Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calling for positive political action from local parties and the Irish government , he said that agreement on a basis for formal negotiation was " close and attainable " but that the constitutional parties involved needed to demonstrate their political will . |
| 2 | More serious was the danger to a community when enclosure by a lord took in parts of the common land , on which the villagers had relied to graze their own stock . |
| 3 | They had expected to record their fourth victory over home side this season , but on a poor service , the game was a dour affair , as neither side dominated the proceedings . |
| 4 | The Krays , Richardsons , and many more villains had come to pay their last respects . |
| 5 | They had come to relish their small but growing role as political and social observers , invoking the spirit of ‘ May Fourth ’ . |
| 6 | Since the report was published , he said , the authority had sought to alter their working methods . |
| 7 | In Roberts v. Hopwood Poplar Council had decided to pay their low grade workers £4 per week . |
| 8 | The wife 's son said his mother and stepfather had decided to end their eight-year marriage after the St Valentine 's Day row . |
| 9 | For instance , the peasants of the Maramureş to whom Ceauşescu had appealed to preserve their ancient ways had only been able to do so until then because their poor hill-side farms had not yet been collectivized . |
| 10 | Over the centuries officers had had to nurse their wooden ships for structural reasons and this had provided a certain measure of protection against excessive sail-carrying . |
| 11 | It was the first chance the girls had had to speak their own langauage . |
| 12 | They had preferred to believe their own state-controlled media , which had predicted an Iraqi victory . |
| 13 | He said the two countries had agreed to intensify their joint efforts to ‘ re-energise the peace process ’ , to encourage the partners to return to the negotiations , and to work together to achieve an early resumption of the next round of talks . |
| 14 | The " doves " had agreed to withdraw their own amendment , which mentioned the Palestinians ' " right to self-determination " . |
| 15 | At a news conference on Dec. 5 Stoltenberg said that members had agreed to pool their military resources in the event of US troop reductions in Europe following the collapse of the Warsaw Pact . |
| 16 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 17 | Both Japan and Korea had refused to open their domestic rice markets . |
| 18 | By the peace of Paris , the inhabitants of ‘ Gascony beyond the Garonne ’ had become arrière-vassaux of Louis IX , although in 1224 they had refused to transfer their ultimate allegiance to the king of France . |
| 19 | The French government had wanted to publicise their new colony , Algeria , and therefore approached the arch-publicist Dumas , who was delighted to accept . |
| 20 | A significant number in the survey had been so badly penalised they had left to form their own practices . |
| 21 | She had walked down through suburban Summertown , taking her time but without reluctance ; watching the tidiness of the shoppers and the smartness of the shops with something akin to smugness - how little energy and vitality they had , compared to her own shopping street , with its untidy market atmosphere permeating even the Safeways and Boots which had tried to raise their modern , never-had-it-so-good façades in challenge to the poverty and squalor , and had failed . |
| 22 | Previously , the Romans had tried to bring their civil calendar , which like many ancient calendars was based on the moon , into line with the astronomical year based on the sun by adopting a system involving an additional or intercalary month every second year . |
| 23 | The Greens had planned to hold their 1989 rally in the Sorbonne , but at the last minute they were told they would have to go elsewhere and the only venue available at short notice was the Cité . |
| 24 | The LNWR 's engineers had planned to take their new line across land belonging to the farm , despite objections from the owners , and this is where Dicky became involved . |
| 25 | Under President Ford leading Western states had begun to tackle their economic differences with greater determination . |
| 26 | As early as 1959 West Germany and Italy had begun to build their own industries to prevent France gaining too much dominance in the sector . |
| 27 | For example , by the late 1950s and early 1960s the Japanese and the Americans had begun to develop their own sophisticated global markets . |
| 28 | The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co-operatives and credit unions . |
| 29 | By the 1880s the mines and foundries , manned by immigrant labour , had begun to outstrip their German rivals in the production of coal and steel . |
| 30 | Everywhere , Perdita seemed to see the emerald-green colours they had chosen to emphasize their Irish origins , which were worn by players , grooms and supporters alike . |