Example sentences of "in their [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their four meetings she had never questioned him about his job , had seldom mentioned the power station except , as on this afternoon , to complain half seriously that it spoilt the view . |
| 2 | Under succeeding Labour governments in the 1960s demands for planning became more obtrusive in political rhetoric and in their practical aspects they involved the promotion of industrial reconstruction whether through mergers in the private sector or yet more reorganisation within the nationalised industries . |
| 3 | In their own refectories they ate a ceramic-reinforced , drug-laden booster diet in silence , ending with a prayer recited by an older initiate . |
| 4 | The Normans were ruthless conquerors , but in their own domains they knew what to preserve ; and Palermo remained , like London , the most populous and prosperous city of its region . |
| 5 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 6 | In their later writings they had been forced to acknowledge , in the light of much critical evidence , that their biologically determined criminal was only one of a variety of types : their theory had become eclectic and multi-factorial . |
| 7 | And the reason why the Greeks should have needed such consolation is that in their Dionysiac ecstasies they had looked into the painful essence of life . |