Example sentences of "[vb pp] their [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the thieves confined their attention to the Early Cycladic display case , ignoring many other important works , suggests that they may have been stealing to order something which is a matter of concern to museum staff and archaeologists in Greece . |
| 2 | He and his four fellow sixth formers at Barnard Castle School have won their way to the regional final of a music contest in Newcastle . |
| 3 | Having won their votes from the gullible , as well as the dedicated , the republicans now show their utter contempt for democracy . |
| 4 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 5 | He and his partner , Gary Armstrong , playing together in a major international for the 25th time , plus a few other Scots , must have booked their places on the forthcoming British Lions tour to New Zealand . |
| 6 | She says , ‘ How am I going to get round all these people phoning me up saying , ‘ Why am I not getting calls , it 's all your fault ’ , you know , all the rest of it ’ , when they have n't diverted their telephone to the right extension number . |
| 7 | For thousands of years a few men have searched for these human fruits ; they have filled their minds with the lovely ideas and have taken up their long search and watch on the lonely shore of the other world . |
| 8 | But the caution of other princes may not have blinded their followers to the possible propaganda value of the Laudes . |
| 9 | The bridges , they say , have not been painted regularly and this penny-pinching has exposed their steelwork to the corroding effects of salt , pollution , water and debris . |
| 10 | Repeal feminists justified their entry into the political arena on the grounds that the issues raised by the acts touched on all the great trusts of their womanhood — the questions of virtue , purity , decency and social welfare . |
| 11 | Cleo had never , to her knowledge , seen a ghost , although she had often sensed their presence in the shadowed , tragedy-haunted alleys of the Burrows . |
| 12 | The average cost per square foot provided here are national averages based on actual costs incurred by clients of leading package supplier Design and Materials Ltd , all of whom have completed their homes in the past six months . |
| 13 | An Estonian history professor , Arnold Palm , said Balts regarded their status within the Soviet Union as ‘ political , not juridical ’ , and ‘ by no means definitely established ’ . |
| 14 | European Community foreign ministers have recalled their ambassadors from the Yugoslav capital , Belgrade and demanded the withdrawal of their occupying forces in Bosnia-Herzogovina . |
| 15 | In one participating practice one general practitioner declined to take part in the study and a further three were excluded — two because they had joined their practices within the previous six months and one because he left the practice during the study . |
| 16 | Notably absent from this taxonomy is any reference to the socio-political context — somewhat of a surprise given their reference to the changing direction of the ‘ political winds ’ in the 1981 coal strike . |
| 17 | Given their experience of the remote jargon of their teacher training , and of the demonstrable lack of impact of the pundits on education , as well as their weariness and preoccupation , it is entirely understandable that teachers should be turned off ideas at least as much in 1989 as they were twenty-five years ago : understandable but a mistake , as I am trying to argue . |
| 18 | It might be thought that , given their aversion to the whole terrain of culture , antiracists are generally immune to the kinds of criticisms set out above . |
| 19 | Weak or not , in her opinion men should be given their rights as the dominant sex . |
| 20 | They had not yet given their opinion to the present proposal — given outline permission by East Hampshire District council 's northern area planning sub-committee on March 24th — because the plans had at that stage only been submitted in outline . |
| 21 | However , when government and international planning agencies have turned their attention to the specific problem of " development for women " , it has been almost exclusively in terms of population control . |
| 22 | Mrs Vince and her computer analyst husband , from Grimsby , Humberside , have visited their babies in the neonatal unit . |
| 23 | Michael Jackson , Ringo Starr and Madonna have already lent their voices to the popular cartoon series . |
| 24 | Having made sure students have written their name in the appropriate space , at the top of the paper , collect in all the papers which are then ready to mark . |
| 25 | These two emerging types of household have traditionally sought their housing in the rented sector , both public and private . |
| 26 | LOUIS DE POORTERE have moved their offices from the old factory complex in Warwick to smart new offices in Leamington Spa . |
| 27 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 28 | The great majority of practitioners proclaimed their belief in the only way they could — through sound classroom practice . |
| 29 | Furthermore , some liberals had pushed their rationalizing of the Christian faith to the extreme point where it was fashionable to argue that ‘ God is dead ’ and that the only truly Christian thing to do was to abandon the churches altogether . |
| 30 | I think if anything it 's more likely that what we 'll have at Oxford is some extremely tough women , because these are women who have made their way through the educational system and are tough cookies . |