Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , they rarely threatened to win the match , though Dave Kirkwood — one of four former Hearts players in the Airdrie ranks — missed the most clear-cut chance of the game in the closing minutes . |
| 2 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 3 | While negotiations for the lease of the building went on , members of the Society engaged on various fundraising schemes , and they slowly began to clear the shed , restore services , and start to lay track . |
| 4 | They only served to emphasise the power and toughness which was the man beneath the civilised veneer , and Fran shivered , wishing she had never started this by letting her emotions come to the surface . |
| 5 | Their solicitor told the court they only wanted to frighten the saboteur and they were sorry he 'd been injured . |
| 6 | ‘ The told me that they alone had cracked the system ; they said only they could fix up proper contracts with local authorities on behalf of their clients . |
| 7 | Spurs play their possesion futba which looks good but is not at all dangerous — when they had chances for breaks they just kept passing the ball instead of going for the fast break . |
| 8 | So many of that team got well over 10 years service that they just had to join the queue . |
| 9 | I 'd like to think it was my body they were after , but I suspect they just wanted to destroy the shirt . |
| 10 | After recently ditching their long-time manager ANTHONY BOGGIANO , they somehow managed to attract the attention of self-styled svengali SIMON NAPIER-BELL ( better known for managing MARC BOLAN and WHAM ! among others ) . |
| 11 | They soon had to leave the School Cottage where they had lived , but they were granted a payment of £5 for " the bath and fittings " left in the cottage , which was quickly rented out to provide a valuable £35 a year of extra income . |
| 12 | The proprietors of Elmfield House , Jim and Edith Lillie , were initially a little apprehensive about opening their much restored and much-cared for home to the public — but they soon came to appreciate the friendship and interest given to them by their visitors from all over the world . |
| 13 | Members were discouraged from bringing along a personal caddie and if they did they still had to pay the caddie master the fee he would have received , irrespective of whether there was a caddie available or not ! |
| 14 | Though the Dwarfs were forced to live in a virtual state of siege , they gradually managed to clear the Night Goblins and other evil creatures out of the upper levels . |
| 15 | As suggested in Chapter 1 , these measures were not , in themselves , particularly successful in reducing unemployment although they possibly helped to promote the housing boom of the mid- and late 1930s . |
| 16 | Glynn 's fax duly arrived and when it became apparent that the wiring was beyond the skills of a cack-handed caveman they promptly offered to collect the guitar ( I only live in Aberdeen ! ) , modify it and return it within a few working days . |
| 17 | This startling routine delighted the audience so much that they usually refused to let the show continue until an encore had been performed — often two . |
| 18 | They also wished to see the principle of popular election extended beyond Parliament , and suggested that magistrates and judges should be elected annually . |
| 19 | They also hoped to redress the balance of the problems caused by the Conservatives . |
| 20 | They also sought to turn the criticism on its head by offering Reagan as a ‘ citizen ’ candidate running against a seasoned and , by implication , tainted professional politician . |
| 21 | They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation . |
| 22 | They also agreed to relax the state of readiness of their forces and to reduce military exercises . |
| 23 | Concerns of this kind , as Pamyat' demonstrated , could sometimes take a xenophobic or anti-semitic form , but they also helped to provide the impetus behind a growing environmentalist movement centred around issues such as the pollution of Lake Baikal in Siberia and the defence of villages that had been declared ‘ perspectiveless ’ by central planners . |
| 24 | They also acted to decrease the woman 's coping skills , making her more likely to become depressed or a less sensitive parent when faced with social difficulties or a lack of marital support . |
| 25 | At the Lido they practically had to close the place . |
| 26 | Specifically , they probably decided to buy the freehold . |
| 27 | Although the concessions met the demands made at the start of an unprecedented national protest campaign on June 10 , they now failed to satisfy the opposition , who responded by continuing to call for Ratsiraka 's resignation . |
| 28 | The Judge told the pair that having chosen to become involved in the evil activities of the IRA they now had to pay the price of their folly while those who had sent them out remained at large . |
| 29 | The risk of litigation was pointed out , but the firm replied that they now intended to release the tenancy ‘ with or without the consent of the surviving partner ’ , and did so . |
| 30 | Not only did they disclaim any career but motherhood , they even began to question the need for the higher education itself . |