Example sentences of "and [vb past] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some clients have carpeted their own rooms and got their own curtains and things like that . |
| 2 | as if , in part , to fight back at their crushing fate , the Welsh families in those industrial valleys bred and grew and savoured their own with biblical fruitfulness and devotion . |
| 3 | Their operations began on a modest scale , using a small steam engine to drive two pairs of stones and some ancillary equipment , but so successful were their efforts that they installed two new larger engines and built their own warehouse . |
| 4 | I believe that my own children have rebelled properly and decently , and found their own paths . |
| 5 | And he turned and moved across the dais and out of the studio , followed by his cohort of technicians and production assistants , who thumped him on the back and shouted their own compliments into his receptive ears . |
| 6 | The Germans obliged but , once installed as an occupying force , dismissed the Rada and created their own puppet government . |
| 7 | There entrepreneurs identified the existence of a seller 's market just waiting to be developed , and created their own demand , which gathered its own momentum and benefited from a snowball effect . |
| 8 | Then they quietly washed and dried their own hands and returned to the general room . |
| 9 | Children from secondary schools in Central Region adopted a musician from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and composed their own work , guided by James MacMillan and composer Elaine Agnew , finally performing their pieces with musicians from the orchestra supplied by an enthusiastic audience in November . |
| 10 | They operated food kitchens and community counselling services , raised funds and organized their own picket lines . |
| 11 | He and Crawford got together and organized their own stage act , which included a few of their own songs . |
| 12 | These councillors were not paid for their services and paid their own expenses . |
| 13 | Mr Major insisted that nobody was sent by the Tory Party to take part in last year 's presidential campaign and that two Central Office staff whose trip was funded by the Republicans had gone in their own time and paid their own personal expenses . |
| 14 | They designed and built a new tractor mower and turned their former customers into competitors . |
| 15 | The LNWR remained in the original section of the Saltley Works , where they built and repaired their own rolling stock until 1865 . |
| 16 | The Lyle family took out the lease in 1920 and spent their own money on the restoration of Barrington Court and the creation of the Gertrude Jekyll-inspired gardens , which are only partly on Trust owned land . |
| 17 | Some councillors expressed their deep concern , but declined to comment further ; some promised help and support , and expressed their own outrage at the course of events ; some did n't take the trouble to answer the letter at all , A few of them , however , proceeded to make their own enquiries . |
| 18 | In particular Lester Ward and W. I. Thomas took over themes from Comte and Spencer and developed their own form of biological dogma and social prescription applied to women 's place . |
| 19 | Way I read it , Rico and the Battler got excited and started their own war . |
| 20 | With many of Judah 's people exiled to Babylonia , the Edomites took further advantage of the situation , moved into the southern part of the country , and established their own capital at Hebron . |
| 21 | What was the nature of the former parental relationship with the children , and what impact do these former patterns of interaction have on current relationships , especially when children have left home and established their own families ? |
| 22 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 23 | The occupiers had set up " popular administrations " and established their own armed police forces in December 1989 in response to the alleged electoral fraud practised by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) during the July 1989 municipal elections [ see p. 37274 ] . |
| 24 | The polytechnics faced different local conditions , and established their own different policy priorities . |
| 25 | As word of the dolphin slaughter at Iki spread , international conservation groups became increasingly concerned , and sent their own investigators to gather first-hand reports . |
| 26 | Heriot 's , stronger in the set-piece and sharper on the rare occasions play flowed , scored tries through Cameron Glasgow , Gary Kenhard and Peter Steven and kept their own line intact . |
| 27 | Madreidetic who then also sold data-cubes and stored their own hidden programs within the crystalline lattice . |
| 28 | A few like Hughie Gallacher , the marvellous centre-forward for Newcastle and Scotland in the 1920s , could never adjust to the sudden loss of fame and took their own life . |
| 29 | Other bryozoan colonies are more immediately conspicuous , particularly the stout , twig-like branches of the Palaeozoic trepostomes , which can make up thick limestone beds , and formed their own ‘ reefs ’ , or the large , often net-like colonies of the ‘ fenestrellids ’ common in the Upper Palaeozoic . |
| 30 | Such vertical moves ‘ became a standardized system for technology transfer as employees of large firms with advanced technological knowledge , as well as employees of subcontracting firms , split off and formed their own businesses ’ ( Y. Sato 1984 p.21 ) . |