Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chemists encouraged people to have fun in the sun while protecting their skin from the harsh rays which can prove dangerous . |
| 2 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
| 3 | However existing members of a scheme prior to the change taking effect ( i.e. 1 June 1989 ) are not affected and are still entitled to defer their pension under the old rules , provided their employer is agreeable . |
| 4 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 5 | Struggling in the set-pieces , Scotland maintained their challenge through the superb play of the loose forwards , especially Rob Wainwright . |
| 6 | They base their prognosis on the aggressive new product development and marketing that has been Cadbury 's hallmark in recent years . |
| 7 | Typically organisations require employees to obtain two or three estimates and base their payment on the lowest one . |
| 8 | And although the majority of materialist philosophers base their belief in the neurophysiological theory of perception on arguments rather than observations , they are , nevertheless , greatly influenced by the apparent successes of neurophysiology . |
| 9 | After Adelaide , Bodyline was not exploited with quite the same intensity , but the crowds retained their fury at the mere sight of a ‘ bumper ’ . |
| 10 | Inverleith retained their place in the top flight with a dramatic 7-6 victory over Touche Ross in the final game . |
| 11 | In the Berne elections on April 29 , 1990 , the coalition parties retained their domination of the grand council . |
| 12 | They did n't appear to mind me playing a double game , allying with each in turn , then becoming their opponent at the next round . |
| 13 | Some place their emphasis upon the transcendent otherness of God and the traditional ‘ good ’ music which expresses it . |
| 14 | For a while they just stood there , staring down at the boar , satisfying their curiosity after the brief and distant glimpses that they 'd had on the hunt . |
| 15 | The shadow social security secretary , Donald Dewar , and Labour 's Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , described their anger at the worsening situation when unveiling a rolling campaign aimed at highlighting the rising level of poverty across Scotland . |
| 16 | Editor , — David E Mutton and colleagues report their analysis of the national Down 's syndrome register for 1989–91 . |
| 17 | Druids said they would pursue their case to the European Court against English Heritage 's decision to close Stonehenge again next year at the summer solstice . |
| 18 | The period between May 1989 and February 1990 was dominated by the death in early June 1989 of the spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini [ see pp. 36724-25 ] , and the struggle between " radical " and " pragmatist " factions within the Islamic regime and in the Majlis ( Parliament ) to establish their leadership in the post-Khomeini era . |
| 19 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 20 | Those in the lower group of six would play a total of 36 matches with the first two teams keeping their place in the Premier Division while the rest would be relegated in 1994 . |
| 21 | Some small successes had already been achieved ; for example , by 1880 foreigners had agreed to entrust their mail to the Japanese postal system . |
| 22 | Never has their attack on the Labour Party been so comprehensive . |
| 23 | Will the Lord President urge the security services to concentrate their search for the alleged theft of information from hon. Members on the organisations that regularly spy on hon. Members , including the organisation that last week published a ludicrous volume full of slanders and innuendos about hon. Members ? |
| 24 | It now seems more fruitful to many political scientists and sociologists to concentrate their analysis upon the political structure and processes of change within fairly well defined types of political system — tribal societies , city-states , bureaucratic empires and other imperial regimes , absolutist states , socialist or capitalist industrial states , and so on — without attempting to locate them in some all-embracing historical scheme . |
| 25 | The fact that the thieves confined their attention to the Early Cycladic display case , ignoring many other important works , suggests that they may have been stealing to order something which is a matter of concern to museum staff and archaeologists in Greece . |
| 26 | We can certainly agree that political sociologists have not confined their attention to the narrower governmental sphere or believed that this constitutes a part ( albeit an important part ) of the world of politics . |
| 27 | Oxford United hope to secure their place in the second round of the Coca Cola Cup tonight . |
| 28 | It was Corrary who pointed , and drew their gaze to the dark shadow on the water . |
| 29 | Whether they want to go or not , they take their turn and the employer had to pay a percentage into the pool what those men earned , so when those men had n't work at all they drew their money from the National Dock Labour Board . |
| 30 | He let them study the map a while , accustoming themselves once again to its details , then drew their attention to the large red-shaded area to the bottom left of the map . |