Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government moved swiftly to meet their requirement to introduce the landlord and tenant legislation . |
| 2 | Human beings turned out to be more intelligent than dandelions and modified their behaviour to match the new circumstances . |
| 3 | There can not have been any English fans who had expected their team to win the series , but the manner in which they were just being steam-rollered seemly scarcely credible . |
| 4 | 24 , the defendants , a husband and wife , charged their property to secure the repayment to the bank of the indebtedness of a company , S. Ltd . |
| 5 | The Indian decision to encourage their repatriation reflected the growing problem of crime and violence in the camps . |
| 6 | ‘ The girls want their room doing the same now but I draw the line at our bedroom . ’ |
| 7 | On Oct. 15 , 1989 , a controversial retrial of 15 Islamic extremists ( who had been associates of Bouiali-see above ) was abandoned after the defence had successfully argued that a regional court was not competent to try their case following the Supreme Court 's refusal to do so . |
| 8 | The pipes wailed and squealed into life , then caught their air to fill the room with a martial sound as the company , two by two and slow as an army 's progress up a country road , went in to supper . |
| 9 | She both appropriates and adulterates the discourses of history , challenging their claim to tell the truth and their implicit exclusion of women from positions of discursive authority . |
| 10 | Carers say their work saves the tax payer around thirty billion pounds a year . |
| 11 | Deliberately low-key , they have let their music do the talking for over years . |
| 12 | The young princes , dressed smartly in dark blazers , helped their grandmother collect the flowers and were later rewarded by a lady in the crowd who offered them gift-wrapped bars of chocolate . |
| 13 | They are pressing their government to stop the diving and turn Truk into a war grave . |
| 14 | Berliners are of one mind in pressing their claim to get the government back , knowing that a shift of the ministries from Bonn would attract to the city businesses of all kinds , eager to be close to the centres of decision-making . |
| 15 | Traditional current affairs departments have n't quite figured out how to adjust their agenda to meet the shift . |
| 16 | The party elite and the local activists certainly tried their utmost to influence the outcome of elections . |
| 17 | Trogus goes on to explain that a little later — that is about 390 B.C. — the Massaliotes emptied their treasure to ransom the Romans from the Gauls . |
| 18 | Backbench rebels put the defeat to one side and vowed to continue their battle to scupper the controversial Euro treaty . |
| 19 | But protestors vowed to continue their fight to close the plant . |
| 20 | To boost this low volume of activity the German banks who invested over DM 10 million in the exchange announced their intention to give the DTB preference in Bund derivative trading in 1991 . |
| 21 | July 1 : Nine leading Soviet reformers announced their intention to form the Democratic Reform Movement [ see p. 38347 ] . |
| 22 | Scottish Nuclear and the recognised trade unions within the company recently announced their intention to join the compensation scheme for radiation-linked diseases . |
| 23 | On Feb. 13 the Soviet Union and United States announced their intention to reduce the number of their troops stationed in Central Europe to 195,000 each , while the United States would be allowed to station an additional 30,000 troops in other European countries ( primarily Italy , Turkey and the United Kingdom ) . |
| 24 | He knew she was angry with him for allowing their daughter to join the hunt , traditionally something only a select few men were allowed the honour of , but she would see his way soon enough . |
| 25 | These shortages will effectively restrict their ability to meet the demand for their products or services . |
| 26 | I do not believe that the Commissioners justified their proposal to raise the ceiling . |
| 27 | They are examining the world 's bauxite reserves , investigating the potentialities of Gabon as a market for learning machines , using their influence to secure the release of political prisoners , setting up conferences to standardize labour law and regulations for contraceptive pills . |
| 28 | The band came for what seemed like a Royal visit to the EMI CD plant at Swindon , to see their song become the 100 000 000th disc to be produced there . |
| 29 | One thing is certain : having wooed and won passengers , ferry companies are determined to see their relationship outlast the pre-Tunnel honeymoon . |
| 30 | Frustration can easily occur unless members radically change their thinking to view the church-as-a-force . |