Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 2 | True , they lacked the pipe-smoking liberal American politics of Fancher and Wolf thirteen years before , but they had , briefly , the market , caught on the cusp between the old and the new wave of 1968 , and they had the listings . |
| 3 | Since they lacked the necessary cash , the government would be obliged to furnish them with credit . |
| 4 | More significantly , they lacked the personal conviction necessary to argue for the ‘ balanced ’ curriculum for the younger pupils . |
| 5 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 6 | They lacked the menacing physical edge of the French loose trio , however , which had inflicted terrible damage on Wales 's budding stars . |
| 7 | Perhaps they lacked the ideological baggage , or even the intellectual equipment , to recognize the type of mentality which lay behind the smiles and jokes . |
| 8 | Pushing their way up through the soil with force they pierced the fallen leaves . |
| 9 | Finally , the RAC 's responses were interesting in that they revealed the wide variety of provision of training that already existed , carried out within institutions and provided by major regional centres , and also suggested that this diversity would continue . |
| 10 | He said they revealed the true length of the queues . |
| 11 | But his reckoning was good : they skimmed the British trench system and raced across the ruptured wastes of no-man's-land exactly opposite the given map reference . |
| 12 | I remember how calm and serene my father looked as he lay in his coffin and how I seemed to feel something break within me when they lowered the plush-covered lid and we rode behind the hearse to Rosedale Cemetery for the interment . |
| 13 | He had watched them silently as they lowered the little bush into the prepared hole , with considerable argument as to how the roots should be spread . |
| 14 | When the clothes were wet and were put to dry in front of the household 's fire , they polluted the whole atmosphere with sulphurous fumes . |
| 15 | Their lips met once more as slowly they savoured the pure essence of love . |
| 16 | Then the moment came when the tow line was released and they savoured the eerie feeling of riding the rising thermals . |
| 17 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 18 | After a lengthy discussion with the Foreign Minister , Mr Qian Qichen , they met the Prime Minister , Mr Li Peng , and the Communist Party leader , Mr Jiang Zemin . |
| 19 | These flaps gradually grew larger until they met the nasal and became a single sheet of metal , with slits to allow vision and holes for breathing . |
| 20 | Eventually they met the Royal in the final . |
| 21 | Patients were classified into three groups : ( a ) ‘ probable ’ Alzheimer 's disease if they met the clinical criteria and had a Hachinski score less than 5 ; ( b ) ‘ broad ’ Alzheimer 's disease defined after reclassification of all presenile patients by discriminant analysis ( this group included all probable Alzheimer 's disease ) ; and ( c ) multi-infarct dementia — a definite history of at least one cerebrovascular accident and a Hachinski score greater than 6 . |
| 22 | When Sarah told her that he had been offered and refused a foreman 's job , Anne was bitterly angry that he had said nothing about it when they met the previous evening , but now she was unable to resist saying , ‘ Yes , that would be great , ’ as coolly as possible . |
| 23 | Normally the top two finishers in each event would be named in the team provided they met the qualifying time set by the International Amateur Athletic Federation . |
| 24 | Her eyes flashed coldly as they met the blank astonishment in his . |
| 25 | It is while at an Instructor training course at the scouts ' Longbridge centre that they met the infamous Saun Baker and started to paddle with an informal group of Thames weir bashers . |
| 26 | And what is true for you would be true for every other supplier : they too will supply more than the natural level if the price on their island is above what they expected the average price to be , and less if it is below . |
| 27 | Delegates indicated that the next full CODESA meeting would be held in April ( rather than in March as originally intended ) , when they expected the working groups to have made substantive progress . |
| 28 | Already in October 1953 the British defence chiefs had warned that in a world war they expected the main and first Soviet nuclear assault to be directed against the British Isles . |
| 29 | Cynical almost to a man , they expected the worst , and had come to write their stories of poor abused children , evil parents , and the things that ‘ incomers ’ get up to in remote islands . |
| 30 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |