Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found their bedroom the hardest room to decorate in the new style . |
| 2 | And the police , disregarding the reds , heads , freaks , revolution , and rock at the front of the paper , made their target the gay contact personal ads at the back . |
| 3 | Stories abound of how the Whitley crews learnt their trade the hard way . |
| 4 | In the silence that followed their departure the muffled movements of the other occupants of the house became surprisingly audible . |
| 5 | Some discussion of funerary monuments is included in this chapter ; although today we may consider these private , many Romans evidently thought that the more people saw their memorial the better . |
| 6 | They earned their promotion the hard way . |
| 7 | They spent that evening at the Cistercian monastery of Melrose and continued their journey the following morning . |
| 8 | It is no accident that certain adjectives which can appear as postnominal , but not prenominal , attributives do also appear in predicative position , while , on the other hand , certain adjectives which only occur prenominally can not stand as predicatives : ( 33 ) the robber was asleep not noticing the robber asleep , they missed their revenge the asleep robber ( 34 ) their proposals are sheer lunacy their lunacy is sheer lunacy sheer of this sort is unsurprising |