Example sentences of "it [vb past] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the nation was not at war the social round of the Fields was formidable Olive , it is said , eventually grew tired of Morris Grange so , in 1919 , Norman bought Lartington Hall with its 140 acres of parkland , 3 grouse moors , 3 lakes , 13 farms and most of the cottages in the village , and it became their principal residence for the rest of their lives . |
| 2 | In this sense , the description of themselves as ‘ ordinary ’ was an identity which simultaneously expressed two things : it indicated their own class position , between the extraordinary highly placed and the extraordinarily lowly placed , and at the same time , by its yearning to transcend class identity , it expressed the tensions of that position . |
| 3 | She believes that the emancipation of Soviet women after the 1917 Revolution was a catastrophe because it distorted their feminine psyche and behaviour . |
| 4 | Elsewhere , in the works of Gyorgy Ligeti and Mauricio Kagel , it could question the very bases of musical performance , extending the range of expression and gesture at the same time as it undermined their very validity , and begin to colonise the imprecise border country between theatre , music and performance art . |
| 5 | It exported their manufactured goods . |
| 6 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 7 | This was n't the Dorchester or the Ritz , but it had their ineffable air of serene affluence . |
| 8 | Rulers and governments might well be willing when it suited their own purposes to overlook the difficulties which precedence , titles and formal procedures in general so often caused . |
| 9 | It dragged their small boat for several miles and as it struggled to get free it spat out a human torso , some pieces of wetsuit and a face mask . |
| 10 | It endorsed their growing concern with economic development . |