Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study of working-class girls by Sue Sharpe demonstrated that their main aims and priorities were to marry , have children and settle down ( Sharpe , 1976 ) . |
| 2 | Both sides of the compartment were lined with machinery and metal boxes so crushed and mangled that their original function was incomprehensible . |
| 3 | When the Rand study looked at five giant companies with Superfund sites , it found that their legal fees were only 21% of what they spent on cleaning up , and much less when only one company was involved in cleaning a site . |
| 4 | Many of the staff found that their closest friends still date from that era . |
| 5 | They found that their only means of illumination was the collection of antique paraffin lamps and that there was only one boiler — which worked intermittently . |
| 6 | Although the villagers of Zubaydat significantly increased their productivity through the introduction of drip irrigation , they quickly found that their real problem lay with marketing . |
| 7 | The experimenters repeated their tests , and found that their first results were indeed wrong , and Mendeleev was right . |
| 8 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 9 | Those who remained in work found that their non-working hours totally revolved around their heroin use : |
| 10 | The factory also illegally employed children , normally the sons and daughters of employees who found that their own wages were insufficient . |
| 11 | No doubt it was very vexatious to Lanfranc , especially since he doubted whether their so-called saints deserved this title at all . |
| 12 | The men winced as their bare feet touched the plaster and Owen could feel the heat even through the soles of his shoes . |
| 13 | But anything which seemed to offer a challenge to what they regarded as their rightful status was certain to cause resentment . |
| 14 | My view was that people wanted what they regarded as their own pension and my aim was to ensure an expansion in provision . |
| 15 | In an 1879 article , the eminent lawyer , journalist and essayist Walter Bagehot agreed that any attempt by women to escape what he regarded as their biological destiny was anti-evolutionary . |
| 16 | Some realized that their first year savings were intrinsically ‘ once only ’ : ‘ We ca n't go generic every year , ’ said one lead clinician . |
| 17 | Maclean realized that their only chance was to bluff their way out of the situation , so they set off for the main gate . |
| 18 | An appeal court later agreed that their first trial was ‘ wrong in law ’ , but upheld the death sentence . |
| 19 | To forestall rival suitors who might become political enemies , Ernst August and his wife agreed that their eldest son , Georg Ludwig ( George Lewis ) , must marry the girl ; Sophia Dorothea 's own parents were delighted in view of the English royal connection . |
| 20 | In November the Six agreed that their foreign ministers would meet every three months . |
| 21 | While in Bali the ASEAN leaders agreed that their forthcoming summit in Singapore would proceed as planned . |
| 22 | He recognized that the manyattas were ‘ an indigenous school ’ , an integral part of the process whereby a Masai became distinctively a Masai , and recommended that their character-building qualities be respected and adapted . |
| 23 | However , no-one would listen to us and the Dampness Group realised that their first task was to get evidence to prove their common sense approach . |
| 24 | In a blatant lie the Junkers argued that their massive estates were vital to the German economy and to the country 's ability to support itself . |
| 25 | The authors believed that their serological results supported the view that infection with M paratuberculosis might cause Crohn 's disease . |
| 26 | The time of administration of the gonadotropins relative to each other and the light cycle of the mouse room affects both the number of eggs ovulated and their developmental uniformity . |
| 27 | The move , reportedly aimed at assuaging Chinese fears about growing unrest among India 's estimated 110,000 Tibetan exiles , came as their spiritual leader , His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso , the 14th Dalai Lama , gained increasing recognition from government leaders in the USA and the UK [ see pp. 38097 ; 38190 ] . |
| 28 | Acceptance came when their eldest daughter , Claire , then aged five , expressed her delight at seeing the twins for the first time and said simply : ‘ Oh look Mammy , they 're stuck together . ’ |
| 29 | But there was a very small group who acknowledged that their unspoken anger was so powerful , they used their tears as a revenge , knowing that their husbands hated tears and knowing that weeping they could discomfort them . |
| 30 | LTTE sources , however , claimed that their total casualties did not exceed 17 . |