Example sentences of "[vb pp] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the community were to be permitted their own opinions in matters of politics and religion , but property would be held in common . |
| 2 | This kind of crying may have to be relearnt by those whose early life experiences have distorted their natural capacity . |
| 3 | They have earned their special opprobrium in the word biblioclast ( book destroyer ) . |
| 4 | All three ‘ brothers ’ had earned their rapid elevation from the Scouts . |
| 5 | Many residents have installed their own faxes to complete the office-from-office style . |
| 6 | They have also attracted their own market in terms of housing , holidays , magazines , insurance and even a whole weekend supplement of the Financial Times ( 6 January 1990 ) . |
| 7 | He remains the most notorious of a large group of retired Israeli intelligence and security men whose dubious activities in support of unsavoury regimes have embarrassed their own government . |
| 8 | The fact that the Chinese people have promptly quelled the counter-revolutionary riot in Beijing has completely shattered their fond dream . ’ |
| 9 | The only restrictions on purchasers were not to have owned their own home during the previous three years or to have spent more than $100,000 on their prospective North Side home . |
| 10 | But where other churches have owned their own schools , as does the Church of Ireland in the South , a similar position has been adopted , though the reasons for the position have been on different grounds . |
| 11 | VICTORIA State Museum and the RAAF Museum formally committed their collective resources towards the development of the National Air & Space Museum of Australia ( NASMA ) in 1991 . |
| 12 | CGI 's top three officials , including chairman Robert Mallet , who together hold 25.4% , have committed their own shares to the bid . |
| 13 | Many Puritans were given to extreme introspection , and regularly committed their innermost thoughts to paper in the diaries and memoirs which they used as spiritual account books . |
| 14 | It is largely in the last decade that banks have modified their traditional role of borrowing from individuals to lend to industry , and have started lending massively to individuals themselves too . |
| 15 | Ms Jenny Wilson , a trustee of the charity , said research has shown that men have modified their sexual behaviour towards each other , but few towards women . |
| 16 | Even the massed ranks of City supporters behind the United goal could not have expected their great rivals to throw away their lead in such a foolish manner . |
| 17 | One of the saddest aspects of this issue is the heavy strains and burdens placed on elderly people who might have expected their last years to be more enjoyable . |
| 18 | The press barons — in particular Beaverbrook ( who owned the Express ) and Rothermere ( who owned the Mail ) — had amassed their vast power through their industrial holdings and/or their ownership of large circulation , and profitable , newspapers . |
| 19 | Editor , — Albert Maran and colleagues had already reported their randomised crossover study of hypoglycaemia with human and porcine insulin in abstract form . |
| 20 | Where schools , aided by PNP resourcing , had lifted their professional climate and decision-making processes out of the slough of low morale , crisis management and paternalism , they were able to confront the next wave of change constructively and with confidence , having the will , expertise and procedures to tackle the very difficult questions about curriculum and assessment which the 1988 Act provoked . |
| 21 | I was overjoyed that our letters had regained their old intimacy , and I wrote telling him how much I delighted in sharing his thoughts once more . |
| 22 | Although sent to his 1947 address in Los Angela , it had finally , almost flukily , caught up with him — and thereby opened a floodgate of memories upon which the years had added their sentimental compound-interest . |
| 23 | Local authorities whose members believe that their particular ideologies should be furthered through schools have added their own ingredients . |
| 24 | The authors have added their own glosses on and redefinitions of some statements of attainment . |
| 25 | Thereafter , as many as a dozen other females will have added their own babies to the creche in the tunnel in the same way . |
| 26 | No less than 27 have won their first cap under the England manager but only six of the 13 players he used in Norway were his ‘ new boys ’ Carlton Palmer , Les Ferdinand , Lee Sharpe , David Batty , substitute Ian Wright and new captain Paul Ince . |
| 27 | At 5.45 pm Gower pulled Mushtaq for two and England had won their first Test against Pakistan for 10 years , and levelled the series , with one to play . |
| 28 | and three cheers for Gloucestershire … they 've won their first championship game of the season |
| 29 | and three cheers for Gloucestershire … they 've won their first championship game of the season |
| 30 | Yet , if Souness had been as rational during the game , Spurs might not have won their first League match in six weeks . |