Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] their [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they are supposed to be arguing about the rider or scrawling their name on the walls , they sit quietly down and start replying to fan letters , or in Solowka 's case , it 's off with the flat-cap and out with the calculator . |
| 2 | It encourages individuals to make a personal pledge to change their lives in a way that minimises their impact on the environment — each of the eight pledges shown here will make a real difference . |
| 3 | War on Want are er for a long time have been the only probably the only erm that put their neck on the block as far as social and environmental aspects of the party go . |
| 4 | The salt itself , even at high dose ( 5% ) in my experience , has little effect on the flukes other than to weaken their hold on the fish . |
| 5 | All these books have strengths that justify their place on the library shelf and on every reading list on the history of seventeenth-century science . |
| 6 | After setting up and completing their work on the beaches , on 10 July , No 6 Beach Group was dissolved . |
| 7 | and snow their passion on the hills . |
| 8 | But the enormous contrast between relatively unbiased news on television and extreme pro-Conservative bias in the press would encourage Labour politicians to moderate their criticism of television and concentrate their attack on the press . |
| 9 | Typically organisations require employees to obtain two or three estimates and base their payment on the lowest one . |
| 10 | However , in this case , the crowd was angry that extra time was not going to be played and vented their fury on the pitch and the police rather than on one another . |
| 11 | The difficulty in mechanical engineering design is centred around the recognition of these different features and establishing their effect on the design constraints . |
| 12 | Since the great period of railway closures of the 1950s and '60s it is , of course , now possible to walk along many of the former track beds and appreciate their impact on the landscape . |
| 13 | Unless there is a real threat to personal safety , all those who deal directly with the public should wear a name badge and give their name on the telephone and in letters . |
| 14 | Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday . |
| 15 | It was only when they tensed , curling and tightening their grip on the floor , did he realise they were alive . |
| 16 | In fact they expected to meet with USL chairman Bob Kavner and lay their money on the table the week before Christmas , only to be caught off guard by the Novell announcement . |
| 17 | When the Penge route closed on 6 December 1933 , Nos. 1E , 2E and 3E were transferred to Penge depôt and took their place on the Crystal Palace route augmented service . |
| 18 | Political chaos was having the effect of making Elisabeth and Daniel take stock and order their time on the island particularly efficiently . |
| 19 | The Office of Fair Trading is investigating claims that the big tour-operators and their chain of travel agents are using their muscle to restrict customer choice and tighten their grip on the market . |
| 20 | The Office of Fair Trading is investigating claims that the big tour-operators and their chain of travel agents are using their muscle to restrict customer choice and tighten their grip on the market . |
| 21 | And if you had paper plates people put them down on the floor , inevitably , somebody got drunk and put their plate on the floor , they were probably thinking about something else , and then the beet juice or the goo or whatever , soaked through the paper plate and onto the carpet and you never , never got it out . |
| 22 | He also consulted protestant church leaders on the religious elements of the new constitution , a step unprecedented in catholic Ireland of his day , and gained their support on the basis of the recognition of their churches the constitution was to give . |
| 23 | No one in their right mind sleeps with a person once and sacrifices their career on the altar of one night 's pleasure . |
| 24 | They had moved their army south from Milfield yesterday , as soon as they were sure by what route the Scots were returning towards their own country , and chosen their position on the northern bank of the Glen water , a mile and more from its confluence with the Till . |
| 25 | The stoma care nurse encouraged him not to avoid foods but to monitor their effect on the colostomy action . |
| 26 | Spectra , supporting Motorola Inc' 68000 microprocessors at the target system end and Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstations at the host end , is designed to maximise host tool operations whilst minimising their dependence on the target system , with a host resident target manager controlling the debugging activity that would normally burden the target system . |
| 27 | Emma-Jane Mac had earlier given Coomes Bookmakers a chance to recoup money given in sponsorship when winning their contest on the 14-1 Everest Gringo . |
| 28 | These are often so important that they require the marketer to find direct means of dealing with them , so as to minimise their effect on the satisfaction of consumer demand . |