Example sentences of "[vb pp] their [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He feels that it is because he has a high ethical and moral standard in his approach to sacred sites that he has earned their trust over the years . |
| 2 | When she came back , with a tray in her hands , they had installed their patient by the fire in a deep chair , and peeled the soggy , wet jacket from him . |
| 3 | But his career-defining Working ( 1970 ) was a plenteous ethnography : white-and blue-collar workers ventilated their discontent with the monotony of their jobs and the narrow satisfactions they offered . |
| 4 | Hecataeus ended his excursus by noticing , in conformity with a well-known pattern of Greek ethnography , that the Jews had modified their customs under the influence of Persian and Macedonian rule . |
| 5 | Under President Lee Teng-hui 's political reform programme , all " senior " members had resigned their seats by the end of 1991 [ see p. 38679 ] . |
| 6 | They had not confined their work to the schemes the judges selected , but looked at the remainder of the exhibition , and added eight of their own choice . |
| 7 | All these rulers , however , with the exception of the King of Bavaria , confined their greetings to the minimum demanded by courtesy , indicating how far anti-French attitudes had developed since 1860 . |
| 8 | We can certainly agree that political sociologists have not confined their attention to the narrower governmental sphere or believed that this constitutes a part ( albeit an important part ) of the world of politics . |
| 9 | The fact that the thieves confined their attention to the Early Cycladic display case , ignoring many other important works , suggests that they may have been stealing to order something which is a matter of concern to museum staff and archaeologists in Greece . |
| 10 | They were both excused their debts by the creditor . |
| 11 | Danov said : " I certainly assume that Zhivkov and some other people in his government who have paraded their innocence in the last few years will be indicted . " |
| 12 | Before long the Parachute Regiment had added their name to the backers . |
| 13 | In so doing , they will have added their mite to the expansion of one of Europe 's most unusual and successful financial groups . |
| 14 | All the teams have won their division of the Sundrige this season , and six will be doing battle in the top flight of their respective regions next year . |
| 15 | He and his four fellow sixth formers at Barnard Castle School have won their way to the regional final of a music contest in Newcastle . |
| 16 | Yesterday , the EC announced that Kemira and the other British fertiliser manufacturers had won their case against the Russians . |
| 17 | Yesterday , the EC announced that Kemira and the other British fertiliser manufacturers had won their case against the Russians . |
| 18 | Yesterday the EC announced that Kemira and the other British fertiliser manufacturers had won their case against the Russians . |
| 19 | But this support evaporated once deputies had won their seats in the Majlis ( parliament ) on a pro-Rafsanjani platform . |
| 20 | Having won their votes from the gullible , as well as the dedicated , the republicans now show their utter contempt for democracy . |
| 21 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 22 | Yet the time may come when the unions will have expiated their follies of the sixties and seventies , partly through the rationalisation and mergers of the past decade , partly through reforms forced on them by changes in the law during the eighties , partly by a public rediscovery that trade unions are a necessary part of a free society . |
| 23 | Have parked their hearse outside the jewellers . |
| 24 | The majority of people that went through that service all had some recollection of things they did n't enjoy very much but they by and large thoroughly enjoyed their experience in the Army , it livened them up , it made them better men and we have got after all one of the best armies if not the best army in the world , it 's got to come from |
| 25 | The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen . |
| 26 | Where had they all gone , those extraordinary skinny left-wing men , who had bullied their girl-friends into the Women 's Movement and been surprised when the hand with which they had so kindly offered freedom had been bitten so damn hard ? |
| 27 | No word had come from Rose , and surely she would have cancelled their arrangements at the least hint of scandal ? |
| 28 | He and his partner , Gary Armstrong , playing together in a major international for the 25th time , plus a few other Scots , must have booked their places on the forthcoming British Lions tour to New Zealand . |
| 29 | Sudbury , who have already booked their place in the Spicers Eastern Counties Cup final , are currently sitting three points clear of second-placed London Welsh with just two rounds of matches to play . |
| 30 | And while Black Dwarf staff might have protested their separateness from the two underground papers , readers in London , and students and hippies elsewhere , would not . |