Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their origins stem from France where old Mr Fauchon years ago told me his forebears were Huguenots , who fled their country from a small place bearing the family name of Fauchonville . |
| 2 | While Raisa chatted in Moscow and Gorbachev emphasised his commitment to reform , the Communist leaders in Moldavia fled their rostrum when nationalist demonstrators waved banners . |
| 3 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 4 | Thousands of Palestinians fled their jobs in Israel and returned home , denouncing the shootings as a massacre of innocents , and calling on Arabs to observe three black days of mourning . |
| 5 | The law is so rigorous and so thorough that it would be difficult to misunderstand the import of the statutory legislation which governs the property of the Palestinian Arabs who fled their homes in 1948 and who — by the same law — can not return . |
| 6 | East of the Oder-Neisse river , the Allies had agreed to place lands ‘ under Polish administration ’ and most Germans living there fled their homes , creating a daunting refugee problem in western Germany . |
| 7 | President Bush declared a state of emergency as up to a million people fled their homes . |
| 8 | If they strained their eyes they could make out the clusters of houses and farmyards that were Suardal to the north , the pencil-thin bars of smoke already rising from them and the meagre herds moving across the open country like ants . |
| 9 | The men strained their ears for continuing sounds of the ghostly train . |
| 10 | Guiding Lights was showing normal navigation lights but the pitch darkness made distance deceptive and the watchers ashore strained their ears for signs of shore contacts . |
| 11 | Before they started they unbuttoned their tunics . |
| 12 | Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals . |
| 13 | TV nutritionist Amanda Ursell analysed their diets and adjusted their eating patterns to healthier and lower-calories options . |
| 14 | The scientists analysed their crystal structure by measuring how the coccoliths scatter light rays and electrons and found that they all shared common features of crystal organisation throughout their history . |
| 15 | Caledor flew into a towering rage and dismissed their fears as groundless . |
| 16 | Arsenal could also have had a penalty when Campbell went crashing down as Forrest challenged him in the box for a Wright through-pass , but the referee dismissed their claims . |
| 17 | His team dismissed their opponents for a record low score . |
| 18 | The Court dismissed their appeal at first instance but they appealed ( see MS Fashions Ltd and Others v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA [ 1992 ] , The Times , 23 June ) . |
| 19 | The Special Commissioner dismissed their appeal , as did Mr Justice Millett in the High Court ( see ACCOUNTANCY , September 1991 , p 50 ) . |
| 20 | The six condemned to death , with another six who were sentenced to life imprisonment , went to the Supreme Court , whose five judges unanimously dismissed their appeals . |
| 21 | The judge dismissed their claim . |
| 22 | Many parents hardened their attitudes against Mr Patten two months ago , when he dismissed their protests against testing as ‘ Neanderthal ’ . |
| 23 | As with the blacks , sport for Jews became a possible way out of the dreadful circumstances which beset their lives . |
| 24 | Will he confirm that hoteliers and those who so successfully manage tourist attractions in Wales will not suffer the problems that beset their colleagues in England because of the Secretary of State for Employment who has suspended section 4 assistance ? |
| 25 | It was , indeed , with the object of getting over that difference that the Criminal Law Revision Committee ( Cmnd. 2977 ) proposed their clause 12(1) . |
| 26 | At the time that Salam and Weinberg proposed their theory , few people believed them , and particle accelerators were not powerful enough to reach the energies of 100 GeV required to produce real W , w , or Q particles . |
| 27 | 1.3. b ( v ) Institutions that listed their numbers of school- based inset days ranged from one College and two Polytechnics doing 40+ to 11 institutions doing no school-based work , and 12 who made no response to this question . |
| 28 | The students who , in the training trials , heard the buzz half a second before the shock , jerked their finger back more consistently than those who had had a longer gap between the buzz and the shock during training , and they did so much more markedly than those who heard the buzz at the time of the shock or after it ( see Fig. 24.1 ) . |
| 29 | They rallied their forces to resist it . |
| 30 | But the serrated gratings must have sufficiently broken the crust of the brick-broken mutilated plastimetal that covers a great deal of the world that is an eyeball , and little light yellow-green stubs poked through , cos the Sun was still up there , way up there , even though someone had devised a new kind of force of matter transference and was attempting to move the Sun to his laboratory-country where it would be used to grow humlants — in which the old human brain was to be stretched in durable fibrosity and connected inextricably to root and flower , making rings of energy that took their partners for a whaltz or a flexitrot and multiplied their species by being fried on a plasetal plate whose temperature was so great that they never actually touched it but skimmed over , coming off the other side as a more-than-when-they-started . |