Example sentences of "their [noun] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the church band — two clarionets , a serpent , a bassoon and an ill-tempered violoncello — brought much vigour to the services ; after the harmonies of King 's their enthusiasm fell stridently on the Rector 's ear . |
| 2 | Almost all wore skirts , make up and appeared to have had their hair done especially for the benefit of the cameras . |
| 3 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 4 | We have seen that the Stonors and their associates served together on the Commission of the Peace , and the records of proceedings before the justices of the peace , although few in number , show how important such a group of local men was , acting along with one or two professional lawyers . |
| 5 | And we know what the Iraqi government would like , which is the release of their money frozen here since the Gulf war . |
| 6 | Only 18 to 25 per cent of the survey sample relied on or had their income topped up by the then supplementary benefit . |
| 7 | The drapes were drawn over all the windows , the enormous marble-topped table that dominated the room lit by overhead lamps , the wash of their light thrown up on the six members , two of them women , sitting around it . |
| 8 | Gary and Bean were looking understandably nervous by now , their eyes fixed hypnotically on the ramp of the horse-box . |
| 9 | Unfortunately two anglers now had all their gear spread out amongst the greenery . |
| 10 | I feel that the PR team have their work cut out at the best of times without the likes of Mr. Wigmore and his cheap , sensationalist style of so-called journalism . |
| 11 | A group of reporters stood gossiping and smoking nearby , their shoes sunk deep into the muddy field , their faces reddened by the wind . |
| 12 | As young models , Liz and Vanessa become friends and then rivals , their lives linked inextricably over the years . |
| 13 | Many of the cahiers ( the statements of grievances and proposals for their rectification drawn up for the guidance of the States-General when it met in May 1789 ) proposed the building of public monuments to Louis XVI in recognition of his action in calling the States-General and thus restoring the ‘ liberties ’ of his people . |
| 14 | He says the security people had their attention drawn away from the closed circuit television system when they should be watching . |
| 15 | I mean , Americans drink it in martinis , the cocktail set love it ‘ pink ’ and a ‘ G&T ’ is still the preferred drink of the ‘ darling luvvy ’ classes as they bob up and down on their boats moored firmly in the sheltered dock of Liverpool Marina . |
| 16 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 17 | Getting closer we saw that the islands rose more than sheer , their bases eaten away by the sea . |
| 18 | The French gunners were masked by the rye , but some of their balls struck home in the waiting Dutch battalions . |
| 19 | Their colour gone now with the setting in of winter . |
| 20 | This is why comic picture-postcards of the time show people at the seaside , paddling in the sea with their trouser-legs rolled up to the knee , or little girls with their dresses tucked into their knickers . |
| 21 | Most important of all , back on the pitch I learnt which customers did n't pay their debts and so could never be allowed to have their names chalked up on the slate . |
| 22 | During January it also became clear that both Buchanan and , more especially , David Duke — the third Republican candidate and a former Ku Klux Klan leader — faced increasing difficulties in getting their names entered on to the Republican ballot papers in many states . |
| 23 | Perhaps only a minority would like to see their island taken over by the Miami exiles . |
| 24 | Some of these new ‘ leasows ’ were added to existing farms or smallholdings , but elsewhere in the parish entirely new units were created ; then from the reign of Elizabeth onwards poor families who wanted a little land to go with their cottages encroached further into the remaining woods and wastes . |
| 25 | Regional administrations would be set up , their members appointed indirectly by the local officials and councillors elected by universal suffrage . |
| 26 | The General Household Survey is a national representative continuous survey of UK households and their members carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) . |
| 27 | Previously the city soviets — their members drawn overwhelmingly from the CPSU — had effectively functioned according to directives from the city CPSU committees . |
| 28 | I keep coming across internal memoranda about which offices are to have their heating turned off during the morning and which during the afternoon . |
| 29 | I 'm even more disappointed in the conservatives , for not opposing it , I do n't object to their list of members being published , I do n't see that that would do any harm , as far as I 'm concerned , every employee could have their wages printed up on the wall . |
| 30 | Here lies the greatest pleasure of greenhouse gardening , since there is little to equal the satisfaction of raising most of your own plants from seeds and cuttings , watching them grow and develop until they fulfil their potential planted out in the garden . |