Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals . |
| 2 | Far from being a divisive arrival at the NME , the elder members of the NME staff were , according to Parsons , ‘ almost loving ’ towards the new punk writers , despite Parsons ' and Burchill 's reputations for being surly and unapproachable — it was , after all , they who smothered their corner of the NME office with barbed wire ! |
| 3 | WHILE Swansea maintained their position at the head of the Heineken League 's Division One with a comfortable 23–4 win over bottom club Maesteg , Llanelli stayed in touch , one point behind , by beating Cardiff 22–6 . |
| 4 | The Inspectorate maintained their attack on the ‘ unacceptable variety ’ of curricular provision in their Aspects of Secondary Education ( 1979 ) and again in A View of the Curriculum ( 1980 ) . |
| 5 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 6 | Struggling in the set-pieces , Scotland maintained their challenge through the superb play of the loose forwards , especially Rob Wainwright . |
| 7 | ROUND the world yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson and his crew were off the southern coast of Brazil yesterday as they maintained their challenge for the Jules Verne Trophy . |
| 8 | SHILDON Strollers retained their leadership of the Durham Second Division at a canter when a weakened Wingate failed to offer any real threat despite the incentive of moving into third place with a win that would have toppled the home team from the No 1 spot . |
| 9 | The CDU , led by the apparently undynamic Helmut Kohl , increased their vote to nearly 49 per cent and this restored their leading position in the country , but the SPD ( 43 per cent ) and FDP ( 8 per cent ) retained their majority in the Bundestag . |
| 10 | It was noted that most of the ministers from Chatichai 's own Chart Thai party retained their posts in the August reshuffle . |
| 11 | After Adelaide , Bodyline was not exploited with quite the same intensity , but the crowds retained their fury at the mere sight of a ‘ bumper ’ . |
| 12 | The great transitions of life — birth , marriage and death — retained their power over the imagination , and the rituals around these are all that have kept many churches functioning . |
| 13 | Inverleith retained their place in the top flight with a dramatic 7-6 victory over Touche Ross in the final game . |
| 14 | Coun Carr said members retained their reservations about the City Challenge . |
| 15 | In the Berne elections on April 29 , 1990 , the coalition parties retained their domination of the grand council . |
| 16 | Distant , forested hills to the left and smaller hills on the right contributed their surges to the surface of the countryside , and these undulations across the land ran under the roadway like energy cables , sapping the strength from the legs . |
| 17 | The demonstrators bluffed their way into the headquarters of Anglian Water , in the Prime Minister John Major 's constituency town of Huntingdon , Cambridgeshire , by walking in behind staff with security cards . |
| 18 | The ten demonstrators bluffed their way into the headquarters of Anglian Water , in Huntingdon , Cambridgeshire ( the constituency of the Prime Minister , John Major ) , by walking in behind staff with security cards . |
| 19 | The two women , one tall , middle-aged and handsome , the other smaller , younger and compact , wove their way amongst the debris of cups and chairs which littered the grass . |
| 20 | Constantine , late in his reign , demolished some temples and confiscated their estates throughout the empire , in-corporating them into the res privata , but keeping their accounts in a special category as fundi iuris templorum . |
| 21 | The shadow social security secretary , Donald Dewar , and Labour 's Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , described their anger at the worsening situation when unveiling a rolling campaign aimed at highlighting the rising level of poverty across Scotland . |
| 22 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 23 | In a letter to The Scotsman , Mr Gibson , Mr Chalmers , Roseanna Cunningham , Fiona Hyslop , Anne McNair and Nicola Sturgeon underlined their acceptance of the outcome of the executive meeting . |
| 24 | A charge of magic bigger than he had ever seen was building up ; when he moved , in painful slow motion , his limbs left trails of golden sparks that traced their shape in the air . |
| 25 | We may usefully draw an analogy here with the women 's movement in which it soon became apparent that if the real extent and nature of sexual oppression were to be understood , and services appropriate to real needs struggled for , feminist psychologies which recognised the individual consequences of collective oppression , and traced their causes beyond the individual to the mechanisms of that oppression , would have to be developed . |
| 26 | They bent their heads under the lintel and stepped inside . |
| 27 | It was Corrary who pointed , and drew their gaze to the dark shadow on the water . |
| 28 | Whether they want to go or not , they take their turn and the employer had to pay a percentage into the pool what those men earned , so when those men had n't work at all they drew their money from the National Dock Labour Board . |
| 29 | ‘ In the main , the church and its leaders drew their importance from the support they gave to the existing powers and from their multiple involvements in education , social welfare and administration . ’ |
| 30 | It drew their attention to the fact that some of their clients may have a hearing problem without expressly saying so . |