Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 2 | Both the DoI and the 600 Group were keeping their information on the effects of robots on employment to themselves . |
| 3 | Pensioners ' leaders , however , demanded a minimum monthly pension of between US$250 and $300 , basing their case on the level of current wage settlements . |
| 4 | Suragai and Kadan were walking their st'lyan on the grass where the stream curved away out of sight , each of them with one of the twins in the saddle . |
| 5 | After setting up and completing their work on the beaches , on 10 July , No 6 Beach Group was dissolved . |
| 6 | The difficulty in mechanical engineering design is centred around the recognition of these different features and establishing their effect on the design constraints . |
| 7 | Believing their leader on the verge of death and the vengeance of Asuryan about to descend upon them , his discouraged followers took up their leader 's body and fled the shrine , leaving the best and the noblest of the Elf princes dead within . |
| 8 | Among the companies developing their business on the technology are Celgene Corporation of Warren , New Jersey , and Sepracor of Marlborough , Massachusetts . |
| 9 | They can therefore be visualized as potential cellular automata capable of imprinting their pattern on the surrounding body fluids . |
| 10 | In his contribution to the present volume , the distinguished Soviet historian , Leonid Goryushkin , has added fresh insights to the body of literature on nineteenth and early twentieth-century peasant migration patterns by demonstrating how these reflected the fluctuating social , economic and political policies of the late tsarist regime and by analysing their impact on the agrarian economy and village industries of Siberia in the decades before the first World War . |
| 11 | The tragedy of the industry was that they had won the battle only by turning their back on the price mechanism : a procedure for resource allocation which , arguably , is the best medium for the decentralisation of decision making to firms in the modern economy . |
| 12 | The club has criticised the fans for not turning up in bigger numbers to support the club but now they are turning their criticism on the manager . |
| 13 | perhaps erm perhaps they 're only parking their caravan on the . |
| 14 | The Ellis float is clearly a profitable one , but across the country fewer and fewer people are buying their milk on the doorstep , even though delivery charges average at just 52p a week . |
| 15 | But that will only happen if and when holidaymakers use their consumer power to insist that hotels , tour operators and international airlines take an active role in minimising their impact on the environment . |
| 16 | Spectra , supporting Motorola Inc' 68000 microprocessors at the target system end and Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparcstations at the host end , is designed to maximise host tool operations whilst minimising their dependence on the target system , with a host resident target manager controlling the debugging activity that would normally burden the target system . |
| 17 | Pat O'Brien addressed the Divorce Action Group in Galway on 27 May , supporting their campaign on the grounds of religious freedom for minorities ( Irish Times , 29 May 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Watched by a demonstration of 5000 jeering westerners at the Brandenburg Gate , and by Mr Willi Brandt , the then Mayor of West Berlin who referred to ‘ the vacant eyes of uniformed compatriots doing their duty on the other side ’ , the soldiers completed the first barrier in only a few hours . |
| 19 | I am fundamentally lazy and decided that we would inevitably be scrambled so it was less effort to remain in my aircraft and wait for it , helmet on and listening to the R T. The next thing I saw was people running — I still could not hear anything due to my helmet — and on looking round saw the 109s starting their dive on the field . |
| 20 | Under the old DHSS cohabitation ruling , beleaguered by years of criticism from welfare workers and the women 's movement , women who had male friends , family or lovers around ran the risk of losing their benefit on the grounds that these men were or should be maintaining them . |
| 21 | That explained why so many of the big-wave riders were focusing their attention on the outer reefs . |
| 22 | Motorists who are having a rest day at Fort William can be strongly recommended to travel to Mallaig and back on the train , getting a window seat and , for a change , feasting their gaze on the passing scenery and not on the road in front : an effortless journey of sheer delight all the way . |
| 23 | It was only when they tensed , curling and tightening their grip on the floor , did he realise they were alive . |
| 24 | Lucian Freud was among those who sometimes called in at breakfast and who , whilst Bobby Hunt made coffee , lay sprawled round the room , exercising their wit on the contents of the day 's newspaper . |
| 25 | Pancho has witnessed players he believed were thwarted in achieving their apogee on the tennis court . |
| 26 | When they are supposed to be arguing about the rider or scrawling their name on the walls , they sit quietly down and start replying to fan letters , or in Solowka 's case , it 's off with the flat-cap and out with the calculator . |
| 27 | There is growing evidence to suggest , however , that acid deposition and ozone pollution are taking their toll on the UK environment . |
| 28 | The lovable but stupid lemmings will be making their debut on the Lynx in this classic save 'em up . |
| 29 | After ten years building warehouses , they moved into high-rise development in 1965 , and then spent the next ten years making their mark on the Toronto skyline . |
| 30 | LIVERPOOL boxing brothers Carl ( left ) and Paul Wright are both making their mark on the professional scene . |