Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We in Britain owe so much to our American allies , not only for their support during the last war , but also today . |
| 2 | Whether the Halls , who remain the major shareholders with 42pc , will withdraw their support from the Second Division club remains to be seen . |
| 3 | Bury , reformed in Cnut 's reign , and Westminster , patronised by Edward the Confessor , may have gained much of their endowment during the eleventh century , but otherwise the Domesday picture was probably very similar to that which faced Cnut on his accession . |
| 4 | Buddhists with this expectation of Maitri , Jews with their longing for the messianic age , Christians with their hope of the second coming of Christ , can talk together about the golden age ahead — their respective eschatologies , their glimpses of an eternal city , the abiding home of the human spirit . |
| 5 | Their progress over the next two weeks will solve the Guineas mystery , but that is of little concern to connections of Dr Devious , who heads now for the Kentucky Derby ( for which he is 10–1 from 12–1 ) in Louisville on May 2 and returns to Epsom for the Ever Ready Derby in June . |
| 6 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 7 | But their presence in the First Division will mean that every Saturday thirty non-English players will be turning out in the top flight taking up places which should be filled by Englishmen . |
| 8 | Mid-year , they present the strategic thinking for the next edition of their rolling five-year plan , and in November they present the five-year plan itself and their budget for the next year . |
| 9 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 10 | This proved sufficient until the reign of Charles I. He was one of ‘ the sticklers in the last Parliament ’ pricked sheriff in 1625 to prevent their election to the next ( although he was able to secure that of his son for New Shoreham ) , and in the following summer he was removed from the Sussex commission of the peace , to which he had been appointed only in 1624 . |
| 11 | MALONE opened their defence of the First Trust Senior Cup with an easy victory over North at Ormeau yesterday . |
| 12 | Here , within three minutes , Mark Bailey had rounded their defence for the first of his side 's dozen tries . |
| 13 | Mr. Wakeham : In their response to the second special report from the House of Commons Select Committee on European Legislation , Session 1985–86 , the Government reaffirmed that they would endeavour to bring forward documents for debate at the earliest appropriate opportunity . |
| 14 | WALES , the Soviet Union and West Germany are three new nations making their debut at the 15th Hong Kong Sevens , to be staged from 31 March to 1 April next year . |
| 15 | Greig was gracious in defeat , saying that their play on the first day deserved every credit . |
| 16 | And er a further er fly in the ointment , if one could put it that way , will be of course with the erm the local hospital whose site is just off this er the key plan provided , their decision from the first of next month to actually charge for spaces within their area , which of course will have a further effect of decanting even more cars into neighbouring streets and thus put pressure on some of the streets which hitherto have not benefited from ah residents ' parking so there will be further er obviously further requests from er from those residents of neighbouring streets . |
| 17 | Research shows that interviewers will make a visual impression which influences their decision within the first 45 seconds . |
| 18 | Research shows that interviewers will make a visual impression which influences their decision within the first 45 seconds . |
| 19 | Julia , who called off their wedding at the last minute a year ago , was recently in Ireland with new lover Jason Patric . |
| 20 | all of our paid fors have er , done very well this year in circulation terms all but two of them have increased their circulation in the first half , despite quite high price rises , for instance the York county newspaper , the weekly there , we have a daily but the weekly there went up by five P and the weekly in Bath where again we have a daily that went up by six P . |
| 21 | When Dulé and his companions regained the beach , they were so stunned and wearied by the water and the flames , the howling and frantic clangour of their rout , that they dragged themselves and their boat to the first cover they could find , and lay face down against the earth ; they could sense it trembling as if it were an animal alive beneath them . |
| 22 | EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes and companion Dr Michael Stroud were almost halfway to the South Pole yesterday in their attempt at the first unaided crossing of Antarctica . |
| 23 | Yes Please ’ and problems within the Mondays taking their toll over the last year-and-a-half . |
| 24 | American and Britain are partly responsible for the way the Russians are now cos we finance most of their industry in the second World War |
| 25 | Six Welsh officials and 10 players made the trip , many changing their mind at the last minute . |
| 26 | She 's been visiting the Compton family who have been without their car for the last two months . |
| 27 | Most Dissenters decided to rally behind the bishops in their opposition to the second Declaration of Indulgence , proclaiming that they wanted " liberty by law " . |
| 28 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 29 | This is the more paradoxical as Soviet leaders have expressed their readiness since the Twenty-Sixth Soviet Party Congress in February 1981 to discuss issues linked with the international aspects of the Afghan problem in connection with questions on the security of the Persian Gulf . |
| 30 | Instead , he had been answering a barrage of questions from an invited audience of supporters , who passionately implored the amiable Irishman to guide their side into the Fourth Division . |