Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Martin warned the jury to beware of having their judgement swayed by the unprecedented publicity that had already surrounded the case at local and national levels . |
| 2 | KINKY MACHINE ( below ) brassy rock tunesmiths , follow their support slots with the Manic Street Preachers with a run of pre-Christmas dates at . |
| 3 | KINKY MACHINE ( below ) , brassy rock tunesmiths , follow their support slots with the Manic Street Preachers with a run of pre-Christmas dates at . |
| 4 | Diet , general fitness , golfing psychology and sports injuries all feature among the discussion topics and have their part to play in the overall picture . |
| 5 | Although the writers discussed here have all turned their back on mimetic realism , they have not abandoned the issue of how their fiction relates to the external world . |
| 6 | In fact this put severe restrictions on the committee 's deliberations , and the chairman repeatedly had to advise counsel for both the GMC and the defence that it was not their function to comment on the relative merits or otherwise of alternative forms of medicine . |
| 7 | Too often these people are frustrated by their inability to communicate in the new language . |
| 8 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 9 | Many were already suffering from pellet wounds inflicted by the shotguns of Chuck 's hunters , and the last dregs of their resistance crumbled before the menacing line of armed men . |
| 10 | Their resistance lies in the tiny glandular hairs which cover the foliage of the wild potato , but not that of cultivated species . |
| 11 | This means that derivational arguments stand or fall by their plausibility according to the effective use of evidence ; advance in theory . |
| 12 | The presbytery also instructed their clerk to write to the Prime Minister , John Major , the Secretary of State for Scotland , Ian Lang , the local Member of Parliament , Jim Wallace , and the Member of the European Parliament , Winnie Ewing , asking for the law concerning child abuse to be reviewed as a matter of urgency . |
| 13 | SCOTTISH Tories , awaiting their election counts in the early hours of Friday , were prepared for the worst . |
| 14 | In making HIP allocations , will he take those matters into account as well as the efficiency with which those authorities use their stock and their willingness to co-operate with the private sector ? |
| 15 | The actual decision was given on the basis that applying s5 of the Partnership Act in the first case and the general law of agency in the second , the firms were liable on the undertakings because they were given by their partner/employee acting within the usual course of his business as a qualified solicitor . |
| 16 | WOMEN factory workers fighting for equal pension rights had their case referred to the European Court of Justice yesterday . |
| 17 | Their income rocketed with the Big Bang demand for specialists in sales , trading , research and corporate finance . |
| 18 | The Damiani family made their decision to leave in the third week of April after snipers in Tel Aviv began shooting into the centre of Jaffa , sending at least one bullet into David Damiani 's home . |
| 19 | Social services are standing by their decision to pay for the 14-year old to stay at his grandparents ' villa , but refused to talk about the inquiry . |
| 20 | trace their insect trails on the flat water . |
| 21 | The level of CO2 in their blood falls below the normal level , and this alters the pH ( acidity-alkalinity ) of the blood , producing a wide range of mental and physical symptoms . |
| 22 | There is provision for the GAL to be separately represented if their recommendation differs from the young person , and if they are of sufficient age and understanding to instruct the solicitor themselves ( the GAL will advise solicitors about this ) . |
| 23 | Blyth 's decision comes as a surprise because of their opposition to the pyramid during the Eighties , while Northallerton 's letter is indicative of their ambition to progress beyond the Northern League . |
| 24 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 25 | With all sense of distance blotted out by the night , their car slapped over the deserted tarmac . |
| 26 | A mother and her two children had to have a hospital check up after their car crashed into the central reservation on the A19 . |
| 27 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 28 | ALNWICK : Three members of the same family were badly hurt when their car crashed on the busy Peppermoor crossroads . |
| 29 | The women , who are twin sisters , were staying in a guest house at Wantage , their rent paid by the social services . |
| 30 | Three men held the yak 's head down with ropes , their weight pitted against the great muscles of its neck and shoulders as it threw its head about , crazy with the pain of the knife in its withers . |