Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [conj] [pron] [vb past] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other parents complained that he hurt their children and these complaints made the staff feel challenged and uneasy . |
| 2 | The gilding on the st'lyan 's horns glittered as they tossed their heads . |
| 3 | Periodic evaluations of their physical and mental health , personalities , and intellectual achievements showed that they maintained their superiority in all of these domains , including a relative freedom from insanity and other indications of psychological maladjustment . |
| 4 | One of the cows mooed as she passed their field . |
| 5 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 6 | In the kitchens women bakers seethed as they watched their male colleagues lift dough trays into the ovens , the lifting warranting a third more pay than the women . |