Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , a large and growing majority of occupiers owned their own home . |
| 2 | In many ways , as the technology and its altering social relations became more general , new forms and new areas of experience made their own way into print . |
| 3 | The absence of policy and the paucity of central support and initiatives meant that the majority of schools devised their own home-school policies , strategies and roles . |
| 4 | It was not , however , until the battle of Carham in 1016 on Northumbrian territory that the Scots made their own effective inroads and claimed Lothian for themselves . |
| 5 | Men who could afford the luxury owned their own horse , plus one or more horse-litters for their family . |
| 6 | All three main parties had reconstruction committees working on postwar plans by 1941 , while professional groups such as the BMA and the Town and Country Planning Association provided their own schemes . |
| 7 | Villagers and fisherfolk in Manila ( Philippines ) , West Bengal and Tamil Nadu ( India ) , and in Mexico used their own resources rather than technology to achieve particular results . |
| 8 | Under Imperial rule , a number of emperors added their own forum bearing their name ; one forum was not large enough for the needs of the whole city . |
| 9 | The Shans and Kachins claimed their own states within a Union of Burma : this was accepted . |
| 10 | I was therefore instructed to discontinue the action on the basis that each side paid their own costs , although the Guardian had suffered a continuous reverse in their attempts to maintain the right to press freedom and to maintain secrecy about their informant . |
| 11 | Prior to 1884 , the various veterinary schools imposed their own preliminary examination in general education . |
| 12 | Ironically , such tight rule-bound organizations contained their own innate weaknesses , which alert constables could spot . |
| 13 | On the day of the launch of The Campaign For Unbleached Paper , the Association of Sanitary Protection Manufacturers sent their own press release in response to the World in Action expose by courier bike — to all the women 's magazines and papers . |
| 14 | Early on , Solowka and Gregory did their own bit of AWOLing but it was usually because of a Littlewoods Cup replay , not to escort a bevy of simpering temptresses in nylon flairs . |
| 15 | Soon after the ceremony more men came in , and the remaining arms were distributed , each ‘ stand ’ consisting of a musket , bayonet and brass-hilted infantryman 's sword , though some of the Highlanders preferred their own basket-hilted broadswords . |
| 16 | Many of the fish-trading families along this coast had their own fish-curing houses in addition to their retail business . |
| 17 | Popular opinion among those British ‘ boy labour ’ reformers who considered the curriculum seems to have favoured basing the organization of the classes on the Munich model in which trades either had their own schools , or groups of trades had their own curriculum . |
| 18 | The Red Army units had their own dynamic and their own imperative — to reach Kaledin as swiftly as possible , regardless of peasant opinion . |
| 19 | The majority of German castles had their own private armouries , handed down over generations , which contained sporting weapons for the use of the family , their retainers and their guests . |
| 20 | Both parties had their own organisations to co-ordinate the activities of their followers and ensure party unity . |
| 21 | The parties had their own money collectors and the industrialists , willingly or stoically , paid up knowing there was no option . |
| 22 | Manufacturers wrote their own copy and it appears very naive now . |
| 23 | The gentlemen had their own . |
| 24 | Both mansio and baths had their own water supply . |
| 25 | By the 1870s several public schools had their own cadet or rifle corps , though within the schools it was not until the Boer War that they achieved real popularity . |
| 26 | The divisions proving irreconcilable , both parties published their own enlarged ‘ agreements of the people ’ , that of the officers being presented to the Rump Parliament in mid-January 1649 . |
| 27 | On 6 April 1320 the clergy , barons and community of Scotland made their own appeal , asserting Scotland 's right to freedom from alien domination . |
| 28 | A major subject of discussion within GATT in 1989 was the application of the so-called " Super-301 " procedure under the US 1988 Trade Act , providing for retaliatory unilateral sanctions against countries which themselves applied allegedly unfair trade practices against US goods and services , unless those countries modified their own practices within a given period of time . |
| 29 | All the parents ignored their own youngsters and yelled for Kelly . |
| 30 | A COMPREHENSIVE school in Essex is poised to opt out of local authority control after parents overturned their own decision . |