Example sentences of "and [verb] their [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human beings turned out to be more intelligent than dandelions and modified their behaviour to match the new circumstances . |
| 2 | Tonight , for the most part , Public Enemy gritted their teeth , kept well away from the fire and let their music do the talking . |
| 3 | Tonight , for the most part , Public Enemy gritted their teeth , kept well away from the fire and let their music do the talking . |
| 4 | The record industry , of course , runs on hyperbole , and Virgin Records , like any other , had a press office feeding stories to the music or national press when it profited them to do so , and doing their utmost to keep the press at bay when it did n't . |
| 5 | They were shopkeepers who sold medicines or cures and established their right to treat the sick during the plague . |
| 6 | He was like an animal , like the dogs with their bowls , snapping and bolting their food to prevent the others getting it . |
| 7 | Health professionals need to move beyond the traditional view of adoption as the province of social workers and recognise their responsibility to promote the wellbeing of everyone involved in the adoption process . |
| 8 | The small group of riders spied them and altered their course to meet the patrol . |
| 9 | This decision was immensely helpful to Jonathan Cape since it had been and remained their intention to publish the next two volumes of the Diaries and a further volume that related to Crossman 's earlier back-bench activities . |