Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They fear damaging the child within their secure family relationship . |
| 2 | They discovered that , like tourists in a foreign country , deaf people may smile and appear to understand because they fear looking stupid . |
| 3 | Even in countries with laws that provide some degree of protection for marine mammals , fishermen are often reluctant to report incidental catches of dolphins or porpoises because they fear having restrictions placed on their use of set-nets . |
| 4 | If the problems they fear do arise they will stop sending buses on to the estate . |
| 5 | Many women from immigrant communities are hidden by their men , who may be entrepreneurs , and they fear offending both their men and the community by complaints about their work . |
| 6 | It generated a large volume of mail and telephone calls and frightened enough members into believing that the electoral consequences would be dire if they failed to support the president . |
| 7 | That the UFC so clearly mistrusted publication data has been discussed earlier , but they failed to support their preferred method of assessment — peer review — with any objective measures or guidelines . |
| 8 | Partly because of anguish that they failed to anticipate Ethiopia 's 1984–85 famine , and partly to cajole rich countries into giving lots of food , aid workers do tend to err on the side of exaggeration . |
| 9 | Though Celtic dominated for the next 15 minutes they failed to kill Dundee off and almost paid the penalty . |
| 10 | Why did no one raise the alarm when they failed to arrive at Charmouth ? |
| 11 | A Federal judge refused the plaintiffs ' request for a restraining order to open the late April pre-session meeting , saying they failed to demonstrate that real deliberations and decision making were taking place . |
| 12 | Though his batsmen dominated most of the final day , they failed to silence a grumbling chorus . |
| 13 | They failed to realise that the excursions , the painting , the model making and the drama were all necessary to generate interest and to build relationships and confidence . |
| 14 | What they failed to realise was that the rain had washed the topsoil down the slope and banked it up behind the gate so that when the Governor General and his entourage arrived nobody could open the gate . |
| 15 | They failed to persuade the electorate . |
| 16 | Although the Communists had greatly modified their policy they failed to persuade the leadership of the Labour Party to make any concessions on the United Front or affiliation proposals . |
| 17 | It is now also dawning on us that , while they may have dropped their hippie beads and trinkets , they failed to let go of their new world view . |
| 18 | Humbled at Sheffield Eagles on Sunday , in their first game after the defeat of Canberra Raiders , they failed to bounce back in the Lancashire Cup last night , losing to a disciplined Warrington side . |
| 19 | The final act of betrayal by William 's ministers was committed when they failed to call Parliament within twenty days of his death ( a violation of the Act of Security of 1696 ) , so that the Privy Council would have time to declare war on France without facing opposition from the Scottish Parliament . |
| 20 | In B. 's case , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff at a much earlier period — they carried out a dilation and curettage ( ‘ D. and C. procedure ’ ) at a time when the plaintiff 's mother was about five weeks pregnant with the plaintiff but did not know it , and they failed to carry out any pregnancy test before the D. and C. procedure . |
| 21 | Some of the shopkeepers , including Debbie Pitman , have issued writs against the developers , claiming that they failed to carry out agreements to promote the docks . |
| 22 | For example , if they failed to arrange for a minor repair in the science labs and a pupil was hurt as a result , they might be guilty of a safety offence . |
| 23 | They failed to agree on a design , but the ‘ modern ’ image of electric cooking , particularly among young housewives , led to a gradual expansion of cooker sales . |
| 24 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 25 | He suspected they were terrorists when the they failed to answer his challenge and he fired off a volley of shots from his semi-automatic rifle . |
| 26 | Their daughters found Charlie Fox , 63 , and wife Tess , 53 , shot at their home in Co Tyrone after they failed to answer the phone . |
| 27 | Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing . |
| 28 | They made three mistakes with these cattle — they let them in , they failed to test them , and they encouraged farmers like myself to buy the cattle , and all these moves were errors . |
| 29 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 30 | General Manuel Noriega , the man they failed to overthrow , is now turning his wrath to civilian opponents , saying he intends to present emergency legislation to purge the bureaucracy of ‘ treasonous ’ government employees who tacitly backed the uprising . |