Example sentences of "[vb pp] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of crying may have to be relearnt by those whose early life experiences have distorted their natural capacity . |
| 2 | They have earned their special opprobrium in the word biblioclast ( book destroyer ) . |
| 3 | All three ‘ brothers ’ had earned their rapid elevation from the Scouts . |
| 4 | The fact that the Chinese people have promptly quelled the counter-revolutionary riot in Beijing has completely shattered their fond dream . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Editor , — Albert Maran and colleagues had already reported their randomised crossover study of hypoglycaemia with human and porcine insulin in abstract form . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 16 | Aurangzeb 's musketeers held their fire until the last minute , then discharged their entire artillery . |
| 17 | for him to determine as a preliminary issue whether the county court had jurisdiction to deal with the matter , or whether , as the council claim , the question whether they had discharged their statutory duty under section 69 could only be raised by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court . |
| 18 | Perhaps some may have enjoyed their brief flirtation with notoriety , some may even have gained financially , but others may regret the publicity , possibly suffering from poison-pen attacks brought about by the exposure by the press of names and addresses of those who were victims of sexual attacks ( but not raped ) by The Fox or who were unlucky enough to be associated by both , marriage or friendship to this man . |
| 19 | The early-morning sun dappled their exposed shoulders through swaying fish-tail palms . |
| 20 | Sixteen head tenants were absentees who let all their land , while thirty-seven ( or half ) of the cultivators occupied their entire holdings as undertenants . |
| 21 | To believe that people have been sensible of God in other ages is not however to accept what I may call the ‘ vehicle ’ of the Christian myth which has carried their religious sensibilities . |
| 22 | The men had exaggerated their black eye-sockets with kohl and mascara . |
| 23 | It was a bit scary to cut an artery and they had cancelled their Italian holiday at once . |
| 24 | THE HOUSE OF LOVE have rescheduled their one-off London date originally postponed from September and plan to give away a limited-edition single featuring a previously unreleased ten-minute track at the show . |
| 25 | And just five minutes later the Germans booked their third-round place with a strike by Michael Zorc . |
| 26 | Babs said it was all very well but had he forgotten their leading man was flat on his back in Sefton General ? |
| 27 | The conservative Cornish , who had not forgotten their previous grievances , had a deep affection for the Latin Liturgy . |
| 28 | United by a sense of shared adversity , party leaders in Peking and East Berlin have now forgotten their past quarrels to confront what both see as their common enemy — the forces of change sweeping the rest of the Communist world . |
| 29 | This might just be led by President Gorbachev , in alliance with Democrats who , in turn , had shed their radical wing . |
| 30 | The Army have not dropped their controversial access conditions as was reported , but have amended them following the representations they have received from the BMC and the views that were expressed at the Castlemartin meeting in March . |