Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] their [noun pl] of the " in BNC.
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1 | Those who had attended informed their colleagues of the fact — and they took the hint . |
2 | The British had obviously decided to wash their hands of the whole affair . |
3 | Then cosmologists began to revise their estimates of the percentage of the Universe 's mass made up by ‘ dark matter ’ which could not be directly observed — including black holes and pulsars . |
4 | Yet the time may come when the unions will have expiated their follies of the sixties and seventies , partly through the rationalisation and mergers of the past decade , partly through reforms forced on them by changes in the law during the eighties , partly by a public rediscovery that trade unions are a necessary part of a free society . |
5 | The Government seem to have washed their hands of the problem : they are taking no responsibility for it , and that is not good enough . |
6 | And they knew that they had acquired their theories of the relation between schooling and life from their parents . |
7 | In recent decades historians have broadened the sources on which they rely as they have widened their views of the past — oral history , archaeology , art , and in the future data and other electronically-stored information will be included . |
8 | Both of them have published their accounts of the Shahs final day and their frequent meetings with him . |
9 | The two health authorities covering these areas have launched their versions of the Patient 's Charter . |
10 | The two health authorities covering these areas have launched their versions of the Patient 's Charter . |