Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Announcing their victory the Dwarfs retreat to the mountains and refuse to fight any more . |
| 2 | They found their bedroom the hardest room to decorate in the new style . |
| 3 | So the sooner they can double their capacity the better . |
| 4 | But as they made their getaway the gang crashed into a lorry , and then panicked hijacking four cars at gunpoint , and opening fire on police . |
| 5 | And the police , disregarding the reds , heads , freaks , revolution , and rock at the front of the paper , made their target the gay contact personal ads at the back . |
| 6 | As the students came forward to claim their luggage the gendarme watched them closely , randomly checking passports and train tickets . |
| 7 | To support their plan the generals secretly subvent large sums from the Chiefs of Staff 's contingency fund in order to build a secret airbase in the Texas desert from which they will launch their coup . |
| 8 | Sometimes Soutine , who was living in the village , came over to enjoy a good chicken dinner , and after eating their fill the two artists reproached their host for living in such luxury . |
| 9 | But the Jaipur is hoping that eventually passengers will be eating their food the length and breadth of the country . |
| 10 | Many people make their retirement the occasion for the ‘ holiday of a lifetime ’ , now that they have the time to indulge themselves . |
| 11 | as if to signal their displeasure the Dutch parliament passed a constitutional amendment in 1952 incorporating West New Guinea into the Netherlands and closing off further discussion of the issue . |
| 12 | But the more I fished for bream and studied their behaviour the more I began to question the correctness of this theory , for I became aware that sizeable bream are rarely taken near to the margins . |
| 13 | Many kinds of caterpillar need to move to a firm support to moult their skin the twigs in the cage serve this purpose . |
| 14 | Stories abound of how the Whitley crews learnt their trade the hard way . |
| 15 | The Lowther mines round Workington had made their owner the ‘ richest commoner in England ’ ; and Appleby School was so good that George Washington 's brothers were sent there from Virginia to be educated , and he very nearly followed them himself . |
| 16 | People like Garth Crooks , Mike MacFarlane and Garry Thompson traced back how they could have made their blackness the basis for defeatism , admitting that ‘ there 's no way a black guy can make it in this society . ’ |
| 17 | Modigliani arrived quite sober for the occasion but when the two painters came to discuss their work the conversation became dangerously frigid . |
| 18 | With this successful venture now under their belts , the Alresford Society are turning their attention the pond itself , and considering the possible replacement of the ‘ shettles ’ , the ancient and now dilapidated sluices that control water flow from the pond . |
| 19 | Between them they give their mother the support she needs since their father has had a stroke . |
| 20 | You do n't have to say that but we all you know you 're you 're pulling their leg the whole time okay ? |
| 21 | The board responsible for the orphans sometimes checked on the health of the children , but they always sent the beadle , a kind of local policeman , to announce their visit the day before . |
| 22 | They hope he will lift their economy out of recession , hope he will heal the racial disharmony and end the violence in their cities , hope he will keep their country the sole superpower in a fast-changing world . |
| 23 | The lucky winner has the privilege of sending their leader the first congratulatory telegram , announcing the success of the latest project . |
| 24 | as if he sensed their homage the Kha-Khan elect waved a hand in dismissal . |
| 25 | In the silence that followed their departure the muffled movements of the other occupants of the house became surprisingly audible . |
| 26 | Of course , these trips are not compulsory , but as one Eton parent put it : ‘ Few parents would want to deny their child the opportunity to play for the school under these circumstances . ’ |
| 27 | It was an obvious-looking deception , and should n't have had a hope in hell of working ; but the girls were mostly young and good-looking , and their prey were mostly out-of-towners , and as long as they kept shifting their ground the money kept on coming in . |
| 28 | ‘ Everybody wants to give their child the very best . |
| 29 | This group of men called their transport The Mail , and it was hauled by a mare they called ‘ Polly Stuart– . |
| 30 | To be able to synchronise their emergence the cicadas must have an inbuilt timer which can count the passing years even though the animals are buried under the soil . |