Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found their bedroom the hardest room to decorate in the new style . |
| 2 | So the sooner they can double their capacity the better . |
| 3 | And the police , disregarding the reds , heads , freaks , revolution , and rock at the front of the paper , made their target the gay contact personal ads at the back . |
| 4 | Sometimes Soutine , who was living in the village , came over to enjoy a good chicken dinner , and after eating their fill the two artists reproached their host for living in such luxury . |
| 5 | as if to signal their displeasure the Dutch parliament passed a constitutional amendment in 1952 incorporating West New Guinea into the Netherlands and closing off further discussion of the issue . |
| 6 | Stories abound of how the Whitley crews learnt their trade the hard way . |
| 7 | You do n't have to say that but we all you know you 're you 're pulling their leg the whole time okay ? |
| 8 | They hope he will lift their economy out of recession , hope he will heal the racial disharmony and end the violence in their cities , hope he will keep their country the sole superpower in a fast-changing world . |
| 9 | The lucky winner has the privilege of sending their leader the first congratulatory telegram , announcing the success of the latest project . |
| 10 | In the silence that followed their departure the muffled movements of the other occupants of the house became surprisingly audible . |
| 11 | Louis ' men had set their roadblock the far side of the bridge from Trent 's observation point — upended ammunition boxes topped by poles cut from the jungle edge and a square white signboard on which Trent could see red letters made indecipherable by the angle of the board to his line of vision . |
| 12 | Some discussion of funerary monuments is included in this chapter ; although today we may consider these private , many Romans evidently thought that the more people saw their memorial the better . |
| 13 | They earned their promotion the hard way . |
| 14 | To complete their picture the local authorities had to discredit Mr M and his work with the family . |
| 15 | They spent that evening at the Cistercian monastery of Melrose and continued their journey the following morning . |
| 16 | I have to admit that , in the early days , it was with mixed feelings that I intervened — suggesting , for example , that life preparation students really ought to take their turn the same as anyone else . |
| 17 | While the rich could flaunt their wealth the numerous urban poor lived in a state of penury . |
| 18 | The agency man owes his knowledge of a particular publication , say newspaper profiles " , not only to the National Readership Survey , but to the sales literature from the media itself which have plied him with relevant data about readership and special opportunities and offers to make their publication the best of all possible buys . |
| 19 | Therefore , to prove their usefulness the suggested criteria for hypoxaemia will have to be prospectively validated in other clinical settings , at sea level and above , and in groups of patients with a range of severity of disease . |
| 20 | It is no accident that certain adjectives which can appear as postnominal , but not prenominal , attributives do also appear in predicative position , while , on the other hand , certain adjectives which only occur prenominally can not stand as predicatives : ( 33 ) the robber was asleep not noticing the robber asleep , they missed their revenge the asleep robber ( 34 ) their proposals are sheer lunacy their lunacy is sheer lunacy sheer of this sort is unsurprising |
| 21 | I suppose you have to let them experiment and then learn their lesson the hard way when they take a spill . ’ |