Example sentences of "had [verb] their [noun sg] on the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 :
3 When they reached port and had sold their catch on the market , radio-activity was discovered all over ship , crew and catch .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Then she remembered the car that had interrupted their dinner on the terrace .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 THE parents of zany comedian Vic Reeves yesterday denied they had put their house on the market to stop fans hounding them .
13 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 .
14 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 .
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