Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Astronomers have long suspected that flares also produce neutrons that reach the Earth 's orbit , but they lacked the instruments needed to detect them . |
| 2 | But , Vinny Samways apart , they lacked the resources to overcome a Forest side , who gradually looked more like the team we know they can be — one which has won this competition in its various forms twice in the past four years . |
| 3 | The EP was ‘ brought in ’ in response to the teachers ' perception that they lacked the skills to manage George 's behaviour . |
| 4 | The heterostracans were associated with the hagfishes , chiefly because they lacked the specializations of the nasohypophysial opening and because they have a single branchial opening ( see below ) . |
| 5 | Once again , however , he discovered he had struck a chord with ordinary people , people who had felt they were unfit to pass judgement on modern buildings because they lacked the qualifications . |
| 6 | I took a position on the edge of one of the bridges across the Seine and told , in halting fashion , stories about forests so high they pierced the clouds . |
| 7 | They camouflaged the vehicles in a wadi and dispersed in search of shade and some sleep . |
| 8 | They cultivated the virtues of hard work , celebrated the advantages of competition and the accessibility of success for any able and determined pupil , and efficiently pursued victory in the examination system . |
| 9 | Beyond that , the ITA was influenced by the existing configuration of franchise holders , by new applicants ' promises and broadcasting talent , by their performance at interview and the extent to which they met the conditions of regionalism and financial soundness . |
| 10 | These areas would also qualify under Article 3(4) providing they met the criteria . |
| 11 | At the request of the salon 's owner they met the girls not at the salon but in a hotel nearby . |
| 12 | They failed to make anything like the sort of headway the following day when they met the Wallabies in the rain at Newlands . |
| 13 | That evening , they met the men at eight o'clock , all parties quite well oiled from the off . |
| 14 | They expected the angels to come down and join battle with them — ‘ the sons of light ’ — against their enemies — ‘ the sons of darkness ’ — and to give them victory over all other peoples . |
| 15 | It was n't New York ; it was n't the Florida Keys , but they expected the standards of those places . |
| 16 | They expanded the shipyards and started engineering works . |
| 17 | But er to their credit er they got the contractors in and they commenced by putting up new pillars and new roofing structures and it took them about twelve months I think to actually build a new machine shop . |
| 18 | They got the jackets off , they did the job , they laid it out for us . |
| 19 | God knows where they got the bayonets . |
| 20 | Yeah , erm , I mean , I think , what you 've , what you 've actually done is identified quite a lot more areas than they , they had four , which which they did in in some detail , and they got the stories classified , erm , what you 've actually thought of , is is far more areas , which I think 's good , erm , and maybe other areas to consider as well . |
| 21 | If you , i i they , they got the brochures in A T Mays . |
| 22 | They got the losers ' medals , in the end , though someone at the FA should get round to re-naming them the runners-up medals . |
| 23 | I would of thought they 'd have come and said to you , you know , as soon they got the results say the news is this . |
| 24 | They got the verbals . |
| 25 | About 1 pm they got the signals and moved round the curve into Northgate tunnel and headed for Llandudno . |
| 26 | they got the police , but , I mean the police say er yeah we 're , we 'll probably know who 's done it , which they do do n't they ? |
| 27 | And then they got the police chasing them . |
| 28 | And out of that we paid half a crown ou in every guinea to the association because they got the jobs for us . |
| 29 | They lived the lives of the folk among whom they worked ; and this may have helped many of them to make real contact with their parishioners . |
| 30 | The Inklings , centred on war-time and post-war Oxford , were such a group : they were dedicated to a revival of Christianity and to literary story-telling , and they engendered the novels and polemics of C. S. Lewis and Tolkien 's huge romance The Lord of the Rings ( 1954–5 ) . |