heads of government from Moscow to Madrid showered telegrams of congratulation on Clinton , saying they expected to maintain good ties with Washington . |
| 14 | More important for the long-term programme of submission was the fact that they agreed to allow Christian missionaries into their lands . |
| 15 | President Zaid bin Sultan al-Nahayan ( the ruler of Abu Dhabi ) visited Oman on May 1-4 for talks with Oman 's ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said , during which they agreed to raise diplomatic representation between the two countries to ambassadorial level . |
| 16 | BRITISH COAL yesterday offered to cut the cost of supplies to privatised electricity generators and guaranteed that price rises would be kept within the rate of inflation provided they agreed to sign long-term contracts . |
| 17 | In a final communiqué they agreed to accelerate economic integration of their countries by the creation of a customs union by 1995 , and called for the strengthening of economic ties with their main trading partner , the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 18 | Eros and Aphrodite were the most popular dolphin riders , and their relationship with the dolphins they rode appears sensuous , loving and often erotic . |
| 19 | The time they shared became special now , where before they had been free and easy . |
| 20 | Second , the solution they sought had serious implications for civil liberties since sections would effectively deprive individuals of their liberty . |
| 21 | Adopting peasant dress and a peasant craft they sought to spread political consciousness with the help of revolutionary literature couched in peasant idiom . |
| 22 | They sought to employ unskilled labour — " colting " — to make stockings by a cheaper method . |
| 23 | The court judged that their principles , objectives and methods conformed with the sharia ( Islamic law ) and was satisfied that they sought to preserve national unity , social peace , the socialist democratic system and socialist gains in keeping with the principles of the July 1952 and May 1971 revolutions . |
| 24 | The principal purpose of this book is to examine Ronald Reagan 's efforts to deal with these problems ; to examine the techniques he and his staff used as they sought to break free from the ties that bound them ; and to assess how successful Reagan was in mastering the system of government and in achieving his policy objectives . |
| 25 | He started his business at the lower end of the market by chartering whole trains and bringing Lancashire pensioners to small south coast hotels out of season , when they helped to retain key staff and keep the hotel doors open throughout the quiet months . |
| 26 | As well as serving as informed sources themselves , they helped identify additional experts who were interviewed . |
| 27 | But by then their finances were already weakened by the takeover frenzy of the late 1980s and by their alliance with Robert Campeau , whom they helped buy Federated Stores in the United States . |
| 28 | The police officer replied that they involved showing certain exhibits to Anderson and putting certain questions . |
| 29 | Police beat back would-be emigrants as they tried to join sealed trains carrying their countrymen to the West , or sought refuge in the US embassy in East Berlin . |
| 30 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |