Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] their [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hunger strike was interpreted in some quarters as an attempt by the RAF prisoners to increase their influence on the command structure outside prison . |
| 2 | This causes further tension if disgruntled clients vent their anger on the advice worker . |
| 3 | Their choices follow : Lunn Poly 's marketing director Peter Rothwell observed that as a rule the staff in their 505 shops base their selling on the answers given by the customer in a questionnaire , to prevent mismatches between customers and the holidays they took , but he nevertheless felt safe in saying that two young couples , a bit adventurous , would do well if they invested in an ILG Drive Europe holiday along the west coast of France to Biarritz , good countryside and a nice old town , accommodation at the Mer et Golf apartments , two weeks in all with ferry and accommodation included for £255 each . |
| 4 | LEGAL peers renewed their attack on the Government 's plans to shake up the legal profession yesterday , when the Courts and Legal Services Bill had its second reading in the Lords . |
| 5 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
| 6 | Even Wilbye did not disdain specific Italian models ; his ‘ Lady , your words do spite me ’ takes off from Ferrabosco 's ‘ Donna se voi m'odiate ’ which had appeared in Musica Transalpina as ‘ Lady , if you so spite me ’ : and once more the English monosyllables leave their stamp on the music . |
| 7 | Fighting continued around Sarajevo , Bihac and Goradze and in various areas of northern Bosnia-Hercegovina , while in the south Bosnian Croatians consolidated their hold on the area they had named the Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosna [ see p. 39012 ] . |
| 8 | Australians made their mark on the 1990 tournament statistics of both the European and USPGA Tours . |
| 9 | Realizing there was nowhere to run in time , the Marines concentrated their fire on the crouching figures behind the guns , but they were too well protected . |
| 10 | Among the companies developing their business on the technology are Celgene Corporation of Warren , New Jersey , and Sepracor of Marlborough , Massachusetts . |
| 11 | Intermittent war rages across Ulthuan once more as the Dark Elves consolidate their hold on the northern lands . |
| 12 | Most accounts assume it 's a director 's medium , in which the writer merely provides raw material and the producer a certain amount of logistical backup , enabling directors to put their vision on the screen . |
| 13 | Sensing the dangers of such rivalry , the Communists intensified their attack on the ILP , going so far as to declare that disaffiliation was but a temporary manoeuvre . |
| 14 | The reformers argue their case on the assumption that voting behaviour experienced under the current mode of election would most likely continue under a new mode : this is , as Geoffrey Alderman has pointed out , a most unlikely hypothesis . |
| 15 | He was a hero of the old style , whose life and deeds left their mark on the tide of human history and became the inspiration of a whole nation . |
| 16 | Both these underminings have their impact on the life of reason , and how we view it . |
| 17 | With the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill still bogged down in its 13th day in committee , the back-bench loyalists vented their anger on the Tory rebels . |
| 18 | Whether handing over stretches , or allowing light railway lines to be built alongside BR lines , it insists on running special training programmes for the LRT workers to ensure their security on the track . |
| 19 | But political conditions favoured Lutheranism more than Calvinism and gave free scope to Lutheran composers to develop their church-music on the basis of hymnody , with such a publisher as Georg Rhaw , a former cantor of the Thomasschule at Leipzig , to encourage them . |
| 20 | After ten years building warehouses , they moved into high-rise development in 1965 , and then spent the next ten years making their mark on the Toronto skyline . |
| 21 | Some individualists defend their view on the grounds that it not only provides simpler , more detailed and more perspicuous explanations than its rival , but that it is also morally superior to holism . |
| 22 | In the United Kingdom , users and providers focus their attention on the spending departments in Whitehall . |
| 23 | Just in case the sea cadets trained their gun on the river . |
| 24 | Although points were accrued only from staged ‘ specials ’ — and not from the mind and backside-numbing slogs in between — neither mode was immune from punctures , broken suspension arms or getting lost while the conditions took their toll on the spirit and sprocket alike , tempers fraying as frequently as fan-belts . |
| 25 | The cold , rainy conditions took their toll on the competitors at the Longfield Road Stadium and three race leaders were forced to throw in the towel . |
| 26 | Liberal theories centre their attention on the almost free-floating power of the Commons , whereas liberal-democratic accounts by-pass the significance of the Commons in order to place a twin emphasis on the government ( the Cabinet and the Prime Minister ) and the people in special relationship each to the other . |
| 27 | The problem with environmental legislation of every kind is that , while we all applaud the intentions , we know automatically that the large-scale offenders have their own scientists , barristers , public-relations campaigns and representation in the House of Lords , that government inspectorates are hopelessly understaffed , and that consequently , at a local level , the enforcers concentrate their attention on the small fry who lack the time and resources to answer back . |
| 28 | On a line like Stratford to Leamington Spa in Warwickshire more than 80 per cent of the passengers continue their journey on the main network . |
| 29 | Campese will be 32 when the Wallabies lay their crown on the line in South Africa and coach Bob Dwyer is beginning to believe in miracles . |
| 30 | However , several respondents mentioned their dependence on the ritual aspect of their heroin use . |