Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun pl] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trend for suburban dwelling was set by the wealthy , and planned suburbs appeared in order to meet their needs in the 1860s . |
| 2 | The work also voiced taboos and silenced areas in an attempt to make visible shared and common experiences , revealing their roots in the social and cultural rather than the personal . |
| 3 | They still build their houses in the arc-like forms , they say , of the ships which once brought them , and their funeral rites , which for their nobility are unequalled for extravagance , are intended to launch the souls of the dead back to the stars of their origins . |
| 4 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 5 | He admitted last night : ‘ I ca n't wait for the players to find their feet in the Premier League . ’ |
| 6 | Besides the more obvious areas for employment , actuaries are to be found applying their skills in the academic world , in computer development , operational research and as business consultants . |
| 7 | Many top speedway riders will be pitting their skills in the National motor cycle grass track meeting . |
| 8 | The ratchet , discussed earlier , is nearly always geared to profit and so if the managers take out too much in the early days , they may adversely affect their interests in the medium term . |
| 9 | Eventually he decided to give them their marching orders , and one spring , just before the birds were due to arrive , he nailed wire netting and a large dustbin bag along the eaves to stop them building their nests in the usual place . |
| 10 | Will the Prime Minister now tell us whether he accepts that , in addition to the massive number of homes repossessed last year , a further 80,000 families are to lose their homes in the current year ? |
| 11 | Pitching their eighty-nine lodges on the river 's eastern bank , the people grazed their ponies in the westerly hills and cut new lodge poles which were to be dragged to the Crow country when seasoned . |
| 12 | They perceive their contributions in the broadest sense . |
| 13 | Even councils which modernised their trams in the 1930s , such as Glasgow and Leeds , abandoned them in the 1950s . |
| 14 | Car drivers are banned from using their cars in the capital one day each week — although many have circumvented the ban by purchasing a second car . |
| 15 | The distinct lozenges of mud have gone , worn down by the weather , but it is possible to see their outlines in the dissolving walls . |
| 16 | The average cost per square foot provided here are national averages based on actual costs incurred by clients of leading package supplier Design and Materials Ltd , all of whom have completed their homes in the past six months . |
| 17 | It had a painted chest of drawers and tiny wardrobe and she fell asleep enjoying their shapes in the fading light . |
| 18 | They laid their eggs in the central pool . |
| 19 | Until the 1980s , the majority of nationalist conservative and ultra-right elements in West Germany made their homes in the right wings of the mainstream conservative parties , the CDU and its Bavarian sister-party , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) . |
| 20 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |
| 21 | Mrs Vince and her computer analyst husband , from Grimsby , Humberside , have visited their babies in the neonatal unit . |
| 22 | Boxing was also the sport in which blacks first grew to prominence in Britain , though , of course , their presence was the result of the predilection of the wealthy to engage their interests in the noble art and therefore encourage the cross-fertilization between Britain and America . |
| 23 | Graham Stamper and Mick Jones scored their goals in the first half , after Dean Ashton had given the home side an early lead . |
| 24 | By law they have to ballot their members in the next couple of years on whether they can keep their political funds , through which they give money to the party . |
| 25 | Dismissing persistent rumours that Wall Street whizz Asher Edelman is the gallery 's money source , Salander identified their partners in the German venture as ‘ a group of Basque businessmen ’ who , he says , ‘ recommended ’ Berlin for a first European location . |
| 26 | Attempts by both India and China to open their economies in the 1980s have resulted in a tug-of-war between their economic liberals and economic conservatives , which shows every sign of ending either in stalemate or in a victory for the conservatives . |
| 27 | The students were being fed contradictory messages and did what they could to lead their lives in the best way possible , given deteriorating conditions and mounting ideological and political debates . |
| 28 | If I do n't see their names in the overnight declarations on Friday afternoon , I 'll be on the blower to the News of the World before you can say ‘ flagellation ’ , right ? |
| 29 | Finding out that I apparently could n't even remember their names in the right order rather spoilt the effect . |
| 30 | Now to many people community arts is a red rag to a bull because there is the feeling that a lot of these things start off quite splendidly as voluntary organizations , and suddenly they 've got their fingers in the public purse . |