Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt it was very vexatious to Lanfranc , especially since he doubted whether their so-called saints deserved this title at all . |
| 2 | The men winced as their bare feet touched the plaster and Owen could feel the heat even through the soles of his shoes . |
| 3 | But anything which seemed to offer a challenge to what they regarded as their rightful status was certain to cause resentment . |
| 4 | My view was that people wanted what they regarded as their own pension and my aim was to ensure an expansion in provision . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Ferrari 's Formula One hopes were hit last night circuit made a stuttering start on Wednesday when the Italian team unveiled when their new car was crippled by engine trouble . |
| 9 | Two soldiers of the Queen 's Own Hussars drowned and two escaped when their Chieftan tank rolled over into a canal at Hohne in West Germany on November 27 . |
| 10 | Their one major problem started when their 19-year-old son was diagnosed as having schizophrenia . |
| 11 | How the hell do you think they felt when their darling Hilary was too busy to go out for her brother 's wedding ? ’ |
| 12 | Tragedy strikes FOOTBALL : Romanian first division players Gabriel Nastase and Bogdan Banuta died when their Inter Sibiu club coach crashed on the way to a league game at Gloria Bistrita yesterday . |
| 13 | The women died when their hired Astra crashed into the back of an army convoy coming back from a show in the early hours . |
| 14 | A HUSBAND and wife died when their hired plane crashed in dense forest last night . |
| 15 | He also recorded his suspicions that those paupers who had gone to prison were now wearing clothes belonging to the workhouse , and enquired whether their own clothes should be sent to them . |
| 16 | Ashley waited until their fellow diners had drifted away to explore the gardens or dip their hands in the cool water which tinkled in the stone fountains , and then moved her chair closer to her escort 's . |
| 17 | As Lexandro donned a cuirass and strapped greaves to his shanks , he wondered whether their soon-to-be opponents were genuinely members of some feral tribe transported here for purposes such as this ? |
| 18 | Younger Palestinians — Palestinians who were born in Lebanon , for example — can remember how their parents angrily threw the keys away in the early 1950s , how the documents that were guarded with such care in the initial days of exile were mislaid or destroyed as their true meaning became clear ; because they proved ownership of a world that had disappeared . |