Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Last night , when the 5ft 9in Alton Byrd took a rest the 6ft 8in Alan Cunningham took over as their playmaking guard . |
2 | None the less , irrespective of what their position might be , modern anthropology would reject the view that the progress of technology is totally irreversible , although the sequence of technological progress Marx and Engels took over from their anthropological sources is still , by and large , acceptable . |
3 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
4 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
5 | Boosted by the appearance of Chris Wilkinson , who had just returned home after gruelling 5 month tour of the Far East and Australasia , Hampshire went on to their historical achievement with some sterling doubles ' performances by the whole team . |
6 | The Glen came down from their right turgid and fast , shut in by hills on either side , round the rim of the Cheviots and the great curving flank of Yeavering Bell , and across their front to empty itself into the Till . |
7 | But old timers fear a return to the violent , drunken days that saw Wild Bill Hickok gunned down in their local saloon . |
8 | Charles and Di flew off for their third honeymoon this week . |
9 | Wednesday had David Hirst sent off in their 3–1 UEFA Cup reverse in Kaiserslautern a fortnight ago and manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ We felt unjustly treated after the first game , but tonight it was very fair and they deserved to go through . |
10 | The pace the pattern was set seconds later , as Oxford roared back with their first attack . |
11 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
12 | Certainly — she hoped — not Luke himself , and while her acquaintance with Florian Jones went back to their high-school days in South Africa , she knew he was impervious to anything that did not affect him directly . |
13 | And the students wanted to see how Lennox Lewis stood up to their intellectual punches . |
14 | And it came as no surprise when Saints ' strong-running second row Chris Joynt touched down for their fourth and final try in the dying seconds . |
15 | Pascal , Butler and Newman pointed out in their different ways that religious belief can be endangered by too much evidence for the existence of God — evidence that amounts to proof . |
16 | Gloucester came back to their best and pulled level with a try from Simon Morris . |
17 | Glasgow , Liverpool , Newcastle and Leeds pressed on with their extensive highway systems , but other cities abandoned them and by the mid-1970s an urban road policy in the context of an explicit town planning framework was stood on its head . |
18 | And with seven and a half minutes of injury time Milton hung on to their slender lead ; final score here at Bishops Cleve was Bishops Cleve nil , Milton United one . |
19 | Leeds broke out of their defensive cocoon midway through the first half for Jones to win the match by meeting Mike Whitlow 's centre from the left at the near post and flicking it across Phil Parkes into the opposite corner . |