Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ireland the Ulster Farmers Union has joined their Southern counterparts the Irish Association in condemning the proposals , UFU President John Mulvenna claimed that they would further depress farming in Ireland . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Third parties have no legal basis for a claim that a treaty merely affects them in some way , or that non-performance or reduced performance has frustrated their own expectations ; nor can they interfere with the rights of other States to enter into such treaties . |
| 4 | He 's been the manager for 18 months , and in that time has bought their first £1m player , followed it with other seven-figure signings , and taken the club into Europe . |
| 5 | But they know they are struggling for both Wimbledon stars and now Ferguson has become their top target . |
| 6 | There is easy access to the foot of one of the buttresses where the mammoth task of construction is better appreciated and the industry and enterprise of the builders more fully admired : these craftsmen of a past age here erected a work of art that has become their own memorial and puts to shame the undistinguished concrete structures favoured by the builders of today , builders who have the benefits of modern technology yet seem too often prepared to sacrifice character to utility . |
| 7 | Nagy says Russia 's new young men are rebelling against what has become their characteristic style : muscular , virile men and pliant , slightly flowery women . |
| 8 | They seem to be locked in a time warp but this has become their biggest selling point because , by remaining stubbornly unlike every other manufacturer , their instruments can not fail to be distinctive . |
| 9 | The burrow has become their main survival device , saving them not only from swooping birds but also from earthbound predators too large to follow them . |
| 10 | But having regard to the document Policies for Housing and Industrial Land in the Greater York Area , on which the County Council has based their proposed provision , and to which the panel referred , he considers that the outer boundary of the Greater York area , should be about five and seven miles from the City Centre , the precise boundary being a consideration for local planning . |
| 11 | To the delight of the away fans , an unexpected victim is between the posts and a new song has entered their vocal repertoire . |
| 12 | Facing the realities of the background that has moulded their early life and finding forgiveness and understanding for those who , in the name of love , have moulded this type into submission , and learning that it is all right to show feeling and emotions will ultimately bring release and freedom to follow as their hearts dictate . |
| 13 | Recent anxiety about the grammar schools ' perceived responsibility for reinforcing divisions between the middle and working classes , and about the wastage of talent which their continued existence perpetuated , has brought their traditional curriculum under severe attack . |
| 14 | On the back of a disastrous run which has undermined their Premier League title hopes , the club is once again embroiled in a controversial disciplinary affair just a week after an alleged confrontation involving an Arsenal player in a nightclub . |
| 15 | Smith 's organisation has run their commercial activities for the past six years . |
| 16 | McEnroe , 33 , who has taken their three children to Fort Worth , Texas , where he is in training , refused to comment . |
| 17 | Roberto Policano , sent off during the away leg , is suspended but Torino have hit a patch of impressive form which has consolidated their fourth place in the fiercely-competitive Italian league . |
| 18 | Fullback Theo Van Rensburg keeps Currie Cup leaders Transvaal on the right track , but the positive dope test on prop Bailie Swart ( second from right ) and replacement prop Johan Le Roux has put their beefy pack under the microscope . |
| 19 | The University guarantees a place in University Halls , Student Houses or flats to all new first year undergraduates who live outwith the boundary of the City of Edinburgh , provided that their application form has reached the Student Accommodation Service by 1st September and that UCAS has confirmed their academic place at the University of Edinburgh as UF by the same date . |
| 20 | And Ruddock revealed that Shearer has fuelled their private war of nerves with ‘ threatening ’ phone calls . |
| 21 | So little irritations get filed away instead of being openly expressed and before long a boiling cauldron of repressed anger has extinguished their sexual fire . |
| 22 | It has repeatedly urged them to enter into a close political and military alliance , and has countered their steadfast rejection of its overtures by voicing territorial claims . |
| 23 | It is not related to the true eels but looks superficially like them and so has acquired their popular name . |
| 24 | He 'd heard their shrill voices when he made a routine call and seen Eileen Ryan sitting up in her big bed looking strained and miserable . |
| 25 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 26 | And if they 'd bought their true love a compact disc as a Christmas present , it would have cost them £16.73 , compared with the UK 's £12.78 . |
| 27 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 28 | Mize looked in trouble after they 'd played their second shots . |
| 29 | He 'd called their previous alliance interesting , but she would not have called it that . |
| 30 | The latter lived up to their name with gusto by getting helplessly drunk , being in a celebratory mood because they 'd signed their lucrative CBS contract that very afternoon . |