Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] their [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 2 | In the following two years French governments repeatedly reaffirmed their support for the EDC , but did not submit the treaty for ratification . |
| 3 | MINISTERS also published their plans for the ‘ cabling of Britain ’ last week . |
| 4 | They then reached their target for the loss of three wickets . |
| 5 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |