Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they know they are struggling for both Wimbledon stars and now Ferguson has become their top target . |
| 2 | Lamb alone tore that stopper from his mouth so the fans could learn , authoritatively and from the middle , exactly how Pakistan had perfected their series-winning delivery . |
| 3 | The mocking little smile was back on his face , and his eyes had resumed their watchful , vaguely arrogant look . |
| 4 | His eyes had lost their glazed intensity and the fits of rapid blinking had stopped . |
| 5 | Ministers were selected mainly from the ruling National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development ( MRND — until June 1991 the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ) , with one from the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) ; both parties had announced their working programmes and had listed members . |
| 6 | The ships had some 10 miles to go ; the MLs had used their extra fuel and filled the spare tanks with seawater as they stole into the estuary in two columns , headed by MGB 314 : These motorboats are difficult to handle at slow speed and Campbeltown was sluggish , but at speed she drew an extra foot aft and every inch counted as she came towards the mud . |
| 7 | The two surviving Palestinians were both captured ; they were part of a group , originally six in number , who had landed in two rubber dinghies at Naquarah after an Israeli naval patrol boat had diverted their intended attack on Israel . |
| 8 | By the end of her first term in office the Australian War Cry was reporting that all but one of the forty nine students at the training college had passed their final exam and that twenty eight of the first year students had become Salvationists and eight had applied to be officers . |
| 9 | The disclosure has led to the closure of the nursery -but the stock could only be sold for £26,246 because most growers had made their seasonal purchases . |
| 10 | ‘ When the debate [ referring to the exhaustive symposium probe by the AAAS ] was over , the dinosaurs had lost their high metabolic rate : they were , it turned out , passively warm-blooded , inertial homoiotherms . ’ |
| 11 | In different degrees , both the earlier tsars had devoted their first years on the throne to improving the condition of the empire , but one of them had been distracted by Napoleon and the other by foreign war and a rebellion in Poland . |
| 12 | By allowing their fleets and armies to be run down under Bel-Korhadris and Aethis , the Elves of Ulthuan had allowed their dark kindred to catch up and almost overhaul them in military might . |
| 13 | Science teachers had been very responsive to these library-based developments , despite the fact that industrial action had prevented their proper introduction , discussion and evaluation . |
| 14 | He was aware that famous players of those roles had developed their own ways of interpretation and tricks , which were then handed down from generation to generation . |
| 15 | The incident happened the day after the local Gwent police force had launched their anti-drink drive campaign . |
| 16 | This exercise originated in 1906 when newly-elected Labour MPs were asked what books had influenced their political beliefs . |
| 17 | Penguin books had changed their distinctive format . |
| 18 | It was by then already obvious that the schools had overcome their first reservations er about what the scheme had to offer and it was so obvious that they deserved recognition for their efforts that it led to my colleagues , Councillor and putting down the motion to Council in April of this year , drawing attention to the continuing success in schools throughout the district of the Local Management initiative . |
| 19 | By what route this strategy will proceed is unclear — technology swapping , OEM or other — however , the company admits that it probably would have been a good idea had Tandem Computers Inc and Pyramid had meshed their respective hardware and Unix software experience in that area two years ago . |
| 20 | In languages which sound melodious to English ears like Italian and Spanish this has already happened — many words have lost their final vowels . |
| 21 | Pogo 's production is expansive and clear , especially on the slower , more serious ‘ Bad Person ’ , and the rappers have devised their own slang , too , so repeated listening is encouraged . |
| 22 | Both characteristics have inhibited their own effects on psychology . |
| 23 | For some reason , the makers of this trash still think that all metal fans have had their frontal lobes seared from their skulls , and would n't know an intelligent sentence if it jumped up and shouted ‘ moron ’ in their earholes . |
| 24 | For some reason , the makers of this trash still think that all metal fans have had their frontal lobes seared from their skulls , and would n't know an intelligent sentence if it jumped up and shouted ‘ moron ’ in their earholes . |
| 25 | But all provinces have developed their own list of core servies and many are now de-insuring specialties such as cosmetic surgery in a bid to constrain the growth rate of health budgets . |
| 26 | The H2-antagonists have had their own complications . |
| 27 | I think the time has probably passed now , all the schools have got their own budgets , they 've got their own builders who are giving them a good service , and I doubt whether this is the time to resurrect that , especially with local government review not far off , and the future of a county-wide D S O in some doubt , when it comes to local government review . |
| 28 | Some schools have transformed their youngest classes so they resemble nursery schools , says Sandra Brown . |
| 29 | Local authorities whose members believe that their particular ideologies should be furthered through schools have added their own ingredients . |
| 30 | More than two hundred children whose school was damaged by a severe gale have spent their last day in temporary classrooms . |