Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] their [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trogus goes on to explain that a little later — that is about 390 B.C. — the Massaliotes emptied their treasure to ransom the Romans from the Gauls . |
| 2 | On Feb. 13 the Soviet Union and United States announced their intention to reduce the number of their troops stationed in Central Europe to 195,000 each , while the United States would be allowed to station an additional 30,000 troops in other European countries ( primarily Italy , Turkey and the United Kingdom ) . |
| 3 | In September 1944 the leaders of Belgium , Holland and Luxembourg declared their intention to form the Benelux customs union . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he intends to make to the Government of Israel following their decision to continue the closure of Bir Zeit university for a further three months . |
| 5 | It even seems to justify the way in which the United Nations has been hijacked by the United States and Britain to legitimise their decision to eliminate the Saddam Hussein regime . |
| 6 | They' refined their account to acknowledge the possibility of indirect control of the state by capitalists , taking account of the persistence of aristocratic and monarchical governments in late nineteenth-century Europe . |
| 7 | Both Cardinal Hume and the Archbishop of Canterbury declared their intention to fight the making of the film , and the Prime Minister declared that Thorsen would be ‘ a most unwelcome and undesirable visitor to these shores ’ . |