Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [that] [vb past] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sure he knew I could barely contain myself or restrain my trembling fingers that longed to run their tips along the insides of those meaty thighs that were spreadeagled enticingly over the edge of his seat . |
| 2 | Their skills and courage were well tested under South Africa 's apartheid regime , when the Christian Church was one of the few groups that managed to get their voices heard . |
| 3 | Their skills and courage were well tested under South Africa 's apartheid regime , when the Christian Church was one of the few groups that managed to get their voices heard . |
| 4 | ‘ Some businesses that planned to shelve their old computer systems have stuck with them instead , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Never afraid of disturbing cosy arrangements that had outlived their usefulness , McEwan Younger worked single-mindedly for a merger with William Youngers , another family company . |
| 6 | All very fine for them , Hoomey thought , all fat and run to seed , rejoicing in the dreadful honour that had befallen their sons . |
| 7 | Those banks that chose to ditch their exposures to Mexico and Argentina mostly received kudos for doing so . |
| 8 | They were also rejecting the Great American Dream that had gripped their post-war acquisitive parents , who were stocking their homes with every electric device provided in the Fifties consumer boom . |
| 9 | Driven from his home county by the opposition of cotton workers to any machinery that seemed to threaten their livelihoods , Arkwright went to Nottingham and , in partnership with Jedediah Strutt , set up a factory to produce yarn for the knitting industry . |
| 10 | Men might reject the guiding hand of Providence and increasingly take control of their own lives , but death , when it came to them or their loved ones , had the same countenance that had frightened their ancestors . |
| 11 | But if you did n't have an A licence , most firms that had got their own vehicles could get a C licence which allowed them to keep th take their own goods in er er that they used for their own practices to wherever they were going to but did n't y allow you to take anybody else 's . |