Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet military planners tried to circumvent the treaty cutting conventional forces in Europe , because they thought the cuts agreed on by their foreign ministry went too deep . |
| 2 | Another notable seizure made by Vigilant was as a result of an operation in 1969 , initiated by the Investigation Branch who had been tipped off by their Dutch colleagues that a suspected smuggling vessel had left Flushing bound for the Kent coast . |
| 3 | The shapely brunette , whose job was to help Davies kick his heroin and cocaine addiction and keep him on the straight and narrow , was turned on by their wild romps . |
| 4 | Her parents were both cut off by their wealthy families , following a clandestine marriage in the early 1750s . |
| 5 | After spending a month in that city , he was persuaded to return to Kidderminster for a while , but he found the ‘ drunken rabble greatly stirred up by their royalist masters ’ . |
| 6 | All footy fans have the potential for trainspotterism , as soon as they start collecting the endless cack churned out by their beloved club , any posters , articles etc . |
| 7 | I was , however , pleased in my year to be associated with many papers and reports put out by their working parties : to government , select committees , special interest groups and to the national and transport media . |
| 8 | Two more sections of the world-famous Dowty Group are being sold off by their new parent company . |
| 9 | Other Ministers stake out their claims , urged on by their civil servants . |
| 10 | Ray and her sister were baptized Catholics , but after their mother 's elopement in 1891 with Bernhard Berenson , the art critic , they were brought up by their Quaker grandmother , Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith . |
| 11 | A book about the children of the war , displaced children , children who had not been brought up by their natural parents or in their home countries . |
| 12 | It was the kings ' collective identity as a family , clearly marked out by their distinctive names , that gave the Carolingian world a political unity underlying successive partitions . |
| 13 | The Union 's case will be set out by their senior life member , Ken Harris , who said this week he will relinquish his post as a trustee . |
| 14 | But spurred on by their determined commander , whose reaction was ‘ My flanks are turned ; my centre gives way ; I attack ! ’ , the hardpressed French rallied and held . |
| 15 | This deprives the zooxanthellae in their tissues of oxygen , light and food and they quickly die and are cast off by their invertebrate host . |
| 16 | NORTHERN Ireland senior netball team buoyed up by their European League win over Scotland last week play League leaders , England , at Lisburn Leisure Centre tomorrow ( 2.15 ) . |
| 17 | Dust from such holes sprinkled down upon the drillers and considerable amounts were inevitably taken in by their vigorous inhalations as they laboured . |
| 18 | For these teachers the time taken up by their extra activities more than repays itself in renewed zest and self-confidence in school . |
| 19 | And that something is nothing more than their inward consciousness , heavily hemmed in by their subtle and instinctive mental processes . |
| 20 | The news came as British Olympic chiefs demanded that confusion over the status of clenbuterol the drug at the centre of the controversy should be quickly cleared up by their international counterparts . |
| 21 | Only when Zimbabwean Peter Ndlovu , Coventry 's exciting striker who had been kept out by their recent resurgence in form , came on as substitute after the break was there occasional menace . |
| 22 | Yet they always seem held down by their sheer ordinariness . |
| 23 | Yet they always seem held down by their sheer ordinariness . |