Example sentences of "was [verb] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their lot was to nuzzle their way across the sea bottom , sucking up mud and refuse through their simple circular mouths , filtering out the edible particles and expelling the rest through the slits on either side of their throats . |
| 2 | They had this in common : each knew what it was to kill their father : knew the reality of it in their bones . |
| 3 | Many students felt Deng was on their side , for they were not politically sophisticated enough to realise that he was using their movement to attack his opponents and thereby strengthen his own position . |
| 4 | Maclean realized that their only chance was to bluff their way out of the situation , so they set off for the main gate . |
| 5 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |
| 6 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |
| 7 | The easter treat for the rugby folk of Gloucester was to see their team taking on and beating the Italian side Benneton Treviso … who boasted 14 internationals and some of the best players in the world |
| 8 | Vass was gathering their bags from the car boot and leading Lisa and a wide-eyed Emily across a courtyard to the front door of the house . |
| 9 | Grace , who was purling in the front circle , gathered he was drawing their attention to the war and the number of dead and maimed . |
| 10 | Much of Hollywood 's mass audience would have been oblivious to this but intelligent and respectable film-goers must have been very aware that society was shaping their film-going . |
| 11 | Oh you would have liked the dog what er was a woman outside , they was eating their things outside cos they 'd got a dog |
| 12 | And then they was eating their supper so just want another piece of bread , and they 'd nearly finished the tape . |
| 13 | This was due entirely to the ferocious efforts of Gloucester , no lovers of Bath , whose idea of a welcome last month was to treat their visitors rather like a doormat . |
| 14 | He was enjoying their company . |
| 15 | If so , it could explain why he had waited so long for her , and why , now they had met again , he was handling their relationship so very carefully . |
| 16 | Administrators also reacted with less than a becoming degree of sympathy to the problems of neighbouring agricultural peoples whose population was outstripping their resources in land . |
| 17 | It was claimed their daughters were taken to the barn for sex after a pub night out with Harper and his friends , Wisdom Smith and Daniel Winter , both 19 . |
| 18 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 19 | After a flattering introduction , culled from Grunte 's CV ( which he , in turn , had written for Conservative Central Office ) , Grunte said how delighted he was to accept their kind invitation . |
| 20 | A coward because he did not have the courage to tell Nicola that he was ending their affair , or a liar because he made a false promise to his wife to give up his young lover . |
| 21 | The UK government has abandoned proposals to draw up a register of contaminated land , after sustained criticism from property developers , who argued that it was prejudicing their activities . |
| 22 | This was used as one of the major defences of the British aid programme in Nepal which was to concentrate their efforts in villages with a predominant presence of ex-Gurkha soldiers which would encourage both better rapport between British field officers and farmers , as well as an ( ex- ) army-style sense of organisation , discipline and work-practice within the village itself . |
| 23 | What diversifiers should have done instead , reckons Mr Chandler ( a point on which he is in wholehearted agreement with folk such as Mr Peters ) , was to concentrate their resources on ‘ reinventing ’ their existing businesses . |
| 24 | Other churches were complaining , he was poaching their kids . |
| 25 | The intention was to consolidate their powerlessness . |
| 26 | When Petion returned , Ace had brought out from the TARDIS the four Vickers guns that she had liberated from the palace armoury , and was checking their actions for signs of wear or damage . |
| 27 | On a recent occasion , he was forced to shop in the local supermarket unaccompanied by his lovely wife Mary , who was keeping their children quiet by the exciting new pindown method . |
| 28 | The result was to hide their variety . |
| 29 | James 's advisers , especially churchmen who feared that one of Henry 's main motives was to coax their king towards Protestantism and an anti-French alliance , warned against any venture on to English soil . |
| 30 | Given all these considerations , some supposedly empirical , but others more clearly normative , Schumpeter concluded that the proper role of the people was to choose their rulers through competitive elections , and then leave them to get on with the business of governing . |