Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two members of the French side were given their marching orders and have since received substantial suspensions . |
| 2 | Karrimor were showing their re-designed range of Baltoro waterproofs which combine Gore-Tex with a light , soft and reputedly hard-wearing 2 ply Ferrara face fabric . |
| 3 | Or maybe they were more aroused because of the flashing light , or maybe the light was affecting their visual system in some way . |
| 4 | Mountain Equipment were showing their new range of four Voyager synthetic filled sleeping bags , made without any through stitching . |
| 5 | The development of the new package was supported by an extension of welfare provision to all regular employees as an indication that management was replacing their old authoritarian image with that of a benevolent or sympathetic parent . |
| 6 | Naturally , one of the first things the Fields did on arrival at Lartington Hall was to start their own pack of hounds . |
| 7 | When the first girl was engaged their first encounter was in a narrow passage . |
| 8 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 9 | It happened as the world-famous Falcons skydiving team were making their first display jump of the season , watched by more than two hundred schoolchildren . |
| 10 | But beneath the monument to Afrikaanerdom , the racist right wing were staging their biggest demonstration yet . |
| 11 | In later Christian debate the history of the formation of the biblical canon has at times become a sensitive issue : were the books admitted to the church 's canon because they were self-authenticating , and a passive act of the community was to acknowledge their inherent authority ? |
| 12 | Most of the inhabitants of the block were walking their last circuits before being locked in , and there was an absence of noise which merged with the deepening gloom . |
| 13 | Attempts to simplify this , particularly in the vogue for a massive Romanesque style in the 1880s , foundered on the sheer scope of station-building continent-wide , and the range of experimentation which arose from the repeated station renewal of railway companies whose exaggerated energy and corporate conceit were to endanger their own survival . |
| 14 | Doc Threadneedle had fixed her body up so she healed quick , and the stinging meant that the micro-organisms he had fed into her flesh were doing their good work . |
| 15 | The way out of this predicament was to alter their own environment through their own metabolism . |
| 16 | At the time of writing , AI was investigating their legal situation . |
| 17 | Only the pre-lunch session was possible on the second day , drizzle intensifying to heavy rain which even penetrated the Press-box roof just as Cornhill Insurance were announcing their two-year extension of sponsorship . |
| 18 | Even as Lord Caithness seemed to buckle the Government were tabling their own amendments to fix the odds against B R bids a finesse , but the rebels bought it . |
| 19 | But it was n't for real … the students of the Oxford University Union were getting their new season under way . |
| 20 | On cue , the rowing boat appeared from around the coastal bend and in it two topless dykes roaring and cheering were urging their little craft into the cove . |
| 21 | tufts of weed were using their green levers |
| 22 | The film Scandal was being hyped through the papers at the time , and reminded everybody ( everybody in newspapers and public relations , anyway ) of those dear dead days of yore when Christine Keeler and co were weaving their sexual spider 's webs from Defence Minister to Jamaican playboy via Russian spy . |
| 23 | The Prussians found that the advanced industrial nations of the West were using their colonial possessions to fuel their industrial drive , and accordingly Prussia began to seek out markets that the British , French , Belgians and Dutch did not dominate . |
| 24 | Board members needed to feel that training was meeting their specific needs and arose directly from needs . |
| 25 | Yet by the 1830s , some 50 students a year were gaining their qualifying diploma ( after an oral examination , conducted exclusively by medical men ) and the profession was steadily gaining recognition and status . |
| 26 | Armenia 's plans to introduce its own currency were completing their preparatory phase , according to Vice-President and head of the government Gagik Arutyunyan on June 6 . |
| 27 | The news came as Gooch 's squad were finishing their intensive Autumn pre-tour training programme at Lilleshall . |
| 28 | A platoon from B Company were having their own shooting competition with the Canadians and Germans . |
| 29 | The couple were allocated their new housing association home through Middlesbrough Council . |
| 30 | A COUPLE were celebrating their new home today after waiting for 42 years . |