Example sentences of "in their [adj] [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their metaphorical indiscipline they had gained ‘ new status ’ and slipped across a boundary into marginality , for as Foucault ( 1977 : 25 ) has suggested , the idea of discipline revolves around control of the physical body and ‘ proceeds from the distribution of individuals in space … it is always the body that is at issue — the body and its forces , their utility and their docility , their distribution and their punishment ’ . |
| 2 | As I gained confidence in their genuine goodwill I found that my sense of humour returned and I enjoyed making them laugh . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This enquiry found that the airship trials had been unsatisfactory and in their final report they stated that ‘ … no Government department , high official or group of individuals was held to be responsible ’ . |
| 6 | In their final game they defied normal logic and won the hardest game in their section by defeating the much fancied Holland , courtesy of a piece of outstanding arrogance by the diminutive midfield dynamo Archie Gemmill . |
| 7 | In their final declaration they undertook " to democratize further our societies and consolidate democratic institutions in our countries " . |
| 8 | In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs |
| 9 | In their national survey they found that : |
| 10 | In their own refectories they ate a ceramic-reinforced , drug-laden booster diet in silence , ending with a prayer recited by an older initiate . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In their timeless silence they endured his scrutiny , revealing nothing . |
| 15 | 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 . |