Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals . |
| 2 | WHILE Swansea maintained their position at the head of the Heineken League 's Division One with a comfortable 23–4 win over bottom club Maesteg , Llanelli stayed in touch , one point behind , by beating Cardiff 22–6 . |
| 3 | The great transitions of life — birth , marriage and death — retained their power over the imagination , and the rituals around these are all that have kept many churches functioning . |
| 4 | The two women , one tall , middle-aged and handsome , the other smaller , younger and compact , wove their way amongst the debris of cups and chairs which littered the grass . |
| 5 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 6 | In a letter to The Scotsman , Mr Gibson , Mr Chalmers , Roseanna Cunningham , Fiona Hyslop , Anne McNair and Nicola Sturgeon underlined their acceptance of the outcome of the executive meeting . |
| 7 | A charge of magic bigger than he had ever seen was building up ; when he moved , in painful slow motion , his limbs left trails of golden sparks that traced their shape in the air . |
| 8 | ‘ In the main , the church and its leaders drew their importance from the support they gave to the existing powers and from their multiple involvements in education , social welfare and administration . ’ |
| 9 | He drew their attention to the route map on the opposite wall and set them to counting how long it took between stops , a favourite exercise that was considered by the twins to be the height of intellectual prowess but risked serious brain damage to everyone within hearing distance . |
| 10 | It drew their attention to the fact that some of their clients may have a hearing problem without expressly saying so . |
| 11 | Oxford police recently reported their concern to the city 's magistrates and their determination to crack down . |
| 12 | All worked prodigious hours ( ‘ Charles , eez 's nairver at 'ome ’ was the frequent complaint of Powell 's sprightly Italian wife ) , which reinforced their remoteness from the rest of the world . |
| 13 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |
| 14 | Well , when you release you have to do it in stages , so when we introduced the owls to their new home from the aviary we limited their freedom to the box itself at first . |
| 15 | In that case , the " open justice " principle did not prevail over property rights in the documents and the rule which limited their use to the action itself . |
| 16 | But none of these party heavyweights have , so far , found their way down the road to Alton . |
| 17 | The fate of the Indian diamonds which found their way to the court of France was less assured . |
| 18 | Every one of the 364 items which found their way to the museum after the war is still there , intact . |
| 19 | They found their way to the Railway Station and the train back to New York and all the while , Mick O'Neil was fulminating against the unfairness of the universe , particularly as it related to Detroit in the last five minutes of the game . |
| 20 | British subjects who were too old or otherwise unsuitable for active service found their way to the Pioneer Corps . |
| 21 | Many anecdotes of this kind were repeated in Montparnasse and they found their way to the Zborowskis , who were struggling themselves . |
| 22 | All sorts of people got fees for services of many types , not all of which found their way into the survey . |
| 23 | Two of the supposedly confidential papers before the December meeting of Council quickly found their way into the press . |
| 24 | The ash-fall from a typical Vesuvian eruption rarely causes casualties , but it did cause problems during the most recent eruption in 1944 , when Allied airfields in the Naples area were carpeted with ash , making the runways temporarily unusable , and gritty particles found their way into the air intakes of aircraft flying in the area . |
| 25 | When petitions from such families found their way into the Chancery with some frequency , the Chancellor came to recognise that the conscience of the grantee was bound … |
| 26 | As we have already seen , none of the demands of the radical Whigs found their way into the Declaration . |
| 27 | Had the poachers been chased and found their way into the house ? |
| 28 | It seems certain that they first found their way from the Creole of the first generation Caribbean migrants into the LE of the second generation , where they occur very frequently . |
| 29 | Bassetja is the name of the mare which carries the Maxwell hopes and those of the Ballee Racing Syndicate who sank their money into the investment earlier this year . |
| 30 | FISHING pals John Armstrong , 52 , and James Scrimgeour , 62 , drowned when a freak wave sank their boat near the shore at Cresswell , Tyneside . |