Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was noted that most of the ministers from Chatichai 's own Chart Thai party retained their posts in the August reshuffle . |
| 2 | Coun Carr said members retained their reservations about the City Challenge . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They bent their heads under the lintel and stepped inside . |
| 7 | But he also made use of tunes from bourgeois sources — and transformed their meanings in the process . |
| 8 | In the sixth arrondissement , between the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue des Saints-Peres , the Seine and the Luxembourg , about one hundred folk are traced , as they moved their operations from the Flore to the Deux Magots to the Brasserie Lipp or from the brothels of the Rue Gregoire de Tours to the cheap hotels , La Madison and La Lousiane but especially Le Montana . |
| 9 | Traders and craftsmen , who provided goods for the troops and the King 's Court , built their houses on the sloping tail of rock which had been protected from erosion when slowly passing ice sheets had scraped at the valley floor . |
| 10 | It is almost always difficult to discover how these men built their fortunes at the beginning , because they leave no significant mark in the records until they have already made some mark in society . |
| 11 | But , however rapidly the filmmakers who built their reputations during the war may have disillusioned the critics , with their narrow concept of what the nation 's filmmakers should be doing , British filmmakers had reason to be confident in 1945 . |
| 12 | The security situation within Kashmir deteriorated during the latter half of 1989 as militant groups pursued their aims in the face of a state government unable to give any effective response . |
| 13 | Those Brothers who honed their souls aboard the fortress-monastery were by no means the only Imperial Fists . |
| 14 | ‘ We found their bodies on the street corner . |
| 15 | In the early stages of the war for the Caucasus the Russians concentrated their resources in the west . |
| 16 | Harper had been right , they had merely been changing their aim , and now the French gunners concentrated their shots at the centre of the field . |
| 17 | Others went off for extended periods as migrant ( dekasegi ) workers or severed their ties with the land altogether . |
| 18 | Presumably , if the military or industry changed their minds about the utility of this approach they could withdraw from it . |
| 19 | FSLN leaders had been given farms and houses because , the Sandinistas argued , they had sacrificed good salaries for a decade and dedicated their lives to the defence of the country against the US-backed contra rebels . |
| 20 | Others dedicated their projects to the healing of man-damaged nature . |
| 21 | In England George I and George II devoted their energies to the organization and discipline of their army in a way that no Stuart king had ever done . |
| 22 | She did n't find anyone very admirable , had reservations about people who devoted their lives to the care of the sick , and she did n't go ‘ Aah ’ over babies and brides or the Princess of Wales . |
| 23 | The Home Secretary deftly referred their claims to the expert , and non-political , Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders . |
| 24 | Police in riot gear used their powers under the Public Order Act to move on three hundred travellers from Enstone aerodrome … an act which means Police can move on travellers where there are more than twelve vcehicles camped … powers the Home and Office and certain Police forces beleiev are tough enough . |
| 25 | The Syrians used their tanks against the leftists without compunction , but by October they were armed with a weapon far more powerful than their armour : a mandate from the Arab League to enter Beirut as an ‘ Arab Deterrent Force ’ . |
| 26 | Yesterday , illicit smokers were fined for taking a puff as the college was declared a no smoking zone , while more health-conscious students tried their hands at the Clacton Olympics . |
| 27 | In Northern Ireland in 1988 , while 1105 companies were subject to quota legislation , only 298 met their obligations under the Act . |
| 28 | The San José Group of Foreign Ministers of the five Central American countries together with Panama met their counterparts from the 12 European Community ( EC ) member countries in Managua , the Nicaraguan capital , on March 18-19 for the seventh annual meeting on EC-Central American co-operation , which was also attended by the Foreign Ministers of Colombia , Venezuela and Mexico . |
| 29 | The San José Group of Foreign Ministers of the five Central American countries met their counterparts from the 12 European Community ( EC ) countries in Lisbon on Feb. 25-26 for their eighth annual conference , which was also attended by Colombia , Mexico and Venezuela . |
| 30 | They lived their lives to The Beatles , Smokey Robinson , The Beach Boys , The Kinks . |