Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] their [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barth and Brunner moved on from that position and came to focus their attention on the re-working and re-stating of the main classical Christian doctrines , especially of christology , in which they believed the meaning and content of the revelation was explicated . |
| 2 | The superintendent 's report asserted that though prostitutes did ply their calling on the common they conducted themselves in an orderly manner , as did large numbers of respectable , well-dressed courting couples who ‘ roamed about the place after dark caressing each other ’ . |
| 3 | This group preferred to focus their work on the myth of legal certainty and to challenge the idea of legal formalism by undermining the conception of the judicial process implicit in the case method . |
| 4 | The most notorious of those centred on an incident in December 1982 when two unarmed members of the Republican paramilitary organisation , the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) , were shot dead after police officers had stopped their car on the edge of Armagh . |
| 5 | Certainly these two had made their mark on the ever-widening fields of botany and horticulture when John Bartram wrote his first letter to Philip Miller on 20 April 1755 : |
| 6 | When they reached port and had sold their catch on the market , radio-activity was discovered all over ship , crew and catch . |
| 7 | Thus , natural justice has been held to be applicable to cases of disciplinary action within a university and to expulsion for failure in examinations , although in the latter case the examiners had based their decision on the personal attributes of the candidate as well as exam marks . |
| 8 | Earlier on , the band had proved their worth on the college snooker table — much to the dismay of the Students ' Union security staff , who obviously feared for the state of the green baize — and drummer Steve Goodwin showed a ruthless streak on the pinball machine . |
| 9 | Earlier on , the band had proved their worth on the college snooker table — much to the dismay of the Students ' Union security staff , who obviously feared for the state of the green baize — and drummer Steve Goodwin showed a ruthless streak on the pinball machine . |
| 10 | I once watched a television documentary about St Kilda , during which they interviewed some of the few people living who had been born and had spent their youth on the island . |
| 11 | Then she remembered the car that had interrupted their dinner on the terrace . |
| 12 | The German soldiers — who had learned their fighting on the Russian Front , at Monte Cassino and through the hedgerows of Normandy — had proved a match for the guerrillas , and it was only the indifference and boredom of the French public to a war which proved astronomically expensive in financial and human terms which led the French government to seek a political settlement . |
| 13 | He said that he respected the views of his colleagues at SO , but added that they obviously had taken their decision on the information they had , while the SSO was still in the process of getting information from the management about the proposal . |
| 14 | A loss of compression on both cylinders of the Volvo Penta MD7a — plus some very black sump oil — meant that something was happening inside the engine , and certainly 11 years had taken their toll on the paint on the outside of the block . |
| 15 | THE parents of zany comedian Vic Reeves yesterday denied they had put their house on the market to stop fans hounding them . |
| 16 | In the end , since there were no volunteers , the Magistrate was obliged to send the Eurasian women , half a dozen of whom had been quietly living in the Residency pantry and had spread their bedding on the pantry shelves . |
| 17 | The cold cut through him , summoned by the winds that had begun their journey on the far plains of Siberia and the Ural mountains and the great Kirgiz steppe . |
| 18 | In September 1915 , the UDC refused to accept their affiliation on the grounds that the UDC had less to gain from any activity the Fellowship might undertake on its behalf than it had to lose from being associated with the doctrine of non-resistance . |