Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun sg] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employees are accepting their fate with the usual mix of bitterness and resignation . |
| 2 | It 's 11 years since Big Country announced their arrival with the bracing singles Harvest Home , Fields Of Fire , In A Big Country and Chance . |
| 3 | They resigned themselves to the Roman presence in their country , made their peace with the Roman authorities . |
| 4 | Edgar Dale stressed the ‘ narrow range of themes ’ in motion pictures and condemned their preoccupation with the rich and criminal . |
| 5 | To ease the changeover , the Membership Working Party had recommended that the September Medau News feature an article about Membership which would particularly thank group secretaries , who we would like to call class secretaries in future , for all their past efforts and seek their co-operation with the new system . |
| 6 | The metaphysical poets of the 17th century were rarely interested in pastoral as a game and preferred to move on to a more realistic way of expressing their discontentment with the mercantile age they lived in . |
| 7 | Price and Hall then worked their double act for Tynemouth again and opened their account with the latter chipping over onrushing goalkeeper Lee . |
| 8 | Furthermore the deputy heads were expected to discuss their work with the head teacher , and a visit by two members of the LEA 's advisory service was intended to provide an opportunity for the head to ‘ account ’ to his peers . |
| 9 | The Unionists would hope to discuss their blueprint with the other parties , in bilateral talks , and then take their conclusions to the two governments . |
| 10 | They expressed their fury with the godly in lewd ballads that echo through Underdown 's story . |
| 11 | The ministers expressed their solidarity with the Venezuelan government , which survived a coup attempt in February [ see pp. 38759-60 ] . |
| 12 | In return for ‘ visible progress ’ towards disbanding the Honduran-based contras by the end of the year , the Sandinistas will offer to use their influence with the leftwing rebels of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) to halt the fighting in El Salvador . |
| 13 | Negotiations were opened with the Prime Minister ( Chand ) on April 15 , but the parties displayed their discontent with the slow progress by sending only junior officials to the meeting . |
| 14 | Such students , it was said , would listen with mingled pleasure and wonder to the professor 's lectures and would perform their task with the greatest cheerfulness . |
| 15 | I encourage other classical homœopaths to submit their work with the fifth millesimals for future publication and discussion in Homœotherapy . |
| 16 | Traditional tribespeople live their whole lives in this rich , green cocoon , gathering food and medicines and sharing their habitat with the weird and the wonderful . |
| 17 | De Gaulle 's letters in the months before his return stressed that he would take no further initiatives until the French people had demonstrated their disgust with the existing regime and their desire for a radical change . |
| 18 | As part of this study , it was additionally possible to investigate ( a ) a variety of domain-specific dictionaries and compare their performance with the general dictionary , and ( b ) the extent to which collocations compiled from one domain could contribute to the recognition of text from another . |
| 19 | Many of the chief executives of local authorities are solicitors and often started their training with the local authority . |
| 20 | So a wild horse will learn to ask for food in the same way as a domestic horse that it may be stabled with , and older foals learn to copy their mothers , and demand their oats with the same imperious neigh . |
| 21 | Laches could amount to bad faith and , in any case , the longer the time lag the greater the likelihood that the partners will , even inadvertently , do some act which affirms their partnership with the offending partner and which might raise an estoppel to prevent their proceeding with his expulsion . |
| 22 | they cease to hold their employment with the Regional Council by reason of voluntary severance , or |
| 23 | they cease to hold their employment with the Regional Council in the interests of the efficient exercise of the Council 's functions . |
| 24 | The artists were left in the courtyard , where they stood clutching their equipment with the anxious , uncertain air of a group of refugees . |
| 25 | The Soviet military presence in Cuba was a symbol of Cold War superpower tensions which reached their height with the Cuban missile crisis in August-November 1962 . |
| 26 | Instead of comparing their offer with the normal rate , Clydesdale have used the business rate — paid by guests who stay mid-week and do n't expect to book and pay in advance . |
| 27 | The shepherd ‘ pulls ’ the wool from his ‘ pretty lambs ’ , an experience which I imagine would not be too pleasant for the creatures but to him it is as if the sheep offer their wool with the same eagerness as he offers his gifts . |
| 28 | These verbs are of great interest for the present study because , unlike may , can , shall , will and must , they can shift from the bare to the to infinitive , according to the meaning they express in discourse , a fact which lends confirmation to the hypothesis that it is the meaning of the modals which explains their use with the bare infinitive . |
| 29 | The content and style of these honours degrees result from a recent restructuring to maintain their compatability with the wide range of career areas open to physics graduates . |
| 30 | The loss of innocence marred their communion with the divine love , and terror entered their hearts as they were cast off from the sustaining life of God . |