Example sentences of "they [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They flung the ball wide down the right , defenders raced in to support and in a sequence far too rapid for Dave Seaman 's comfort , Brett Angell and Ian McInerney contrived four chances . |
| 2 | In Piagetian terms they assimilated the language to what they knew , yet managed to preserve at least part of the meaning . |
| 3 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 4 | The feminists had marched in thousands when David Laing MP , in his maiden speech , urged married women to give up their jobs because ‘ there is so much to do at home ’ ; they sabotaged a cricket pitch ( cricket being ‘ male idleness elevated into a religion ’ ) etching into the grass with acid their crudest symbol : a round-cornered diamond to represent a vulva , with a large clitoris and no opening . |
| 5 | They inserted a truncheon into his anus . |
| 6 | The weavers valued them more highly , however , and responded with a fourteen-week strike during which they inserted a notice in the Ipswich Journal . |
| 7 | They inserted the sponge . |
| 8 | They lacked a dimension , |
| 9 | Are many of our women politicians the little girls who refused to recognise the unwelcome fact that they lacked a penis and , defiantly rebellious , exaggerated their masculinity … ? |
| 10 | Great passing ; good running , but they lacked a knockout punch . |
| 11 | Astronomers have long suspected that flares also produce neutrons that reach the Earth 's orbit , but they lacked the instruments needed to detect them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There were minor differences in the arrangement of the hand-rails , they lacked the loop at the end of the dash top rail and there were typical Brush brackets supporting the stair landings . |
| 14 | The cities I had seen in England and France left me unmoved ; their crowds had no interest for me : they lacked the colour and variety for which I craved . |
| 15 | Because they lacked the capacity for complete cultural and political hegemony , he argues , not all elements in the movement were assimilated . |
| 16 | The EP was ‘ brought in ’ in response to the teachers ' perception that they lacked the skills to manage George 's behaviour . |
| 17 | Orient , like Rovers promoted from the Fourth Division last May , made few telling incursions into the penalty area where they lacked the pace of the home team 's Malkin and Morrissey , though their approach work was neat enough . |
| 18 | Much of this public criticism directed at practitioners , often reinforced and fuelled by the reports themselves , is that these tragedies and scandals have arisen because practitioners ‘ failed ’ , in part , because they lacked the knowledge about child abuse which a thorough grounding in the research and its findings would have given them . |
| 19 | On average they had only five or six peasant households at their disposal , and since they lacked the capital , the expertise , and the time to raise peasant productivity , the exactions they made were onerous . |
| 20 | Many old brokers were unable to become independent advisers because they lacked the expertise and resources to win authorisation . |
| 21 | If the Situationist project is flawed , as I believe it is , it is not because antecedent theories of libertarians , Marxists and Council Communists are ignored by them , but rather because they lacked the will to build on this tradition a systematic utopianism consisting of critique and plausible projections into the future . |
| 22 | X-ray fibre diffraction data had been obtained for both the A and B forms of DNA by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins at King 's College , London , but they lacked the phase data necessary to solve the structure . |
| 23 | Those whom they encountered were for the most part leading precarious lives ; they lacked the leisure , the mental energy , even the vocabulary , for speculation about the great issues of heaven and hell , death and judgement . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They transgressed fixity not only because they were without fixed abode , but also because they lacked the identity which , in a hierarchical society , was essentially conferred by one 's place in that society . |
| 27 | Propaganda could be used to undermine their subjects ' faith in their legitimacy , while a war of successful raids ( or chevauchèes ) might shake that confidence yet further by showing that , as kings , they lacked the power to fulfil one of their prime roles , the defence of their people against the English . |
| 28 | This resulted in the children 's department undertaking general family case work and finding they lacked the power to provide much constructive help in many cases . |
| 29 | World markets dominated their economies , and they lacked the means for independent national economic development . |
| 30 | The visitors had by far the better chances in the second period but they lacked the confidence to take them . |