Example sentences of "[vb pp] their [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most notorious of those centred on an incident in December 1982 when two unarmed members of the Republican paramilitary organisation , the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) , were shot dead after police officers had stopped their car on the edge of Armagh . |
| 2 | In the Amazon , the numbers of Indians declined , ceasing to be a threat to western expansion , so that by the second half of the last century , they were becoming more of a curiosity , regarded as anachronistic impediments to progress , which had to be educated on Christian lines on the one hand , the true lords of the territory to be given their freedom on the other . |
| 3 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
| 4 | They have imposed their will on the House . |
| 5 | Certainly these two had made their mark on the ever-widening fields of botany and horticulture when John Bartram wrote his first letter to Philip Miller on 20 April 1755 : |
| 6 | Ferguson accompanied the European Ryder Cup team as Colin Montgomery 's personal guru to Kiawah Island last year and has groomed many leading amateurs , several of whom who have made their mark on the European professional circuit . |
| 7 | Alas , many others had already made their judgment on the flimsy evidence of that supposed phone call … and had found the next King guilty . |
| 8 | They 've got their finger on the pulse all right . |
| 9 | The ones that have got their , Shirley and Terry that have got their house on the market ? |
| 10 | Well we 've had their director on the phone , phone yesterday and more or less demanded his twenty thousand back |
| 11 | Detainees in Nylstroom said they had been offered their release on the condition that they agreed to become police informers . |
| 12 | When they reached port and had sold their catch on the market , radio-activity was discovered all over ship , crew and catch . |
| 13 | Thus , natural justice has been held to be applicable to cases of disciplinary action within a university and to expulsion for failure in examinations , although in the latter case the examiners had based their decision on the personal attributes of the candidate as well as exam marks . |
| 14 | Only two out of 15 well-known media pundits , whose outspoken role in the campaign Bush has ridiculed , have staked their reputation on the President winning a second term . |
| 15 | Another line of attack has been that of some psychologists who have concentrated their fire on the question whether the type of experimental procedure designed to produce associative learning in Aplysia can ‘ really ’ be said to fulfil the conditions required for classical conditioning . |
| 16 | I once watched a television documentary about St Kilda , during which they interviewed some of the few people living who had been born and had spent their youth on the island . |
| 17 | They have dumped their rubbish on the cheap in the East for years . |
| 18 | The Greens have stolen their fire on the left . |
| 19 | Then she remembered the car that had interrupted their dinner on the terrace . |
| 20 | Earlier on , the band had proved their worth on the college snooker table — much to the dismay of the Students ' Union security staff , who obviously feared for the state of the green baize — and drummer Steve Goodwin showed a ruthless streak on the pinball machine . |
| 21 | Earlier on , the band had proved their worth on the college snooker table — much to the dismay of the Students ' Union security staff , who obviously feared for the state of the green baize — and drummer Steve Goodwin showed a ruthless streak on the pinball machine . |
| 22 | The practical nature of this course has meant that even past graduates in textile design have found their year on the machine knitting business course invaluable in further developing their chosen specialisation in fashion knitwear . |
| 23 | Just in case the sea cadets trained their gun on the river . |
| 24 | The Whites might have increased their lead on the restart from Totten 's corner but a combination of Dunne and Kavanagh cleared Mitchell 's header off the goal line . |
| 25 | The Liberal Democrats may have wasted their money on the personality cult of Paddy Ashdown , but he is certainly not a negative factor as far as the forgiving women of Richmond are concerned . |
| 26 | This section will be a brief summary of other influences which have left their mark on the drama education scene . |
| 27 | Roofing , after all , is as much an art as a science and centuries of artistic creativity have left their mark on the tile makers of the continent . |
| 28 | Who 's left their hat on the fire top ? |
| 29 | Fighting continued around Sarajevo , Bihac and Goradze and in various areas of northern Bosnia-Hercegovina , while in the south Bosnian Croatians consolidated their hold on the area they had named the Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosna [ see p. 39012 ] . |
| 30 | He said that he respected the views of his colleagues at SO , but added that they obviously had taken their decision on the information they had , while the SSO was still in the process of getting information from the management about the proposal . |