Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All of them died leaving a minor to succeed . |
| 7 | Though his batsmen dominated most of the final day , they failed to silence a grumbling chorus . |
| 8 | They failed to reach a consensus and in April and May submitted separate reports . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , they failed to stop a deluge of complaints about the collection 's shortcomings and María Corral 's personal tastes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | FOREST 'S dismal season reached crisis point as they failed to beat a keeper who only this summer was struggling on the dole . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 14 | Alas , they failed to make a complete list and about 60 names of the fallen were left off the temporary plaque . |
| 15 | Teachers at Dover College described Richens as a brilliant sportsman and scholar who they expected to become a lawyer . |
| 16 | However , directors of the 60 per cent-owned member of Robert Maxwell 's stable of companies , said they expected to maintain a final year dividend of 3p ‘ in view of the satisfactory progress ’ of Pergamon 's £90m-plus disposal programme . |
| 17 | The Foreign Ministers of Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela signed accords on energy , transport and communications and announced that they planned to create a free-trade zone between their countries by mid-1994 . |
| 18 | Sir Hal Miller , chief executive of the show 's organisers , the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , also revealed that more than half the visitors had said they planned to buy a new car ‘ in the coming months ’ . |
| 19 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 20 | At the second meeting , in November , they agreed to call a halt to the free trade area negotiations . |
| 21 | They agreed to appoint a committee to facilitate the international monitoring of the violence . |
| 22 | In 1946 , however , they agreed to establish a Scandinavian Committee for Legislative Cooperation . |
| 23 | They agreed to establish a " hot line " telephone link between the White House and the Kremlin , and in July 1963 concluded a nuclear test ban treaty , ruling out atmospheric tests . |
| 24 | They agreed to establish a US office in Hanoi to gather information about some 1,700 MIAs . |
| 25 | They agreed to establish a working group to formulate an accord of " neighbourliness , friendship and co-operation " . |
| 26 | They asked to see a doctor and Zahira was taken to another part of the building where , she says , she was superficially examined by a doctor and a nurse . |
| 27 | The first body they passed had a piece of paper pinned to its blanket , Smith , Maisie . |
| 28 | They sought to impose a single currency on all Community states . |
| 29 | And she was initially awed by the plots which the girls concocted as they sought to shame a particular teacher or fellow pupil , or simply to escape at impermissible hours from the school grounds . |
| 30 | At one point they stopped to smoke a chillim in a glade where the conifers were thinner and dense clumps of feathery-leafed bamboo had spread across the open spaces . |