Example sentences of "[noun] [that] they [vb past] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in 1863 at the farmhouse at Camerone in Mexico that they had fought their most spectacular action . |
| 2 | In the same article , art historian Mina Gregori said of Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ at Parma that they had lost their Romanesque contours and were now quite indistinguishable ; later she wrote that : ‘ Antelami 's ‘ Months ’ are now ruined : unsightly puppets robbed of their Romanesque contours ’ . |
| 3 | It also alters the definition of what amounts to distribution , so that members of racist organisations can no longer shelter behind the plea that they intended to circulate their seditious material amongst their own number . |
| 4 | Debtors who showed the courts that they had made their best efforts to pay , and also showed they were not fraudulent or reckless in incurring debt could be given relief from liabilities after three years . |
| 5 | The newly-established Ecological Left/Alternative List is to be led by Jutta Ditfurth , who denounced the mainstream Greens on the basis that they had rejected their ecological and socialist origins . |
| 6 | The judge , a Jockey Club member , told a news conference that they had reached their conclusion after studying hours of video tape of the race . |
| 7 | The man remarked to his wife that they had to make their way towards a particular church and that , once they had found that particular building , they would be almost on their friends ' doorstep . |
| 8 | The ponies , who always had an uncanny knowledge that they 'd reached their destination , were stamping and scraping the floor in the back . |
| 9 | THE ROW over the closure of Strathclyde outdoor centres worsened yesterday when an education official admitted that teachers at one centre had been given only eight days ' warning that they faced losing their posts . |
| 10 | Although Reed and Random House discussed the possibility of a publishing joint venture , Ingrid Selberg of Reed and Piet Snyman of RH decided in the end that they wanted to go their separate ways . |
| 11 | The two reportedly denied reports that they had left their London hotel to attend the Palestine National Council ( PNC ) meeting in Algiers in September [ see pp. 38453-54 ] , and the PLO news agency Wafa on Sept. 26 said that they had not attended the PLO meeting in person , but had sent a message which was read out to the political committee . |
| 12 | Meanwhile reports in mid-June 1990 indicated that Mauritania was continuing to deport large numbers of its black population on the grounds that they had obtained their nationality fraudulently . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that they had stopped their car , neither of the Shepherds seemed to care how she was , or whether she had done herself any harm sleep-walking up to the Monument . |