Example sentences of "[vb pp] their [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | Before long the Parachute Regiment had added their name to the backers . |
| 9 | In so doing , they will have added their mite to the expansion of one of Europe 's most unusual and successful financial groups . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yesterday , the EC announced that Kemira and the other British fertiliser manufacturers had won their case against the Russians . |
| 13 | Yesterday , the EC announced that Kemira and the other British fertiliser manufacturers had won their case against the Russians . |
| 14 | Yesterday the EC announced that Kemira and the other British fertiliser manufacturers had won their case against the Russians . |
| 15 | Have parked their hearse outside the jewellers . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 20 | She says , ‘ How am I going to get round all these people phoning me up saying , ‘ Why am I not getting calls , it 's all your fault ’ , you know , all the rest of it ’ , when they have n't diverted their telephone to the right extension number . |
| 21 | should now have received their list for the next two months . |
| 22 | The children here were all considered old enough by their parents to understand a sympathetic explanation of the grounds on which the Reporter had referred their case to the Children 's Panel . |
| 23 | Some of these recordings are now being used by the YCCC as evidence in the legal actions which they are taking out against the city and tannery , and some of the recordings have been played back to other community groups in similar situations but who have not developed their thinking to the extent of the YCCC . |
| 24 | The bridges , they say , have not been painted regularly and this penny-pinching has exposed their steelwork to the corroding effects of salt , pollution , water and debris . |
| 25 | Repeal feminists justified their entry into the political arena on the grounds that the issues raised by the acts touched on all the great trusts of their womanhood — the questions of virtue , purity , decency and social welfare . |
| 26 | The Picts are said to have fiercely resented their subjection to the Saxons and attacked Ecgfrith who defeated them with the help of his sub-king ( subregulus ) , Beornhaeth ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 19 ) , probably between the Avon and the Carron ( in Manau of the Gododdin ) . |
| 27 | Having grown up with Cortot 's early 78rpm sets of Chopin , I have deeply resented their absence from the catalogue for so many years . |
| 28 | Cleo had never , to her knowledge , seen a ghost , although she had often sensed their presence in the shadowed , tragedy-haunted alleys of the Burrows . |
| 29 | For 150 years , police have regarded their job as the control of crime and criminals , of coping with social deviancy . |
| 30 | An Estonian history professor , Arnold Palm , said Balts regarded their status within the Soviet Union as ‘ political , not juridical ’ , and ‘ by no means definitely established ’ . |